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THE JAMES DYSON FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1099709 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1. To advance education and training, particularly in the fields of design and technology;2. To advance scientific or medical research; and3. To support charitable and educational projects in the region in which the James Dyson Foundation operates.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£5.5m
Latest spending
£5.7m
Registered
2003
Accounts read
FY2023

Financial health, per its FY2023 accounts

The provided document is limited to the introductory section of the Independent Auditor's Report and does not contain financial statements or narrative commentary regarding the charity's financial position. Consequently, no facts regarding reserves, income, expenditure, or liquidity are available to assess financial health.

Automated summary of the FY2023 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

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Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

Electoral Commission register entries

Entries on the Electoral Commission’s public register where this charity (or its company) appears as the source — typically sponsorship of an APPG or an overseas visit provided to an MP, which charities may lawfully do. Shown with the Commission’s own reference; this is a transparency record, not an allegation.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income
£5.5m
Total spending
£5.7m
Reserves (reported)
£0
Employees
6

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Australia · Austria · Belgium · Canada · China · France · Germany · Hong Kong · India · Ireland · Italy · Japan

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£5.5m£5.7m
31/12/2023£8.1m£8.2m
31/12/2022£3.1m£1.8m
31/12/2021£1.1m£2.7m
31/12/2020£1.0m£994k

Common questions

Is THE JAMES DYSON FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2023 accounts: The provided document is limited to the introductory section of the Independent Auditor's Report and does not contain financial statements or narrative commentary regarding the charity's financial position. Consequently, no facts regarding reserves, income, expenditure, or liquidity are available to assess financial health. Its FY2023 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
COLONEL W H WHITBREAD CHARITABLE TRUST1£10k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LODDON FOUNDATION LTD.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE JAMES DYSON FOUNDATION£5.5m——unclear—no doubt
THE LODDON FOUNDATION LTD FY2025£9.8m——unclear—no doubt
THE DEBRA REISS FOUNDATION FY2025£413k—0above—no doubt
THE JOHN BLACK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FY2025£4.1m—1unclear—no doubt
DARTFORD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COLLEGE VOLUNTARY SCHOOL FUND FY2025£128k—0unclear—no doubt
THE MACLAREN FOUNDATION FY2025£142k——unclear—no doubt

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