THE FOUNDLING MUSEUM

Registered charity 1071167 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To operate a museum for the maintenance, conservation and exhibition of the Foundling Hospital collection.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net operating deficit of £118,829 for the year, driven by a decline in fundraised income following a major capital campaign. However, the charity maintains free unrestricted reserves of £1,161,072, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet its policy target of three to six months of expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024) to unclear (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Foundling Museum (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Emma Ridgway — Director (source)
• Rosie Baker — Director (source)
• Stuart Boxall — Director (source)
• Isobel Chester — Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £4.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (58% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 23.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Susan Linda Hoyle OBEchair
• Andrew James McIntyre
• Christopher Richard Dumas · trustee of 2 other charities
• Claire Jeffers
• Edward Stuart Humphrey
• Francesca Filippini Pinto · trustee of 1 other charity
• Grayson Perry CBE
• Lord Simon Russell
• Michael Desmond Crossan
• Ronald Gould

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM LIMITED.

• LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM LIMITED income £19.9m
• THE SIR MAX AITKEN MUSEUM income £113k
• CATALYST SCIENCE DISCOVERY CENTRE AND MUSEUM TRUST LIMITED income £861k
• LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST income £335k
• Mildmay Hospital income £3.8m
• THE COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART FUND income £434k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.