List of ALL taxpayer-funded charities (so far)
Total government grant funding to analysed organisations, 2020–2025: £2.3 billion
Below is my latest directory of taxpayer-funded charities.
Total taxpayer spending (across the last five tax years) for the charities below is £ 2,300,884,289 aka:
£2.3 BILLION!
I have listed 65 charities below (bearing in mind the Charity Commission for England and Wales lists over 170k charities at the time of writing. NB. Not all are taxpayer funded). I will be adding to this as and when. You can find lists of charities grouped by theme below (in my resources section).
Top 10 biggest recipients
British Council — £1,201,290,000 (2020–24)
British Red Cross Society — £417,960,000 (2020-24)
Migrant Help — £153,592,000 (2020–24)
Wellcome Trust — £105,998,100 (2020–24)
Southbank Centre — £101,053,330 (2021-25)
BBC Media Action — £52,112,800 (2021–25)
Overseas Development Institute (ODI Global) — £47,302,990 (2020–24)
British Refugee Council — £41,588,000 (2021–25)
Centre for Economic Policy Research — £22,510,000 (2020–24)
Universities UK — £17,973,760 (2020–24)
