What Bukhman Philanthropies does

Bukhman Philanthropies is a London-based private charitable foundation (registered as Bukhman Philanthropies Limited, charity number 1211736) founded in 2024 by Dmitri and Daria Bukhman. Dmitri Bukhman is the co-founder of Playrix, one of the world's largest mobile gaming companies, and the family wealth underwrites the foundation's capital base; Daria Bukhman, an educator and wellbeing expert, serves as Co-Founder and Chair. The foundation operates as a grant-making entity with three focused pillars: neonatal and maternal health, mental health and wellbeing of children and young people, and literature. It does not sell products, charge fees, or generate commercial revenue; instead it disburses capital directly to universities, hospitals, charities and global organisations via multi-year funding commitments.

Name

Bukhman Philanthropies

Legal name

Bukhman Philanthropies Limited

Website

https://bukhmanphilanthropies.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Bukhman Philanthropies is a London-based private charitable foundation founded in 2024 by Dmitri and Daria Bukhman that funds research, hospital equipment and charities across neonatal/maternal health, children's mental health and literature.

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Product category

Philanthropic Foundation

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Voluntary Health Organizations (813212), Grantmaking and Giving Services (8132)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Private Foundations (BPAGAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Health Research Funding Agencies (Public/Quasi-Public) (HLAJALAB), Global Health Financing Mechanisms & Pooled Funds (HLAJAOAC)

Keywords

• Charitable grant-making
• Neonatal health funding
• Youth mental health
• Literary prize sponsorship
• Philanthropic foundation

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

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GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Others, Personnel, Operations

Revenue model

1. Grant Disbursements: Bukhman Philanthropies is a charitable foundation that receives funding from its founders (Dmitri and Daria Bukhman, linked to Playrix) and distributes grants to support organizations in its three focus areas. The foundation is the grant-giver, not a revenue-generating entity.

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Core offering

Bukhman Philanthropies is a London-based private charitable foundation that funds scientific research, hospitals, and charities across three focus areas: neonatal and maternal health, mental health and wellbeing of children and young adults, and literature. The foundation disburses multi-year grants and donations, partners with established institutions (universities, hospitals, charities), and launches high-impact initiatives such as the Press Pause teacher wellbeing program and the Bukhman International Booker Prize.

Product overview

Bukhman Philanthropies is a London-based charitable foundation founded by Daria and Dmitri Bukhman that operates as a unified grant-making initiative rather than a technology product platform. The foundation focuses on three core areas: Neonatal & Maternal Health, Mental Health & Wellbeing of Children and Young Adults, and Literature. Within these focus areas, the foundation provides grants to effective charities, supports innovative research programs, and launches impactful initiatives such as the Press Pause teacher wellbeing program. The organization does not offer software products or technology services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Neonatal & Maternal Health Grant Programme

Quantifiable outcome

• RULER emotional intelligence programme implemented in 5,000+ schools worldwide, reaching 200,000+ educators and 5 million students across 30+ countries
• +6 more outcomes

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Partnerships

28 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Co-ImpactcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 July 2026Three-year partnership providing £1 million to support locally rooted organisations working to improve early childhood outcomes at scale across multiple countries. Marks one of Bukhman Philanthropies' first grants outside the US and UK. Partnership aims to strengthen health, education and economic systems that shape children's lives.
• Booker Prize FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 July 2026Ten-year commitment to fund the International Booker Prize, which will be renamed the Bukhman International Booker Prize. Prize fund doubles from £50,000 to £100,000 split between author and translator. Supports 500 sets of shortlisted books gifted to UK libraries through The Reading Agency.
• Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2026£800,000 grant to support a three-year partnership focused on suicide prevention among young people in the UK. Partnership will expand CALM's C.A.R.E. framework (Check In, Ask, Remain, Expert Help) into a scalable prevention system. Aims to reach approximately 2.34 million users over three years.
• BabyzonecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 June 2026£2 million commitment over five years to support Babyzone's early years hubs in communities across England. Funding supports hub network expansion and development of Parent Confidence Index (developed with Oxford) as rigorous research and evidence model with potential to improve outcomes globally.
• Yale School of MedicinecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 30 April 2026$10 million gift to support the Yale Child Study Center and two initiatives: Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program. Funding supports expansion of RULER programme (5,000+ schools, 5 million students globally) and clinical trials including SPACE treatment model.
• Southbank Centre / London Literature FestivalminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 April 2026Funding for 2026 London Literature Festival at Southbank Centre (Oct 21 - Nov 1). Festival curated by Dua Lipa with focus on engaging young people with books through gaming collaborations, interactive workshops, and free events. Part of National Year of Reading and Southbank's 75th anniversary.
• Ditch the LabelminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 April 2026Multi-year partnership with £522,793 grant funding three programmes: Young People's Report (national research on AI/technology and mental health), Digital Ambassadors programme (peer leaders in schools), and direct support services (delivered 5,000+ hours of counselling with 93.8% resolution rate).
• Center for Global Development (CGD)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 March 2026£500,000 to accelerate innovation in neonatal sepsis diagnostics through NeoTest initiative. Addresses the leading cause of newborn deaths (25% of neonatal fatalities worldwide, 400,000-700,000 annually). Supports development of fast, accurate diagnostic test to replace 48-72 hour blood cultures that fail 40% of cases.
• United for Global Mental HealthminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 March 2026£500,000 donation over three years to advocate for better mental health support for women during and after pregnancy. Partnership expands advocacy work in Africa and Asia for maternal mental health. Calls for integration of mental health into maternal and child health services.
• Magic BreakfastminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 March 2026£300,000 to champion and provide nourishing school breakfasts. Partnership provides 900,000 school breakfasts to hungry children in the UK. 94% of schools report Magic Breakfast positively impacts pupils' readiness to learn.
• Duke UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 February 2026$10.5 million award to support Duke's Center for Child and Family Policy for groundbreaking research on pressing issues facing children and families. Projects include early relational health research, ESL teacher professional learning framework, AI-driven mental health tools research, and digital book-building platform.
• Schools Wellbeing Partnership and Anti-Bullying AllianceminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 February 2026£725,000 over three years to strengthen children's mental health and wellbeing in UK schools. Schools Wellbeing Partnership receives national training and peer learning; Anti-Bullying Alliance receives support for anti-bullying training, Anti-Bullying Week campaigns, and Young Anti-Bullying Alliance.
• Stanford School of MedicinecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 February 2026$10 million gift to advance Victor Carrión's work on youth mental health and traumatic stress. Supports expansion of Cue-Centered Therapy (CCT) and Building Resilience in Schools (BRIS) initiative from Puerto Rico globally. Also funds development of first-of-its-kind mobile gaming app based on CCT principles. Largest investment to date.
• University of OxfordcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 February 2026£1.5 million gift to support OxWell School Compass project, strengthening Oxford's work to improve young people's mental health. Project creates a platform to guide schools through priority areas based on student profiles from OxWell Survey (130,000+ responses collected). Initial group of ten schools will implement and evaluate chosen strategies.
• London YouthminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 February 2026£500,000 donation (£250,000 per annum) to support London Youth's mission to strengthen London's youth organisations. Supports mental health and wellbeing of young Londoners in areas of high poverty (37% of young Londoners affected).
• Surgo HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 January 2026Contributed over £2.2 million to create NextGen Pulse initiative - UK's largest dataset capturing youth voices and lived experiences on mental health. Powered by Derin™ AI platform, captures near-real-time narratives from young people aged 13-24 to drive more responsive, equitable mental health policy and practice.
• Healthy Brains Global Initiative (HBGI)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 November 2025£500,000 donation to support Fixing Futures Review examining UK children's mental health services. Partnership with HBGI UK will focus on voices of children, young people, families and carers. Review mobilizes opportunities for system change across CAMHS, education, justice, social services and NHS.
• Royal Foundation Centre for Early ChildhoodcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 October 2025Partnership to support research, collaboration, and campaigns across early childhood development. Shared vision of transforming society through collective approach to early childhood in UK and overseas. Research shows pregnancy to age five lays foundation for lifelong wellbeing.
• UNICEFcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 30 September 2025Contributed over USD $6 million to Navigating Childhood in the Digital Age - a four-year longitudinal study following thousands of young people. Partnership runs December 2025 to December 2029. Generates evidence to inform policy on how digital environments impact children's lives over time.
• Anna FreudcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 September 2025£1 million over four years to help build mental health and wellbeing of children in schools across UK. Supports: transition programme from primary to secondary school, training on responding to self-harm, and backbone funding for agile response to school needs. Team supports 40,000+ education professionals annually.
• King's College HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 July 2025£500,000 donation to support vital neonatal research, education and training. Funds Bukhman Research Fellowship for respiratory support research, respiratory function monitors, portable ultrasound machine, staff training, and parent/staff facilities.
• Place2BecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 June 2025£450,000 pledged over three years towards Place2Be's Whole School Approach. Works with 650+ schools across UK, especially in areas of high deprivation. Self-referral system Place2Talk had 40,000+ children seeking support in 2024 alone.
• Mental Health InnovationsminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 June 2025£300,000 grant to scale support for children and young people's mental health in UK. Supports Shout text service which took 350,000+ conversations with people aged 25 and under in 2024. 47% of texters were opening up for the first time about mental health.
• Women's Prize TrustcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 June 2025Partnership to launch Outstanding Contribution Award celebrating women writers' exceptional impact on literature. Award marks 30th anniversary of Women's Prize for Fiction with £100,000 prize to Bernardine Evaristo. Partnership aims to elevate perception of women in literature.
• Oxford Mindfulness Research CentrecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 May 2025£1 million gift to bolster Oxford's evidence-based mindfulness research and expand mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT). Supports Professor Willem Kuyken's team to scale MBCT globally with diverse groups including young people, parents, athletes, and underserved communities.
• UCLH CharitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 May 2025£1.5 million donation to support ENRICH Study on hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). Three-year funding for Remote Ischaemic Post-Conditioning research combined with therapeutic hypothermia to reduce brain damage and long-term disabilities in affected babies (1,000+ affected annually in UK).
• Neonatal Grantees (CW+, UCLH Charity, Imperial Health Charity)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 February 2025Pilot grants to address critical challenges in neonatal care. Recipients include CW+, UCLH Charity NHS Foundation Trust, and Imperial Health Charity - all dedicated to advancing care and wellbeing of newborns and families.
• Mental Health Grantees (PANDAS Foundation, Bliss, Beat, Young Minds, Samaritans, Mind)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 February 2025Pilot grants to promote resilience, education, and support for vulnerable populations in mental health and wellbeing. Recipients include PANDAS Foundation, Bliss, Beat, Magic Breakfast, Young Minds, Samaritans, and Mind.

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Direct peers

• Wellcome Trust: A major UK-based charitable foundation focused on health research, including mental health and global health. Directly comparable geographic base, mission overlap (mental health research at Oxford), and grantmaking model.
• Chan Zuckerberg Initiative: Tech-wealth philanthropy founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, with major programs in biomedical research and children's health/education. Closely analogous in origin story (tech founder, family-funded), program design, and research-grantmaking approach.
• Patrick J. McGovern Foundation: Private foundation focused on neuroscience and AI for global development, including mental health. Comparable as a tech-wealth private foundation with large grants to research institutions.
• Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF): Large UK-based foundation with focus on children's health and welfare globally. Overlaps heavily in maternal/neonatal health and adolescent wellbeing, with similar large multi-year grantmaking to international organizations.
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: The world's largest private foundation, with major grant portfolios in maternal/neonatal health and global health research. Highly comparable as a private philanthropic vehicle deploying large multi-year grants to top-tier research institutions and global health organizations.
• Pivotal Ventures: Founded by Melinda French Gates, this philanthropic vehicle focuses on women, families, and social progress with substantial grantmaking capacity. Comparable in being family-funded by a tech-wealth founder and deploying large programmatic grants.
• DELL Foundation: Tech-founder family philanthropy focused on youth, education, and health. Comparable founding story (Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell), emphasis on measurable outcomes, and youth-focused giving.

Broad incumbents

• Bloomberg Philanthropies: A very large private foundation with broad portfolios spanning health, education, arts, and culture. Comparable as a family-wealth-funded foundation with diverse thematic focus areas and major global grantee relationships.

Others

• Booker Prize Foundation: Recipient of Bukhman Philanthropies' ten-year commitment to fund the International Booker Prize. Adjacent as a current grantee in the literature portfolio, reflecting the foundation's strategy of supporting existing cultural institutions.
• Mind (UK mental health charity): Major UK mental health charity receiving Bukhman funding. Adjacent as a current/potential grantee in the children's mental health portfolio rather than a peer foundation, but represents the type of organization Bukhman partners with.

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