Adlib Foundation

Analysis

Adlib Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in November 2011, 15 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 March 2025, Adlib Foundation reported income of £61k and spending of £89k, spending 145% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £49k to £61k (+24%), an average of +5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 603%. Over the whole period it spent 74% 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, Adlib Foundation sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The C and R Charitable Trust (£61k), The Clearwater Charitable Trust (£61k) and The James Wise Charitable Trust (£61k).