Our funding data

Zoielogic Dance Theatre

We believe in the potential of open data. With better information, funders can be more effective and strategic decision-makers. We also believe that being transparent helps us to be accountable.

On average, our active portfolio contains over 900 grants. We have published all our grants and social investments made since 2008 on 360Giving, an initiative that aims to help UK funders publish their data in an open and standard format online. By publishing our data in an open format through 360Giving, it can be shared and compared more easily.

You can also find a full list of our funding each year in our annual reports. We've also started sharing more on who our funding is reaching and applications received using the DEI Data Standard.

Data about our funding

Our grants at a glance

Are you funding others in my area? What kind of organisations do Esmée support? How many grants were awarded last year? All the answers and more are available through 360Insights, a visual illustration of our grants.

In the table below, you can find our grants and social investments over the last year. Please note that the data will automatically update with the most recent grants made.

Search our grants, social investments and impact investments

To search our funding data or filter the results by certain search terms, use GrantNav, 360Giving's search tool.

You can find specific organisations we've funded or use keywords about the work we fund using the search field at the top, as well as the filter menu on the left-hand side to refine the results. To widen the search, or compare us with other funders, scroll down and select other funders from the list in the left margin. You can also export the results into a CSV or JSON file.

Learn more about how to use the search tool.

About 360Giving

360Giving provides support for funders to publish their grants data openly, to understand their data, and to use the data to create online tools that make grant-making more effective.

We grant-fund 360Giving because we think the data it collates can form the basis of new tools that everyone - those seeking funding as well as those looking to make grants and investments - can use to understand and improve giving in the UK.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to be used and shared as they wish. The data must be attributed to Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

A JSON file containing our raw grant data is available to download.

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