Trust or foundation, registered charity 1136855
Cardiff University
From 2021 to now, Cardiff University has given at least £9.3 million to charities in Wales.
Themes it funds
Money given to charities working on each theme, as each charity describes itself on the register. Many charities list several themes, so these overlap.
| Theme | Given | Share of all money given | Charities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education and training | £9,288,704 | 100% | 11 |
| Amateur sport | £8,934,239 | 96% | 1 |
| Arts, culture, heritage and science | £253,193 | 3% | 7 |
| General charitable purposes | £193,220 | 2% | 4 |
| Preventing or relieving poverty | £153,761 | 2% | 3 |
| Economic and community development, and employment | £98,061 | 1% | 3 |
| Recreation | £60,700 | 1% | 1 |
| Disability | £31,125 | 0% | 2 |
| Health and saving lives | £6,783 | 0% | 2 |
| Human rights, equality and diversity | £5,000 | 0% | 1 |
Given each year
By the year of each grant, or of the charity's accounts that record it.
| Year | Given |
|---|---|
| 2025 | £2,164,748 |
| 2024 | £3,684,107 |
| 2023 | £3,480,543 |
| 2022 | £5,000 |
How it gives
- Charities in Wales funded
- 13
- Charities funded in more than one year
- 7 of 13
Where
The council area of each funded charity's contact address. Many charities work well beyond the area where their address is.
- Cardiff11
- Powys1
- Torfaen1
Size of the charities it funds
By each charity's income in its latest year.
- £1 million to £5 million4
- £500,000 to £1 million3
- Over £5 million2
- £100,000 to £500,0002
- £10,000 to £100,0002
What it says it does
From its entry on the register of charities.
The University provides Higher Education to the general public which will also include numerous research activities. For more detail see the Public Benefit Statement within the Annual Financial Statements.
- Status
- Registered on 13 July 2010
- Income in its latest year
- £634,070,682, year ending 31 July 2025
- Publishes its grants to 360Giving
- No
- This funder on the Charity Commission register
- This funder is itself a Welsh charity. See its OpenCharity page.
The charities it funds
Newest first. For each charity, given comes from its accounts or from 360Giving, whichever shows more.
| Charity | Given | From | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Man Trust Ltd | £60,700 | Charity's accounts | 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Cardiff University Students' Union | £8,934,239 | Charity's accounts | 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| The Learned Society of Wales | £150,000 | Charity's accounts | 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Wales Council for Voluntary Action | £40,694 | Charity's accounts | 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Ffotogallery Wales Limited | £840 | Charity's accounts | 2025 |
| Sherman Cymru | £5,950 | Charity's accounts | 2025 |
| Ace (Action in Caerau and Ely) | £90,986 | Charity's accounts | 2023, 2025 |
| Nofit State Community Circus Ltd | £4,578 | Charity's accounts | 2023, 2024 |
| Sight Cymru | £2,075 | Charity's accounts | 2023, 2024 |
| Jewish History Association of Wales | £5,578 | Charity's accounts | 2023 |
| Hijinx Theatre | £29,050 | Charity's accounts | 2023 |
| Ash Wales Limited | £4,708 | Charity's accounts | 2023 |
| Ethnic Minority Welsh Women Achievement Association | £5,000 | Charity's accounts | 2022 |
Where these figures come from
- Given comes from two places. For each charity, we use whichever shows more: what the charity's own accounts say the funder gave it, or what the funder published to 360Giving. We never add the two, because they often record the same grant. Every figure counts money from 2021 to now and is an at-least figure: a funder appears only when a charity's accounts name it or it publishes its grants, and OpenEconomy has not yet read every charity's accounts.
- Charities' accounts: read from the accounts they filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader, up to 2 November 2026. AI can misread a table, so check a charity's accounts before relying on a figure.
- 360Giving: grants funders published to 360Giving, loaded by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026. Only some funders publish there.