The Howard Foundation

Analysis

The Howard Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cambridge. It was registered in March 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Howard Foundation reported income of £147k and spending of £155k, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £202k to £147k (-27%), an average of -7.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Howard Foundation sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Haley Family Charitable Trust (£146k), Fairfield Community Trust (£147k) and Richard J Livingstone Charitable Trust (£146k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.