P H Holt Foundation

Analysis

P H Holt Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Liverpool. It was registered in April 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05731598). It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, P H Holt Foundation reported income of £328k and spending of £835k, spending 255% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £192k to £328k (+71%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 63%. Over the whole period it spent 210% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, P H Holt Foundation sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Werrington St John the Baptist with Emmanuel (£327k), Make a Change Foundation (£328k) and Taleem Foundation (£327k).

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.