THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1117431 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Higher Education

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING GRANTS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AND TO OTHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TO ASSIST IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF STUDENTS ATTENDING THE INSTITUTION.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds closed the year with a deficit of £9,520, arising from reduced donation income and increased foreign exchange losses. However, the trustees consider the position manageable due to ongoing financial and operational support from the parent company, the University of Chicago. The charity maintains a minimal reserves policy, holding only nominal funds to cover annual expenses.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

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

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 5 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2025 (received 06/05/2026, 6 days after the 30/04/2026 due date); year ending 30/06/2024 (received 08/05/2025, 8 days after the 30/04/2025 due date); year ending 30/06/2023 (received 24/06/2024, 55 days after the 30/04/2024 due date); year ending 30/06/2022 (received 11/10/2023, 164 days after the 30/04/2023 due date); year ending 30/06/2021 (received 18/01/2023, 263 days after the 30/04/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jennie Bennett
• Keyarmin Afsahi
• Robert Hochman · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: United States

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED.

• CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED income £2.7m
• MIT FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED income £7.3m
• THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS income £6.4m
• UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION UK LIMITED income £118k
• STANFORD FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED income £1.0m
• UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (USA) FOUNDATION LIMITED income £7.6m

Side by side with its peers

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