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Grant funding data 2018 to 2019

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This report provides data on the grants we've funded over the past year and funding trends for the past five years.

It includes the number and value of awards in our current grant portfolio, application and award rates, and who we've funded and where.

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What's inside

  • facts and figures on our grant funding and grant recipients for the period 1 October 2018 to 30 September 2019
  • funding trends over the past five years

Who is this for

  • anyone interested in what Wellcome spends on grant activities and who receives Wellcome funding
  • researchers and research office staff
  • UK and international funders and policy makers

Key findings 

  • Our grant portfolio has increased in total value by 31% to £4,586m since 2014/15.
  • Our international grant portfolio has grown by 88% to £1,245m since 2014/15.
  • 42% of the total funding committed over the past five years has been spent on our standard response mode schemes.
  • Application numbers have increased by 37% to 6,745 since 2014/15, but the number of awards has fallen by 3% to 1,134.
  • Our funding is concentrated within a few organisations. 76% of our grant portfolio is held by 20 organisations, and 41% is held by the University of Oxford, Sanger Institute, University of Cambridge and University College London
  • Applicant success rates are similar by gender (18% for women, 17% for men) but differ by ethnicity (18% for white applicants, 15% for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic applicants).

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  • Grant funding data 2018-2019PDF 889 KB
  • Wellcome UK grant funding table 2019XLSX 30.7 KB

    • Related content 

    Wellcome Trust Annual Report and Financial Statements 2019

    See our list of Wellcome grants awarded 1 October 2005 to 31 March 2020 [XLSX 9.78MB].

    This spreadsheet has been created using the 360Giving(opens in a new tab) data standard. The work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence(opens in a new tab), which means the data is freely available to anyone to be used and shared as they wish. The data must be attributed to Wellcome.