The City Charity Trust

Analysis

The City Charity Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in September 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 City Charity Trust reported income of £128k and spending of £143k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £3,388 to £128k (+3679%), an average of +148% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 62947%. Over the whole period it spent 8.5% 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 City Charity Trust sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Mackay and Brewer Charitable Trust (£128k), Place at My Table (£128k) and The Exbury Gardens Trust (£128k).