THE GENERATION FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1113061 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Generation Foundation seeks to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable economic system; one that is aligned with a low-carbon, prosperous, healthy, safe and fair society. The Foundation executes this mission through research, major partnerships, grant-making, and through the matched giving programme for Generation employees.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £11.5m from £18.3m in the prior year, primarily due to the absence of a large one-off investment distribution. Despite this reduction, unrestricted reserves increased to £30.4m, significantly exceeding the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining one year's scaled-down grant-making programme.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alison Paton — Director (source)
• Audrey Choi — Chair of the Foundation (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~18.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (52% 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 (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Audrey Choichair
• Anthony Woolf
• Colin Le Duc
• David Blood
• Edward Mason
• Ghessycka Alexandria Lucien Bennett
• Henry Alejandro Gonzalez Gutierrez
• Miheala-Alina Manolache
• Rema Rajeswaran
• Sinisa Krnic
• Valerie Blanchette Rockefeller · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Australia · Netherlands · Scotland · Throughout England · United States

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE GENERATIONAL FOUNDATION income £1.4m
• THE GENERATIONS FOUNDATION income £138k
• Genesis Foundation income £351k
• THE VIRGIN MONEY FOUNDATION income £3.3m
• GENERATE income £104k
• THE RESOLUTION FOUNDATION income £4.2m

Side by side with its peers

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