Ennismore Foundation

The Ennismore Foundation is a UK-based grant-making charity (number 1082122) governed by three trustees who exercise absolute discretion over funds for any charitable purpose, as defined in its broadly permissive governing document. Established without a public founding vision or named founder, it maintains a generalist approach with no articulated mission, values, strategic priorities, or evolving focus, distinguishing it from similarly named entities like Ennismore Fund Management or The Ennismore Charitable Trust. Its enduring characteristic is flexibility, enabling support across diverse causes without thematic, geographic, or beneficiary constraints.

The foundation funds any charitable activity at trustee discretion, potentially including projects, core costs, capital, capacity building, or unrestricted grants, with no stated preferences for specific causes, interventions, programmes, or communities. Financial records show annual grant expenditure of £163,000–£530,000, but no breakdowns of recipients, grant types, or impact are published.

Eligibility is unrestricted: no criteria for legal entities, organisation size, income levels, or geographic base, with operations spanning England and open to any location. It does not accept unsolicited applications, publish guidance, deadlines, or funding rounds—decisions occur solely via private trustee processes without applicant input or schedules.

Key exclusions include no support for non-charitable purposes; its opaque, discretionary model differentiates it as ideal for charities approaching generalist trusts with minimal expectations, though lack of transparency limits predictability compared to strategy-driven funders.