David Rattray Foundation

Analysis

David Rattray Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Norfolk. It was registered in May 2007, 19 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides services and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending April 2025, David Rattray Foundation reported income of £383k and spending of £405k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £218k to £383k (+76%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 320%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, David Rattray Foundation sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Living Well Bromley (£383k), Grosvenor Church Barnstaple (£383k) and Ace of Clubs (Clapham) (£383k).

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.