Carpenter Box Charitable Foundation

Analysis

Carpenter Box Charitable Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Worthing. It was registered in May 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Carpenter Box Charitable Foundation reported income of £20k and spending of £15k, leaving 23% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £15k to £20k (+34%), an average of +7.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 135%. Over the whole period it spent 95% 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, Carpenter Box Charitable Foundation sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include C E Eliot-Cohen's Charitable Settlement (£20k), Holme Hale Playing Field Mangement Commitee (£20k) and Crawley Down Monday Club (£20k).