The Keith Howard Foundation is a Yorkshire-based family foundation that supports local charities working to improve opportunities in the community. Its giving is centered on a small set of clearly defined themes: the arts, sport, social mobility, and animal welfare, with some education-adjacent work where it supports access, participation, and bursary-style opportunities. The foundation appears to favor practical, community-rooted organizations in Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, including both established charities and smaller local groups, and it also offers a separate emergency funding route for urgent needs.
Annual or periodic grant rounds for charities aligned to its core themes, plus a separate emergency funding route via an online GrantInterface portal. Grants appear to be focused on local Yorkshire organizations and are likely modest-to-midsize, with an emphasis on direct community impact rather than unrestricted national-scale funding.
Apply during the foundation’s defined annual/periodic windows and make sure your work clearly fits one or more of the four core areas and the Yorkshire geography. For emergency needs, use the online GrantInterface route; for standard grants, emphasize local impact, community benefit, and how your project creates opportunity for people in Yorkshire.
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Current and upcoming funding from The Keith Howard Foundation that your nonprofit may be able to apply for.
Who can apply: Must address immediate and significant need within Yorkshire or be a Yorkshire-based organisation addressing an international crisis. Applications do not need to fall within the four main focus areas and do not need to demonstrate impact across the Foundation's key strands.
Deadline: Available at any time in response to need.
Who can apply: Intended for charities/organisations seeking emergency funding. No detailed eligibility listed on site; general Foundation eligibility (alignment to focus areas and strands) likely applies.
Who can apply: Applications must fall within one of the four focus areas and be for projects or recipients based in Yorkshire. Except for animal welfare, projects should demonstrate impact in one or more of the key strands: education, access & participation, and healthier lives. The Foundation does not support capital projects or salaries.
Deadline: Applications open between the beginning of March and the end of June on the application form page; grant giving policy states applications are invited via the website during the funding window between July and September each year. Trustees make decisions in October.
Who can apply: Charities/projects must align with the Foundation’s four focus areas and one or more key strands (Education, Access & Participation, Healthy Lives). The Foundation will not support capital projects or salaries.
Deadline: Applications are accepted in defined windows each year. Site references application windows (e.g., applications open July 2026 to end of September 2026 for 2027 funding; earlier pages reference March–end June windows).
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