Racial Equality & Ethnic Minorities159+ Funders

Racial Equality & Ethnic Minorities Grants & Funding

There are 159 UK funders offering grants for racial equality & ethnic minorities charities, with typical awards from £200 to £5,000,000.

Funding for racial equality and ethnic minority-led organisations has grown significantly since 2020, though the sector remains underfunded relative to need. Trusts and foundations support a range of work: anti-racism education, cultural heritage preservation, refugee and migrant integration, employment support, health equity, and advocacy for policy change. Major funders such as the Barrow Cadbury Trust, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, and Esmee Fairbairn Foundation have dedicated racial justice funding streams. The National Lottery Community Fund supports ethnic minority-led community organisations. Several newer funds have emerged specifically to address the funding gap for Black, Asian, and minority ethnic-led organisations, which historically receive a disproportionately small share of charitable funding. Grants support both frontline services — language support, immigration advice, cultural programmes — and capacity building for organisations led by people from ethnic minority backgrounds. Funders in this space value lived experience leadership, community-led approaches, and projects that address structural racism rather than treating its symptoms.

Quick Stats

Total Funders
159
Grant Range
£200 - £5,000,000
Open to Applications
42%

Racial Equality & Ethnic Minorities Funders

159 funders found

38 Degrees Trust

38 Degrees Trust, a registered charity and charitable company (number 1139325) established on 13 October 2009 in England and Wales, aims to make the U...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £30,000

a and R Woolf Charitable Trust

The A and R Woolf Charitable Trust, established in 1977 and governed by three trustees, is a modest UK-based funder dedicated to advancing general cha...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £15,000

A B Charitable Trust

Open

The A B Charitable Trust, established in 1990 by Yves and Anne Bonavero, is an independent UK grant-maker guided by a family-led board committed to ch...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £30,000

Access - The Foundation for Social Investment

Open

Access – The Foundation for Social Investment drives systemic transformation in the social investment market, empowering charities and social enterpri...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Access to Justice Foundation

Open

The Access to Justice Foundation is a UK-wide charity founded by the legal profession with the singular mission of enhancing access to free legal advi...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £50,000

Alan and Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund

The Alan and Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund (ABS), established in 1953 by Lord Alan Sainsbury as the oldest Sainsbury Family Charitable Trust, adva...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £40,000

All Ways Network

All Ways Network (AWN) is a UK-registered charity and the UK's only cross-sector membership network dedicated to empowering small not-for-profits serv...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Allen Lane Foundation

Open

The Allen Lane Foundation, an independent grant-making trust established in 1966 by Sir Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, champions progressive UK...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £6,000

Amjad and Suha Bseisu Foundation

The Amjad and Suha Bseisu Foundation, established in 2005 by Amjad and Suha Bseisu—first- and second-generation refugees—empowers young people and dis...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £63,000

Armenian Relief Society of Great Britain Trust

The Armenian Relief Society of Great Britain Trust, established in London in 1982 as a branch of the international Armenian Relief Society founded in ...

Grant Range
£500 - £5,000

Article 11 Trust

The Article 11 Trust, founded in 2020 by members of UK protest rights groups like Netpol, is a specialist charitable organisation dedicated to defendi...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £25,000

Assist Sheffield

Assist Sheffield is a Sheffield-rooted charity established in 2003, dedicated to supporting destitute asylum seekers whose claims have been refused, l...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Asylum Welcome

Asylum Welcome is an independent Oxfordshire-based charity established in 1996, with roots in early 1990s grassroots efforts to support refugees and i...

Grant Range
Contact funder

At Home Foundation

At Home Foundation, a UK charity (no. 1199629) established in July 2022, supports newly arrived immigrants—especially young people from Hong Kong and ...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Baring Foundation

Open

The Baring Foundation, an independent London-based charitable foundation established in 1969 as Barings Bank's corporate arm and fully independent sin...

Grant Range
£20,000 - £90,000

Barking and Dagenham Giving

Open

Barking and Dagenham Giving is a place-based funder dedicated to tackling deprivation, inequality, and limited opportunity in one of England's most di...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £10,000

Barrow Cadbury Trust

Open

The Barrow Cadbury Trust, an independent endowed charitable foundation established in 1920 by Quaker philanthropist Barrow Cadbury and his wife Gerald...

Grant Range
£3,000 - £25,000

Beatrice Gilmore Charitable Trust

Open

The Beatrice Gilmore Charitable Trust, established in 2022 as a UK grant-making charity from the estate of Bernie O’Neill in honour of her mother, Bea...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £15,000

Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust

The Bernard Lewis Family Charitable Trust, established in 2008 by Bernard Lewis, founder of the River Island fashion brand, is an independent UK-regis...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £1,000,000

Birmingham City Council

Open

Birmingham City Council, the local authority for the UK's second-largest city established in the nineteenth century, serves its 1.1 million residents ...

Grant Range
£200 - £75,000

Black Heart Foundation (UK) Limited

Open

Black Heart Foundation (UK) Limited, founded in 2010 by Ric Lewis, is a UK-registered charity dedicated to breaking barriers to achievement for talent...

Grant Range
£1,000 - £10,000

Blue Thread

Blue Thread is a London-based family foundation established by the Grabiner family, leveraging resources from decades in media and investment sectors....

Grant Range
£25,000 - £150,000

Brushmill Limited

Brushmill Limited is a grant-making charitable company established in 1981 and registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (number 28...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Buckinghamshire Community Foundation

Open

Buckinghamshire Community Foundation, operating as Heart of Bucks, serves as a catalyst for social change by connecting philanthropy to local causes, ...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £10,000

C and H Association Limited

C and H Association Limited is a grant-making charitable company established in 1983 (charity number 287082), governed by trustees from the Berger fam...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £25,000

C S Kaufman Charitable Trust

The C S Kaufman Charitable Trust, established by trust deed on 13 March 1967, is a longstanding UK-registered charity governed by a board of family-li...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Cam Estates

Cam Estates is a registered grant-making charity in England (Charity Commission no. 1167993), dedicated to advancing general charitable purposes, educ...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £30,000

Camden Giving

Open

Camden Giving is an independent charity founded in 2017, dedicated to ending poverty and inequality in the London Borough of Camden by empowering resi...

Grant Range
£2,000 - £10,000

Cascia Trust

The Cascia Trust is a family-run, grant-making charitable trust established in March 2013, governed solely by Rosefield family trustees and registered...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £50,000

Citizens UK Charity

Citizens UK Charity, founded in 1989 in East London by Neil Jameson, is the UK’s largest and most diverse community organising alliance, uniting over ...

Grant Range
Contact funder

City Bridge Foundation

Open

City Bridge Foundation, London’s largest independent charitable funder and historic owner of five iconic Thames bridges (Tower, London, Southwark, Mil...

Grant Range
£5,000 - £500,000

Civic Power Fund

Open

The Civic Power Fund, launched in 2022 as the UK's first pooled donor fund for grassroots community organising, unites progressive trusts like Unbound...

Grant Range
£2,500 - £20,000

Civil Liberties Trust

The Civil Liberties Trust, established in 1993 as a registered UK charity, serves as a dedicated funding vehicle to advance human rights and civil lib...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Commonweal Housing Limited

Open

Commonweal Housing Limited is an independent action learning charity dedicated to tackling social injustice through innovative housing-based solutions...

Grant Range
Up to £100,000

Community Foundation in Wales

Open

Community Foundation Wales, established in November 1998 as a registered charity and company, drives philanthropy to strengthen Welsh communities by c...

Grant Range
£500 - £2,000

Community Foundations for Lancashire and Merseyside

Open

Community Foundations for Lancashire and Merseyside (CFLM), established in 1997 as Sefton Community Foundation and evolving into its current form, is ...

Grant Range
£250 - £30,000

Cora Foundation

Open

Corra Foundation, established in 1985 as Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland and now independent, is a Scottish grant-making charity dedicated to stren...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £50,000

Corra Foundation

Open

Corra Foundation, an independent Scottish grant-maker established in 1985 (originally Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland), drives positive change, opp...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Countypier Limited

Countypier Limited is a discreet, trustee-led grantmaking charity established in 1985 as a private company limited by guarantee and registered with th...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Cowrie Scholarship Foundation

The Cowrie Scholarship Foundation, established in 2020 by Professor Richard OC Oreffo, is a UK charity dedicated to dismantling financial barriers to ...

Grant Range
£30,000 - £35,000

Croydon Voluntary Action

Open

Croydon Voluntary Action (CVA) is the leading umbrella organisation for Croydon's voluntary and community sector, established to promote charitable pu...

Grant Range
£500 - £5,000

Dalaville Limited

Dalaville Limited is a long-established, trustee-led grant-making charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales since 1990, gov...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £15,000

Dina Perelman Trust Limited

Dina Perelman Trust Limited is a longstanding private family-led charitable trust established in 1977 as a company limited by guarantee, governed by P...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £100,000

Donald and Patricia Marsh Charitable Trust

The Donald and Patricia Marsh Charitable Trust is a generalist grant-making charity registered in 2011 with the Charity Commission, governed by a smal...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Eq Foundation

EQ Foundation, established in 2015 by EQ Investors Group Limited, is a UK-registered charity dedicated to advancing evidence-based philanthropy by dir...

Grant Range
£20,000 - £50,000

Fantastic Peach Foundation UK Limited

Fantastic Peach Foundation UK Limited, established in May 2021 as charity number 1197767 and dissolved in August 2025, was a time-limited philanthropi...

Grant Range
£100,000 - £5,000,000

Friends Provident Charitable Foundation

Open

Friends Provident Charitable Foundation, an independent UK grant-making charity established in 2004 with a £33 million endowment from Friends Providen...

Grant Range
£100,000 - £120,000

Galileo Foundation

The Galileo Foundation, established in 2017 by John McCaffrey after his work with Pope Francis and the Pontifical Academies, is a faith-driven philant...

Grant Range
£10,000 - £300,000

Global Impact UK

Global Impact UK, a registered charity and philanthropy advisor established in 2016 as part of the global Global Impact group (originating in 1956), e...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Gretna Charitable Trust

The Gretna Charitable Trust is a generalist grant-making trust established by deed on 15 March 1993, founded through the generosity of H R Walduck to ...

Grant Range
Contact funder

Showing 50 of 159 racial equality & ethnic minorities funders

Tips for Applying to Racial Equality & Ethnic Minorities Funders

Demonstrate lived experience leadership prominently in your application. Funders in this space prioritise organisations led by people from the communities they serve — show that people from ethnic minority backgrounds hold meaningful decision-making roles across your board, senior leadership, and delivery team rather than serving only in advisory or frontline positions. Describe how your services are culturally appropriate, explaining specific adaptations in language, format, location, or approach that make your work accessible and relevant to the communities you serve. Frame your analysis around structural and institutional racism rather than individual prejudice, showing that your project addresses systemic barriers in employment, education, health, housing, or criminal justice. Present community-defined outcomes — explain how the people you work with have shaped what success looks like rather than imposing external metrics. Address equity in your own governance and operations, including how you ensure fair representation, address power imbalances, and create inclusive organisational cultures. If your work involves coalition building across different ethnic minority communities, describe how you navigate diverse needs and avoid homogenising distinct experiences. Strong applications in this space balance the urgency of addressing racial inequality with long-term strategies for structural change, demonstrating both immediate community benefit and systemic impact.

Frequently Asked Questions about Racial Equality & Ethnic Minorities Grants

What grants are available for racial equality & ethnic minorities charities in the UK?

There are 159+ UK funders offering grants for racial equality & ethnic minorities charities. These range from small community grants under £5,000 to large multi-year funding programmes exceeding £100,000. Use Fundermatcher to find the best match for your organisation.

How much funding can racial equality & ethnic minorities organisations get?

Grant amounts for racial equality & ethnic minorities charities vary widely depending on the funder and project. Typical grants range from £1,000 to over £100,000. Many funders offer multi-year funding for established organisations with a strong track record.

How do I apply for racial equality & ethnic minorities grants?

Start by identifying funders whose priorities align with your racial equality & ethnic minorities work. Fundermatcher matches your charity's profile against 159+ funders to find the best fit. Our AI assistant can then help you draft compelling grant applications.

How to Find the Right Racial Equality & Ethnic Minorities Funders

1

Describe Your Charity

Tell us what your charity does, who you help, and where you work. Takes 30 seconds.

2

Get Matched Instantly

Our AI ranks all 159 racial equality & ethnic minorities funders by how well they fit your specific work.

3

Write Winning Applications

Our AI assistant helps you draft and refine grant applications tailored to each funder.

Which of These 159 Funders Are Right for You?

Browsing 159 funders manually takes hours. Describe your charity once and get your top matches ranked by compatibility — in seconds.

  • Personalised match scores
  • Eligibility checks
  • AI grant writer