The McGilvray Charitable Foundation

Analysis

The McGilvray Charitable Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in February 2019, 7 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 January 2026, The McGilvray Charitable Foundation reported income of £52k and spending of £57k, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from January 2022 to January 2026, income grew from £46k to £52k (+15%), an average of +3.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to January 2023, when income dropped by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 138% 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 McGilvray Charitable Foundation sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The M T Suterwalla Family Foundation (£52k), The Lytham Institute (£52k) and Friends of Kneller Hall (£52k).

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.