The Carlile Foundation Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Carlile Foundation Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in October 2010, 16 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 organisations.

In the financial year ending October 2025, The Carlile Foundation Charitable Trust reported income of £72k and spending of £79k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income grew from £70k to £72k (+2.6%), an average of +0.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2024, when income rose by 328%. Over the whole period it spent 128% 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 Carlile Foundation Charitable Trust sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Sheila Carr Foundation (£72k), The London Scottish Headquarters Trust (The Headquarters Trust) (£72k) and Miss Bridget Catherine Johnson Charitable Settlement (£72k).