# Bk Foundation

- Type: Trust / foundation
- Charity number: 1216931 (https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/1216931)
- What it funds: Health / saving of lives, Disability, Prevention or relief of poverty, Overseas aid / famine relief
- Who it helps: Children / young people, Older people, People with disabilities, Other charities or voluntary bodies, Other defined groups
- How it gives: Makes grants to individuals, Makes grants to organisations, Provides services, Other charitable activities
- Area of operation: Ethiopia
- Trustees: 3
- Last verified: 2026-11-04T00:00:00.000Z
- Canonical URL: https://opengrant.co.uk/funders/bk-foundation

Provides humanitarian and poverty relief support to vulnerable communities in Ethiopia. The charity supports people affected by poverty, war, conflict, displacement, and natural disasters through emergency aid, essential items, grants, and medical support. BK FOUNDATION also works with local partners to reduce suffering and help people rebuild their lives with dignity.

## Open and forthcoming schemes (0)

None in OpenGrant's sources right now.

## Charitable objects

> The objects of the CIO are • the prevention or relief of poverty in Ethiopia by providing: grants, items and services to individuals in need and/or charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty. • the relief of financial need and suffering among victims of war, conflict, as well natural or other kinds of disaster who are displaced within Ethiopia, in the form of items, and money (or other means deemed suitable), including the provision of medical aid.

## What it funds

Bk Foundation is registered under the Charity Commission purposes health / saving of lives, disability, prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid / famine relief for children / young people, older people, people with disabilities and other charities or voluntary bodies; the register records that it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides services.

The Charity Commission register lists its area of operation as Ethiopia.

## How to apply

OpenGrant has not found an open scheme from Bk Foundation in its sources (last checked 4 Nov 2026). It may fund by invitation only, or through programmes that OpenGrant's sources do not cover. OpenGrant does not take applications; always check the funder's own guidance.

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