Grant-making and general purposes: charities in England and Wales

Overview

England and Wales has 59,131 registered charities working on grant-making and general purposes on the current register extract, of which 51,583 reported income in their latest return. Together they reported £29.21bn of income. The median charity took in £23k, while the largest tenth reported £452k or more, so a typical donation goes to a far smaller organisation than the household names at the top of this list.

Income is concentrated: the ten largest charities working on grant-making and general purposes account for 19% of the total. Across the whole group, 13,332 charities have a note from the register, such as overdue accounts or three years of spending above income, and those notes are shown on each charity's page.

38,251 of the charities with reported income (74%) took in under £100k a year. Pages for the 33,303 charities with several years of accounts include their full income history, a comparison with similar-sized peers and a breakdown of where the money comes from.