The Guggenheim UK Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Guggenheim UK Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in South Gloucestershire. It was registered in April 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Guggenheim UK Charitable Trust reported income of £86k and spending of £82k, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £37k to £86k (+136%), an average of +24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 359%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, The Guggenheim UK Charitable Trust sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include British Society for Geomorphology (£86k), Contemporary Glass Society (£86k) and Bristol Legacy Foundation (£86k).