The Archbishop of Canterbury's Charitable Foundation

Analysis

The Archbishop of Canterbury's Charitable Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in December 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 07453039). It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Archbishop of Canterbury's Charitable Foundation reported income of £96k and spending of £80k, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £250k to £96k (-62%), an average of -21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income dropped by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 221% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Archbishop of Canterbury's Charitable Foundation sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Almondbury Almshouses Charity (£96k), Social Workers Benevolent Trust (£96k) and Uxbridge Road Tabernacle Reformed Baptist Church (£96k).