The Young Foundation

Analysis

The Young Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in November 1977, 49 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 01319183). It says it makes grants to organisations, provides other finance and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Young Foundation reported income of £4.0m and spending of £4.6m, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £5.1m to £4.0m (-21%), an average of -5.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 77%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Young 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 98th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Motivation Charitable Trust (£4.0m), Suffolk Mind (£4.0m) and Stratford-Upon-Avon Town Trust (£4.0m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 97% and investments 2.6%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Grants to other organisations totalled £1.6m. Reserves of £2.6m would cover about 7 months of spending at that rate. It employed 36 people.

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.