The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Foundation

Registered charity 1056453 · since 1996peta.org.uk·England, Wales·Updated 29 October 2026

At a glance

£107k

Annual giving, year to 31 July 2025

From the Charity Commission register

A small fraction of the prior year (£460k in year to 31 July 2024).

Key takeaways

The PETA Foundation does not regard itself as a grant-making charity, and its annual report, register entry and website publish no application process, so a small nonprofit has no open route to apply.
It makes grants only occasionally, when a donor has restricted a gift geographically, and then only to an organisation able to fulfil that donor's instructions.
Unless your organisation can meet that condition, it should not expect a grant from this funder, and your time is better spent on funders with a published process.
The contact shown on its website is for getting in touch, so you could use it to ask whether any such restricted gift exists.

Overview

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Foundation is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1056453).

The PETA Foundation is a UK-based charity dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals. It works through public education, research, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement and protest campaigns. Its trustees do not regard it as a grant-making charity, but it periodically receives donations restricted geographically and must then pass them to an organisation able to carry out the donor's instructions. Its register entry reports annual giving of £106,693.

What they fund

Priority Areas

The foundation does not regard itself as a grant-making charity. It makes grants periodically only when a donation is geographically restricted, and then to an organisation able to fulfil the donor’s instructions. The foundation describes its wider charitable purpose as establishing and protecting the rights of all animals. Its work uses public education, research, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement and protest campaigns. These are descriptions of its wider work, not stated grant themes: the material read gives no general field of grant support, wider eligibility criteria or open application route.

How to apply

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry, its website or other pages about it. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

Application success factors

What the charity says:

A recipient organisation must be able to fulfil the donor’s instructions.

Where they fund

Registered area of operation (Charity Commission)

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Foundation.

Animal Aid Charitable TrustRollingGave £299k The Garl FoundationNo public processGave £1M The Patrick Rowland FoundationNo public processGave £85,300 Walter Lees FoundationRollingGave £104k Forster FoundationNo public process The Beare83 FoundationInvitation onlyGave £59,429 The Hugonin Family TrustNo public process Haysac FoundationRollingGave £13,948 Fort FoundationNo public processGave £1.2M The Lili Tapper Charitable FoundationRollingGave £265k

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 July 2021	£5,532,580	£4,850,464	—	Accounts for year to 31 July 2021
year to 31 July 2022	£6,054,456	£5,753,581	—	Accounts for year to 31 July 2022
year to 31 July 2023	£5,831,120	£7,007,434	—	Accounts for year to 31 July 2023
year to 31 July 2024	£5,891,715	£6,863,660	£460,345	Accounts for year to 31 July 2024
year to 31 July 2025	£7,651,535	£7,280,437	£106,693	Accounts for year to 31 July 2025

Income vs grants paid

IncomeGrants paid

Total value each financial year

YE 2024

£460k grants

YE 2025

£107k grants

Grants paid stayed within income across the 2 years shown.

Grants paid, year to 31 July 2024; year to 31 July 2025: grants to institutions, as reported on the charity register (Part B).

— No grants figure for those years.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.