The Lili Tapper Charitable Foundation

Analysis

The Lili Tapper Charitable Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cheshire. It was registered in November 1974, 52 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under children and youth development. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Lili Tapper Charitable Foundation reported income of £90k and spending of £286k, spending 317% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £36k to £90k (+153%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 160%. Over the whole period it spent 342% of the income it received.

Among 5,641 England and Wales charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, The Lili Tapper Charitable Foundation sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include McGreevy No 5 Settlement (£90k), West Somerset Advice Bureau (£91k) and Samuel Wilson's Loan Charity (£90k).

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.