The Alice Ellen Cooper-Dean Charitable Foundation

Analysis

The Alice Ellen Cooper-Dean Charitable Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Dorset. It was registered in September 1978, 48 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Alice Ellen Cooper-Dean Charitable Foundation reported income of £1.6m and spending of £1.5m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £1.2m to £1.6m (+28%), an average of +6.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 98% 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 Alice Ellen Cooper-Dean Charitable Foundation sits at the 96th percentile: it is larger than about 96% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pimco Foundation Europe (£1.6m), Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes (£1.6m) and Age UK Doncaster (£1.6m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 100%. Charitable activities took 66% of spending and raising funds 31%. Grants to other organisations totalled £956k. Reserves of £506k would cover about 4 months of spending at that rate.