Community Foundation for Leeds

Analysis

Community Foundation for Leeds is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leeds. It was registered in April 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04443312). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Community Foundation for Leeds reported income of £4.5m and spending of £5.0m, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £7.2m to £4.5m (-38%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 107% 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, Community Foundation for Leeds sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% 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 Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse (£4.4m), UK Fund for Charities (£4.6m) and The J Van Mars Foundation (£4.4m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 74%, investments 19%, donations and legacies 5.4% and trading 1.8%. Charitable activities took 92% of spending and raising funds 2.3%. Grants to other organisations totalled £3.8m. Reserves of £628k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate. It employed 21 people.

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.