The Hutton Foundation

Analysis

The Hutton Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Reading. It was registered in November 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Hutton Foundation reported income of £216k and spending of £229k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £195k to £216k (+11%), an average of +2.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 120%. Over the whole period it spent 120% 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, The Hutton Foundation sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Yeovil Day Centre and Community Meals Service (£215k), S Sterling Charitable Trust (£216k) and Earl of Chichester's Charitable Trust (£215k).

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.