Dukes Foundation

Analysis

Dukes Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in December 2021, 5 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, overseas aid/famine relief and other charitable purposes, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Dukes Foundation reported income of £218k and spending of £426k, spending 196% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from March 2023 to March 2025, income fell from £424k to £218k (-49%), an average of -28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 254%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Dukes 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 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sharon Full Gospel Church (£218k), Edp (Educational Development Projects) Trust (£220k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St James Hemingford Grey (£217k).