The Directory of Grant Making Trusts 2026/27

Available to pre-order. The new edition will be out in September 2025. If you need funding now, you may wish to consider a subscription to Funds Online. We also have various other funding guides including The Guide to Major Trusts 2025/26 and The Guide to New Trusts 2025/26.

The UK’s best-selling guide to funding from grant-making charities is back in its 29th edition.

The Directory of Grant Making Trusts offers the information you need to seek your charity’s share of around £5.6 billion (tbc) – the annual total awarded by over 2,000 funders featured in this edition. With data sourced from grant-making charities, each with the potential to give at least £50,000 per year, no charity – big or small – should be without it.

Who is this book for?

This is the key information source for fundraisers, with which you can save time on finding funding prospects, target the grant-makers most relevant to your charity and discover funders you might not have known existed.

It was voted fourth on The Guardian’s 2016 list of ‘Five must-reads for charity workers’.

What does it cover?

DSC’s flagship guide to grant-makers includes:

• Concise information and contact details, including social media accounts where available, for every entry
• Total amounts of funding available for each grant-maker
• Examples of beneficiaries in each listing, for guidance on the types of project previously funded
• Extensive indexes divided by geographical area, field of interest and type of beneficiary, type of organisation, and type of grant available
• Each grant-maker’s description of project types that can or cannot qualify for funding
• This edition welcomes 174 (tbc) grant-making charities that are completely new to Directory of Grant Making Trusts.

‘The Directory of Grant Making Trusts has been an invaluable resource for us. It’s clear, comprehensive, and easy to use, helping us to identify funders that align with our work supporting older people in Waltham Forest. It’s become a key part of our fundraising toolkit.’
Helen Bigham, Community  Fundraiser, Age UK Waltham Forest

 

‘The Directory of Grant Making Trusts is an invaluable tool in our search for grant-makers, it is used on a daily basis and we would be lost without it.  Since purchasing the last two editions our funding success has shot through the roof, I cannot recommend it enough!’

Laura Parker, Fundraiser, Cyclists Fighting Cancer

What they said about the previous editions

 

‘The Directory of Grant Making Trusts is a brilliant one-stop-shop for charities and grants fundraisers. There is no need to replicate the research and insight, as here it is – all prepared so you can dive in whenever you need. Combine your boundless passion with this excellent resource. Good luck!’

Laurie Boult, Executive Fundraising and Engagement Director, Age UK [from the foreword]

 

‘The Directory of Grant Making Trusts is a resource which is invaluable to both fundraisers new to trust funding and also the more seasoned fundraisers among us. In a highly competitive and difficult to navigate space, this guide is a key tool to get you started and help stay on the right track. Most importantly, it gives you the information to ensure that your approaches tick all the boxes for success and you’re the right fit for funding.’

Claire Rowney, Executive Director of Fundraising, Marketing and Innovation, Macmillan Cancer Support [from the foreword]

 

‘This directory is a truly valuable resource. It has been really helpful as it has enabled us to identify funders with an interest in animal welfare. We will definitely be buying this helpful source of potential grant-makers again.’

Deborah Scott, Trust Fundraising Manager, The Donkey Sanctuary

 

‘It’s often hard to know where to start when you’re looking for funders, and The Directory of Grant Making Trusts has been incredibly helpful for our charity. The book is well presented and very easy to navigate. It sits on our desk and gets used every time we need to fund a project for our rescue centre!’

Lisa Smart, Trustee and Founder of Happy Paws Puppy Rescue

 

‘The Directory of Grant Making Trusts has helped me considerably to streamline my grant fundraising. It is easy to navigate, contains all the essential information I need and lives on my desk at all times.’

Josh Walker, Fundraising and Projects Officer, YMCA Crewe

 

Look inside the previous edition

Have a look inside at the previous edition The Directory of Grant Making Trusts 2024/25.

About the author

Kalli Jayasuriya

Kalli joined DSC in 2023 and is part of the research team. She studied Languages and Politics at the University of Nottingham, before doing a Masters in Gender and International Development at the University of Warwick. Outside DSC, she gets involved with Women Beyond Walls, a platform that aims to influence policymaking and discourse surrounding the incarceration of women and girls.

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