Trinity College Cambridge

Registered charity 1137604 · since 2010trin.cam.ac.uk·Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk·Updated 29 October 2026

At a glance

£7.3M
Annual giving, year to 30 June 2025
From filed accounts
£120k to £2.6M
Grant range
From the annual report's grant list
From the named grants only. A further £624k went in grants the report doesn't itemise.
£644k
Typical grant (median)
5 published grants

Key takeaways

  • Trinity College Cambridge's stated priorities are education, learning, religion, research and widening participation, and its giving is principally tied to the University of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, the City of Cambridge and East Anglia.
  • Its named grants to organisations range from £120,000 to £2,650,000, with a median of about £645,000, so a modest request may sit far below what it typically gives and should be set with that in mind.
  • Its annual report describes giving mainly to other University colleges, trusts and institutions with similar objects, so an organisation outside that sphere should check its fit against those themes before approaching it.
  • No application process is published, so the contact shown on its website is the route to start a conversation, and the sources give no timing or detail on how competitive requests are.

Overview

Trinity College Cambridge is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1137604).

Trinity College Cambridge is a registered charity whose purpose is the advancement of education, religion, learning and research for public benefit, primarily through maintaining and supporting a College in the University and City of Cambridge. The College provides education for some 1100 undergraduate and graduate students. Its annual giving was £7,311,000, and it gives to other colleges, trusts and institutions in the University, as well as to charities in and around Cambridge and to appropriate bodies where it owns property.

What they fund

Priority Areas

Trinity makes donations to other colleges, trusts and institutions in the University whose objects are similar to its own, and also to charities in and around Cambridge and appropriate bodies in places where it owns property. Its charitable activities are principally associated with the University of Cambridge and other educational causes in Cambridge. It describes its mission as advancing education, learning, religion and research for public benefit. Its stated support includes funding for other colleges and departments, widening participation funds, graduate studentships, teaching and research, and local communities in Cambridge and East Anglia. This support is collaborative, extending through schemes that complement university and college provision and leverage external sources of funding.

Themes

  • Education and learning
  • Religion
  • Research
  • Widening participation

Geographic Focus

Priority: Cambridgeshire; the City of Cambridge; East Anglia: Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire counties in United Kingdom.

How to apply

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

Application success factors

What the charity says:

  • It gives to University colleges, trusts and institutions whose objects are similar to its own.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Similar funders

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Grants

5 published grants analysed · median £644k

How much do they typically give?

Share of 5 grants in year to 30 June 2025 by size

£100k–£250k20%
£250k–£500k0%
£500k–£1M40%
£1M and over40%

Median £644k (year to 30 June 2025)

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

  • Cambridge Trust
    £2,650,000year to 30 June 2025
  • Isaac Newton Trust
    £2,457,000year to 30 June 2025
  • The Trinity Challenge
    £644,000year to 30 June 2025
  • Cambridge Colleges for teaching
    £546,000year to 30 June 2025
  • Cambridge University for teaching support
    £120,000year to 30 June 2025

Grant examples taken from the funder’s filed accounts. Not included above: 1 with no named recipient; 1 line covering other, unnamed recipients (£624k).

Five years of accounts

Financial yearIncomeExpenditureGrants paidAccounts document
year to 30 June 2021£65,197,000£64,937,000£2,835,000Accounts for year to 30 June 2021
year to 30 June 2022£80,204,000£78,975,000£2,963,000Accounts for year to 30 June 2022
year to 30 June 2023£97,250,000£82,174,000£3,866,000Accounts for year to 30 June 2023
year to 30 June 2024£104,224,000£87,596,000£1,019,000Accounts for year to 30 June 2024
year to 30 June 2025£105,509,000£101,207,000£7,311,000Accounts for year to 30 June 2025

Income vs grants paid

IncomeGrants paid

Total value each financial year

YE 2021
£2.8M grants
YE 2022
£3M grants
YE 2023
£3.9M grants
YE 2024
£1M grants
YE 2025
£7.3M grants

Grants paid stayed within income across the 5 years shown.

  • Grants paid, year to 30 June 2021; year to 30 June 2022; year to 30 June 2023; year to 30 June 2024: grants to institutions, as reported on the charity register (Part B).
  • Grants paid, year to 30 June 2025: the accounts do not say whether this is grants awarded or paid.

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.

Sources

Other sources

  • Annual report (year to 30 June 2025)

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

Sources last checked on 23 October 2026.

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