TATE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1085314 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Tate Foundation's principal activities are to raise funds to support the Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery

Objects

To support and assist the Tate Gallery in maintaining and expanding its collections and services to scholars, curators, artists and the general public and to assist other artistic endeavours to any extent that in the opinion of Tate Foundation may be conducive or compatible with the statutory aims and objectives of Tate Gallery.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £625,522 for the year ended 31 March 2025, a significant improvement from the £3,562,739 deficit in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £5,501,038, which is well above the stated policy target of £1,851,311. The charity confirmed it can continue to cover operating costs for at least twelve months with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04009652

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Karin Hindsbo — Interim Director (source)
• Liam Darbon — Interim Managing Director (source)
• Catherine Wood — Tate Modern Interim Director (source)
• Alex Farquharson — Tate Britain Director (source)
• Anne Barlow — Tate St Ives Director (source)
• Jemima Pyne — Tate Liverpool Interim 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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• GETTY, Tatum — director, appointed 10/03/2026on trustee list
• HINDSBO, Karin — director, appointed 10/03/2026on trustee list
• JHANGIANI, Manik Hiru — director, appointed 06/03/2025on trustee list
• GUTMAN, Anthony John Charles — director, appointed 11/07/2023on trustee list
• GRAD, Jonathan — director, appointed 13/12/2022on trustee list
• SHORE, Howard Paul — director, appointed 12/07/2022on trustee list
• RUDD, Roland Dacre — director, appointed 20/06/2019on trustee list
• UGGLA, Lance — director, appointed 20/06/2018on trustee list
• GAONKAR, Mala Gopal — director, appointed 20/06/2018on trustee list
• EISLER, Edward Kirill — director, appointed 23/09/2015on trustee list
• BARATTA, Joseph Patrick — director, appointed 31/07/2014on trustee list
• ECONOMOU, George — director, appointed 10/08/2012on trustee list
• ROMAN, Emmanuel — director, appointed 26/04/2012on trustee list
• PALLEY, Simon Dan — director, appointed 26/04/2012on trustee list
• MEAD, Edward Scott — director, appointed 21/11/2006on trustee list
• YIANNIKAS, Anastasia — secretary, appointed 27/09/2021

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% 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: 23.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Gutmanchair
• EDWARD EISLER
• EDWARD SCOTT MEAD
• EMMANUEL ROMAN
• GEORGE ECONOMOU
• Howard Shore
• JOSEPH PATRICK BARATTA
• Jonathan Grad
• Karin Hindsbo
• LORD STEVENSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lance Uggla
• MALA GAONKAR
• Manik Jhangiani
• Roland Rudd
• SIMON DAW PALLEY
• Tatum Getty

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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• THE GATE THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED income £224k
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• FULL FACT income £3.1m

Side by side with its peers

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