GOLDMAN SACHS GIVES (UK)

Registered charity 1123956 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity is a grant making charity, providing grants to a wide range of charitable projects in the UK and abroad, funded principally by donations made by affiliate and subsidiary companies of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc and by current and former senior employees of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc, and its affiliates and subsidiaries.

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Latest income
£27.5m
Latest spending
£29.1m
Registered
2008
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Fund is included in the consolidated financial statements of its sole member, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund. Monetary contributions received include £23,133,867 from Goldman Sachs and £327,213 contributed by employees and former employees of Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs provides investment management, grant processing, and administrative services to the Fund, with fees for such donated services based upon the cost of time spent by Goldman Sachs employees.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Goldman Sachs
“Monetary contributions received include £23,133,867 (2024: £24,711,697) from Goldman Sachs and £327,213 (2024: £498,109) contributed by employees and former employees of Goldman Sachs.” — page 32
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

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.

Official officers record.

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

Total income
£27.5m
Total spending
£29.1m
Cost of raising funds
£137k
Reserves (reported)
£67.9m
Employees
0

Reported reserves equal ~28.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (89% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Australia · Belgium · Canada · France · Germany · Ghana · Hong Kong · India · Ireland · Israel · Italy · Lebanon

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/06/2025£27.5m£29.1m
30/06/2024£29.4m£30.7m
30/06/2023£19.7m£27.1m
30/06/2022£9.8m£36.6m
30/06/2021£42.8m£26.5m

Common questions

Is GOLDMAN SACHS GIVES (UK) financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the Fund is included in the consolidated financial statements of its sole member, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund. Monetary contributions received include £23,133,867 from Goldman Sachs and £327,213 contributed by employees and former employees of Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs provides investment management, grant processing, and administrative services to the Fund, with fees for such donated services based upon the cost of time spent by Goldman Sachs employees.

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND (UK).

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
GOLDMAN SACHS GIVES (UK)£27.5m—0unclear—no doubt
THE GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND (UK) FY2025£3.7m——unclear—no doubt
UK GIVES LTD FY2025£1.5m—0above—no doubt
THE GOLDERS CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£287k—0unclear—no doubt
SANTANDER UK FOUNDATION LIMITED FY2025£825k—0unclear0.0%no doubt
SRI SATHYA SAI CHARITABLE TRUST UK FY2025£239k—0unclear—no doubt

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