About us
EQ Foundation is an innovative, award winning registered charity connected to EQ Investors that has donated over £5,000,000 since 2015 to carefully selected charities and social enterprises.
As a grant maker we favour smaller, dynamic, ambitious organisations that can demonstrate their impact. Full details of our grants can be found on GivingisGreat.org here. Please note that we are not currently accepting unsolicited applications for funding as we are concentrating on our existing relationships.
As well as supporting highly effective frontline charities, we are also committed to making philanthropy work better. Wealthy adults in the UK donate less than 0.5% of their net worth to charities each year (source: CAF). We believe that partly reflects the difficulty in identifying the best charities. So, we have developed two initiatives to help address that issue:
GivingisGreat.org is the UK's foremost charity analysis platform. It analyses EVERY UK registered charity, helping to identify issues that need investigation and highlighting charities that have attracted support from top grantmakers. It also shows how those grant makers are allocating their funds. Try it now.
GiveMore is a donation platform that allows people to donate to charities that we have analysed and found to be highly effective. Subscribers benefit from monthly updates on key developments and are shielded from requests to donate more. The portal includes a record of your giving and how much impact it has achieved as well as relevant news stories, Further details here
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Most people who give to charity do so because they care. They've seen a cause that moves them, a story that resonates, or an organisation doing work they believe in. That impulse is the foundation of all....moreGiving is Great scoops award for Best Philanthropic Initiative
We are extremely proud to announce that Giving is Great has won the 'Philanthropic Initiative Award' at the WealthBriefing....more
