Lord Hanson Foundation

Analysis

Lord Hanson Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in August 1999, 27 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 organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Lord Hanson Foundation reported income of £64k and spending of £55k, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £46k to £64k (+40%), an average of +8.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 84% 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, Lord Hanson Foundation sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Reverend C W Groves Almshouses (£64k), The Shackleton Foundation (£64k) and Browne Jacobson Charitable Trust (£64k).