The Ciechanowiecki Foundation

Analysis

The Ciechanowiecki Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Kent. It was registered in November 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, disability and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending May 2025, The Ciechanowiecki Foundation reported income of £40k and spending of £217k, spending 543% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2021 to May 2025, income grew from £29k to £40k (+37%), an average of +8.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2023, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 371% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, The Ciechanowiecki Foundation sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Close Charitable Foundation (£40k), Tackling Anxiety Together (£40k) and Lancing and Sompting Churches Foodbank (£40k).

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.