The Varkey Foundation

• The Varkey Foundation's work on teacher training, education technology, girls' education and refugee education suits applicants whose work sits in those areas, and its geographic focus is all countries.
• Its open route is the Global Schools Prize, which is open only to schools, so a charity that is not a school should not apply to it and should look instead at the foundation's grant-making through partnerships.
• The annual report gives £78,505 awarded in total, but the grant range is not stated, so that figure should not be read as a typical grant size.
• Applications for the Global Schools Prize open in September and close in December, and a nominated school must still complete an application itself.
• Grant-making is described as strategic partnerships with NGOs and charities that share its mission, with recipients expected to match and amplify donations, so any approach should show how your work fits that mission and how you would match the funding.

The largest grants to organisations in this funder’s latest annual report:

• We Are Family Foundation
  £40,138year to 31 March 2025
• Room to Read
  £38,367year to 31 March 2025

Grant examples taken from the funder’s filed accounts. Not included above: 2 grants to individuals.

• Grants paid, year to 31 March 2021; year to 31 March 2022; year to 31 March 2023; year to 31 March 2024: grants to institutions, as reported on the charity register (Part B).
• Grants paid, year to 31 March 2025: grants awarded in the year, as reported in the accounts.

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.

• Annual report (year to 31 March 2025)

This profile draws on the funder’s own website as well as its filed accounts.

Sources last checked on 30 October 2026.