The Braithwaite Family Foundation

Analysis

The Braithwaite Family Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Carlisle. It was registered in May 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Braithwaite Family Foundation reported income of £38k and spending of £67k, spending 178% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £24k to £38k (+56%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 290% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Braithwaite Family Foundation sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 56th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Maurice and Pearl Esterkin Charitable Trust (£38k), The Summer Camps Trust (£38k) and The a F Wallace Charity Trust (£38k).

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.