The Dodgson Foundation

Analysis

The Dodgson Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in East Sussex. It was registered in January 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, The Dodgson Foundation reported income of £124k and spending of £169k, spending 136% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £43k to £124k (+188%), an average of +30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 193%. Over the whole period it spent 108% 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 Dodgson Foundation sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Synergy Dance Outreach (£124k), Boys in Mind Girls Mind Too (£124k) and The Rainbow Centre Sri Lanka (£124k).

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.