The Beaverbrook Foundation

Analysis

The Beaverbrook Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in August 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Beaverbrook Foundation reported income of £118k and spending of £494k, spending 418% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £76k to £118k (+55%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 679% 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 Beaverbrook Foundation sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Norden Community Association (£118k), Poplar Blackwall & District Rowing Club (£118k) and The Philip Marsden Family Charitable Trust (£118k).

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.