The Tompkins Foundation

Analysis

The Tompkins Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in December 1980, 46 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 April 2025, The Tompkins Foundation reported income of £397k and spending of £586k, spending 147% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £248k to £397k (+60%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 203% 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 Tompkins Foundation sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Mikheev Charitable Trust (£396k), Christos Lazari Foundation (£399k) and The Whinfell Charitable Fund (£395k).

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.