The Trust Foundation

Analysis

The Trust Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Birmingham. It was registered in September 2018, 8 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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 December 2025, The Trust Foundation reported income of £2.5m and spending of £3.3m, spending 133% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £2.7m to £2.5m (-8.0%), an average of -2.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 106% 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 Trust Foundation sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% 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 Belstead Ganzoni Charitable Settlement (£2.4m), The Cyril Taylor Charitable Foundation (£2.5m) and The Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust (£2.4m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from donations and legacies 100%. Charitable activities took 100% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Grants to other organisations totalled £3.2m.