The Boris Karloff Charitable Foundation

Analysis

The Boris Karloff Charitable Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in July 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, disability, arts/culture/heritage/science and amateur sport, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2026, The Boris Karloff Charitable Foundation reported income of £91k and spending of £112k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2022 to March 2026, income grew from £72k to £91k (+27%), an average of +6.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, The Boris Karloff Charitable Foundation sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Taste of Africa (North East) (£91k), The Diwali Foundation (£91k) and Family2Family (£91k).

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.