Graham Rowlandson Foundation

Analysis

Graham Rowlandson Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Hertfordshire. It was registered in November 1989, 37 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 March 2025, Graham Rowlandson Foundation reported income of £319k and spending of £287k, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £52k to £319k (+519%), an average of +58% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 388%. Over the whole period it spent 102% 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, Graham Rowlandson Foundation sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dolphin Society (£317k), The Howard Family Charitable Trust (£319k) and Beccles Fenland Charity Trust (£315k).