The Foundation supports a broad range of organisations and activities that share a commitment to making a positive impact to the lives of the communities in which they work, and that are driven by a desire to achieve excellence. They make grants across the UK to organisations in the following categories: Arts; Education; Youth; Health; Community; Museums and Heritage; Environment; Religion and Welfare.

This public engagement scheme supports projects that: raise public awareness of, and engagement with, contemporary physics; inspire and enthuse public audiences, especially those not previously interested in physics; reach adult and family audiences beyond the classroom; develop the science communication skills of individuals, particularly physicists. They are looking for projects targeted at audiences who aren’t already engaged with physics. Key audiences include women/girls, family audiences, and audiences with low science capital.

The Foundation's main grants programme provides support for places. These grants are for capital initiatives, i.e. buildings (new build or refurbishment) and equipment. They fund a broad range of organisations working across the fields of education, science and medicine, health and disability and arts and humanities. They fund the following categories of places which each have specific funding criteria: disability; mental health; older people; historic buildings & landscapes; hospices & palliative care organisations; places of worship; libraries & archives; museums & galleries; performing arts; public engagement with science organisations; secondary schools & sixth form colleges; special needs schools & colleges; Universities & research institutions.

The fund will consider giving grants towards medical capital projects, medical care or research and in support of medical training. It will also consider grants for running costs, for example grants towards medical capital projects, medical care or research and in support of medical training. The Hospital Saturday Fund will also consider grants for running costs.

The Trust purposes are the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science. In practice they support useful work in the developing world done by youngster in their Gap Year and support a number of good causes.

This trust supports a range of charitable organisations, generally with the emphasis on work being done in Dundee and Tayside, or possibly Scotland-wide. Organisations supported include health and welfare organisations and groups which provide assistance to individuals suffering from physical and mental illnesses.

The trust usually supports specific services or projects and prefers to give start-up grants for new initiatives. Grants are usually one-off and average £2,000. They primarily give to organisations in Fife.

The trust has general charitable purposes, with a preference for the West of Scotland.

The purpose of a Standard Innovation Voucher is to encourage new first time partnerships between a company and a university or further education college. The vouchers cover the academic project costs and are paid directly to the university or college. The company contributes an equal value in cash or in kind (such as staff time, materials or equipment) or a combination of both. All SMEs, social enterprises and third sector organisations with main company operations in Scotland can apply for a voucher if they are partnering with a Scottish University or Further Education College. Projects must be innovative (a novel/pioneering idea) and lead to new products, services or processes that will benefit the company, the academic institution and the Scottish economy.

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (formerly PPARC and CCLRC), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Institute of Physics run a small grants scheme designed specifically for schools and colleges. The scheme provides schools with grants of up to £600 for projects or events linked to the teaching or promotion of physics or engineering. Grants can be used to support a range of projects. Projects linked to astronomy, space and particle physics are particularly encouraged, as are those relating to engineering in areas such as energy, transport, information and communications, design and production and the built environment.