Founders Combined Charity Income Common Investment Fund

Analysis

Founders Combined Charity Income Common Investment Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in April 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending October 2025, Founders Combined Charity Income Common Investment Fund reported income of £69k and spending of £159k, spending 229% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income fell from £1.8m to £69k (-96%), an average of -56% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2024, when income rose by 185%. Over the whole period it spent 19% 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, Founders Combined Charity Income Common Investment Fund sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Holly House Charitable Foundation (£69k), The Colonel Commandants Fund, Royal Tank Regiment (£70k) and Oxygen House Foundation (£69k).