Our grant-making in practice
Who we fund
We fund a wide range of organisations who share our vision of the world as it should be. These organisations are primarily smaller charities or equivalent in the UK, rooted in community, and with ambition for long-term change.
How much we fund
On some occasions, we may identify strategic partnerships, where there is a deep inter-relationship between our shared goals. In these instances, our grants can be greater than £1m. Given the size of our grants, we prioritise going deep rather than funding volumes.
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How we decide
who to fund
Our approach to identifying potential grant partners is through learning and ecosystem building. Our commitment is to avoid creating a sense of competition through an application process, so we are not comparing individual organisations to each other. Instead we want to resource clusters of organisations who are together building our ecosystem. These organisations may not be already working together, but through our own learning, we can see how they are working towards similar or complementary goals.
We start the process of identifying work, through our current grant partners, so we understand who they partner with and why. We use this knowledge to conduct our own desk research. This in turn enables us to build our own ecosystem maps, inviting more organisations as we continue to learn. Our ecosystem mapping is designed to help us lay the foundations of a new system that create the societal conditions for community self-determination and building power. We see these conditions as integral to our understanding of the world as it should be. Through these multiple lenses we work collectively as a team to make informed choices.
What to expect if
we invite you
We do not have a traditional, written application process. Instead, we commit to building a relationship through a series of conversations so that we can fully understand your work and uncover challenges and opportunities in real time. This enables us to understand how we may support you and how a learning relationship may evolve. We are not focused on short-term outcomes, but rather how your long-term goals will enable Tudor to also meet its long-term goals.
Our mapping, learning and grant-making is ongoing, but we take time before inviting individual organisations to apply. If we invite you to apply for funding, it means we are ready to have a conversation about awarding a grant.
There are multiple lenses through which we will decide the monetary value of an individual grant and we will communicate this in the early stages of the grant invitation conversation. We start by understanding the financial and governance position of your organisation as well as long-term plans for growth. We then consider where you are in your strategy – from seeding, to research and development, to scaling to a capital ambition. We then layer this against our goals and Tudor’s commitment to laying the foundations of a new system.
