The JFR Charitable Trust

Analysis

The JFR Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in February 1988, 38 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 JFR Charitable Trust reported income of £17k and spending of £23k, spending 132% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £17k to £17k (+2.6%), an average of +0.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 245% 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 JFR Charitable Trust sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Edwin and Joyce Hill Charitable Trust (£17k), Redbridge Indian Social Klub (Risk) (£17k) and Leslie Bibby Fund (£17k).

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.