The Jordan Charitable Foundation

Analysis

The Jordan Charitable Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in December 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Jordan Charitable Foundation reported income of £5.4m and spending of £10.8m, spending 201% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £26.7m to £5.4m (-80%), an average of -33% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 92%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Jordan Charitable Foundation sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Alcohol and Drug Service (£5.4m), Imago Community (£5.4m) and St Vincent's Charitable Trust (£5.4m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 100%. Charitable activities took 91% of spending and raising funds 5.6%. Grants to other organisations totalled £9.7m. Reserves of £151.1m would cover about 163 months of spending at that rate.

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.