Philanthropic trusts and foundations play an understated yet vital role in funding the visual arts in the United Kingdom. This two-volume publication sheds a new and timely light on this under-scrutinised sector of the arts economy. Volume one opens the book on the affairs and achievements of one particular independent grant giving charity. It pieces together a flavourful account of the history and evolution of the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation, whose origins lie in the fashion scene of 1960s London, and it examines in an original and searching way the different outcomes that have resulted from this particular foundations support for artists and for arts organisations. Volume two, which includes contributions from leading experts in the field of arts funding and philanthropy, provides an overview of the current map of arts funding in the United Kingdom and analyses in unprecedented detail the specific contribution made within that by independent grant-giving trusts. The resulting publication represents a groundbreaking contribution to scholarship in the fields of arts funding and philanthropy.