Two Ridings Community Foundation

Analysis

Two Ridings Community Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in York. It was registered in April 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Two Ridings Community Foundation reported income of £2.8m and spending of £3.0m, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £4.1m to £2.8m (-32%), an average of -9.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 46%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Two Ridings Community Foundation sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Methodist Relief and Development Fund (£2.8m), Shift Organisation Ltd (£2.8m) and B&Q Foundation (£2.8m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 54%, donations and legacies 36% and investments 9.7%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £20k. Charitable activities took 95% of spending and raising funds 4.5%. Grants to other organisations totalled £2.4m. Reserves of £337k would cover about 1 months of spending at that rate. It employed 12 people.

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.