Building a regenerative future where flourishing is the measure of progress
We provide grants for nonprofits across the UK and France, resourcing advocates, practitioners, researchers, and front-line charities with long-term funding and proactive allyship.
Education, climate, and community are intertwined
Inequality, social fragmentation, and environmental breakdown are too often treated as separate problems. At the heart of all three, short-termism and efficiency take precedence over the wellbeing and resilience of people, communities, and the environment.
Across France and the UK, advocates and field-builders are redesigning these systems so wellbeing and resilience sit at the centre. At NILO Foundation, we support them so they can focus fully on the work and drive systems change.
Funding charities to make systems change possible
We fund charities in the UK and France with unrestricted, long-term capital, providing partners the room to use their expertise quickly, learn, take risks, and collaborate across the sector.
Our model relies on proactive allyship and evidence-based giving. We provide grants for small charities and larger organisations alike, covering core costs that traditional funding often overlooks.
Working across countries gives us a wide view of the field and a rich philanthropic ecosystem to draw on. We exchange with peers regularly, for co-learning and co-action.
The systems we are here to change
In both areas, we offer unrestricted funding to nonprofits for the long term.
EDUCATION & SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING
Building resilience in schools
Young people deserve education that prepares them for the world they’ll inherit.
CLIMATE & JUST TRANSITION
Transitioning with justice, not just speed
We fund organisations reshaping the economy around wellbeing and resilience, not growth alone.
Some of the organisations we back
We fund charities of all sizes across the UK and France, from long-established organisations to small charities finding their feet. See our partners:
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The story so far
£3M+
Committed in unrestricted grants.
10+
Active and former partners supported across France and the UK.
2021
The year we began.
Transparency is part of the work
We ask our partners to trust us, so we are open about ourselves.
We are funded by a single private donor, and the fund flows through us to the field rather than sitting in an endowment. We don’t hold open calls, but we map the field and choose partners on evidence and conviction, then fund them.
Our decisions are made by a small governance team, guided by a set of principles that prioritise community-led change and long-term capacity.
We publish updates on our governance, partners, and learning as we go.
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Latest updates
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Fertile Ground: Mapping Europe’s wellbeing economy for EU funders
From grassroots action, mobilisation to advocacy, capacity building and research, an in-depth review of the burgeoning fields of actors and strategies aiming to redesign the economy for people and planet
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What five years of trust-based philanthropy taught us about patience
After 5 years, here’s what trust-based philanthropy has meant for the nonprofits we back, and what it taught us, as an equitable funder, about grantmaking.
Let’s stay in touch
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