Whitehill Chase Foundation

Analysis

Whitehill Chase Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Gloucestershire. It was registered in November 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 December 2025, Whitehill Chase Foundation reported income of £112k and spending of £151k, spending 135% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £73k to £112k (+53%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 129% 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, Whitehill Chase Foundation sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Arbuthnott Charitable Trust (£111k), The William Lithgow Foundation (£112k) and The Kelly Family Charitable Trust (£111k).

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.