Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 24 Public foundations based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 56 public foundations headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 314 professional contacts across them, including 123 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers public foundations headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 24 largest public foundations based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “High Trees Community Development Trust is a Non-profit Organization Management company located in 220 Upper Tulse Hill, London, United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We provide philanthropic services to individuals, families and organisations and manage more than 100 grantmaking funds, supporting more than 500 community projects per year on…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since its foundation in 1972, Benefact Trust has awarded over £235m in grants to churches, Christian charities and communities - £100m in the last 5 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GrantScape is a national charity dedicated to delivering impactful community grant programmes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation is a local grantmaker supporting small, grassroots, community groups and charities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Greggs Foundation works to strengthen communities by expanding opportunities, increasing support networks and reducing the immediate impact of poverty through responsive…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Transforming South Yorkshire through grant giving to community groups Helping businesses and individuals give back to communities 🤝” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We know that there are many enterprising people already doing great things to transform the places they live in and love.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are an independent grantmaking foundation supporting charities that make a difference to people, society and the natural world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Community Foundation for Staffordshire is a fund and philanthropic management organisation, managing over £10m per annum.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Community fund & charity which supports projects that benefit local charities, educational establishments & community groups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Steps to Kindness - We are a non-partisan, non-religious, non-affiliated organisation that will put your money into projects to help bring about a sustainable change and real…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We’ve been managing and distributing the kindness and generosity of local people and businesses since 1988.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hamilton Davies Trust (HDT) is a registered charity (Number 1106123) providing support to the local communities of Irlam, Cadishead and Rixton-with-Glazebrook.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lintel Trust is an independent Scottish Incorporated Charitable Organisation (SCIO), working closely with SPA (Scottish Procurement Alliance) as part of the wider LHC Procurement…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Evelyn Trust is grant-giving charity based in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The EA Foundation is an independent grant-making charity (registration no.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Here at Swanson Buck, we're passionate about helping both businesses and charities secure the funding they need to make their visions a reality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Supporting and advising charitable foundations, with a unique understanding of their role and function.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Charity Service is a trusted expert in charitable giving.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Giving money and support where people need it most” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “KIVETON PARK AND WALES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST is a Non-profit Organization Management company located in Colliery Rd, Kiveton Park, United Kingdom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: public foundations. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names public foundations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of public foundations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name public foundations. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
Showing 24 of 56 public foundations based in the United Kingdom
See the full list, filter by size, metro and specialty, and get verified emails and direct dials for all 123 reachable decision-makers.
Free signup · no credit card
Public foundations based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 56 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among public foundations, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “public foundations”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names public foundations), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among public foundations, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 123 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names public foundations, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many public foundations are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 56 public foundations headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
High Trees Community Development Trust, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most public foundations?
London leads with 17 headquartered companies, followed by Birmingham (3) and Arisaig (1).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 123 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 56 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
Ready to reach these companies? Verified emails and direct dials for all 56 public foundations based in the United Kingdom. Start with a free account, no credit card.
Download this list →Related lists
Public foundations by geography
Browse the directory
Browse: Companies home · All United Kingdom lists · All Public foundations lists · New lists
About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.