The Harrison Foundation

Analysis

The Harrison Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It was registered in July 2007, 19 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 06281130). It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Harrison Foundation reported income of £447k and spending of £2.6m, spending 583% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £539k to £447k (-17%), an average of -4.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 170%. Over the whole period it spent 378% 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 Harrison Foundation sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The George Cadbury Trust (George Henry T and Laurence J Cadbury Sections) (£446k), The Rathbones Group Foundation (£448k) and The 1989 Willan Charitable Trust (£444k).

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.