Cunningham Foundation

Analysis

Cunningham Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in October 2020, 6 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 October 2025, Cunningham Foundation reported income of £305k and spending of £305k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income grew from £1 to £305k (+30536100%), an average of +2251% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2022, when income rose by 2410000%. Over the whole period it spent 219% 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, Cunningham Foundation sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Baker Family Charitable Trust (£304k), The William Brake Foundation (£307k) and Quality Studies (£303k).