The Van Neste Foundation

Analysis

The Van Neste Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bristol. It was registered in December 1969, 57 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 March 2025, The Van Neste Foundation reported income of £224k and spending of £255k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £216k to £224k (+3.5%), an average of +0.9% a year. Over the whole period it spent 154% 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 Van Neste Foundation sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% 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 Bishop Nikolai Fund (£223k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Fremington Devon (£224k) and Ypf Trust (£223k).

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.