The Corcoran Foundation

Analysis

The Corcoran Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in August 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 10764357). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Corcoran Foundation reported income of £170k and spending of £581k, spending 342% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £148k to £170k (+15%), an average of +3.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 259% 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, The Corcoran Foundation sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Friends of Greyfriars (£170k), The Pah Family Charitable Trust (£170k) and Pri Mab7 (£169k).

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.