Fort Foundation

Analysis

Fort Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Burnley. It was registered in November 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending February 2025, Fort Foundation reported income of £254k and spending of £1.2m, spending 478% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from February 2021 to February 2025, income fell from £300k to £254k (-15%), an average of -4.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to February 2025, when income rose by 515%. Over the whole period it spent 246% 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, Fort Foundation sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Hamilton Davies Trust (£253k), The Bell Charitable Trust (£254k) and Redeemed Christian Church of God: Covenant Restoration Assembly Coventry (£252k).

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.