THE ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1138145 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ALICE TRUST

The focus of our work has two distinct remits: as an operating charity, responsible for the care and management of Waddesdon Manor near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire and undertaking a more general grants programme primarily in the Arts & Humanities. In addition, the foundation undertakes a small grants programme focused on Buckinghamshire and the communities local to Waddesdon.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £826.1 million, driven by a £65.7 million gain on investments which offset a net expenditure of £11.2 million. The charity holds a large expendable endowment of £813 million and states it is not necessary to hold general unrestricted reserves, as unrestricted income covers charitable activities while any shortfall is met by the endowment. The trustees and auditors confirm the going concern basis is appropriate with no material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dame Hannah Rothschild CBE — Chair (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• British Museum — “The Waddesdon Bequest at the British Museum is a superb collection of medieval and Renaissance treasures left to the museum in 1898 by Baron…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

86 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (83 freehold); recorded price paid £5.9m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Residential & Commercial Property Manager — £40,000 - £42,000 per annum depending on experience · Aylesbury (On-site) · posted 1 week ago apply now (seen 09/09/2026)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 28/02/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~166.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (60% 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: 13.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/09/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/07/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Mark Kemp
• Deborah Anne Swallow
• FRANCESCO GOEDHUIS
• John Oliver Frank Kingman
• Nell Tomoka Brookfield
• Peter John Charles Troughton · trustee of 2 other charities
• THE HON HANNAH ROTHSCHILD · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Lord Neil Francis Jeremy Mendoza

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 WADDESDON HALL.

• WADDESDON HALL income £216k
• THE ROTHSCHILD ARCHIVE LIMITED income £1.6m
• THE RAMSBURY MANOR FOUNDATION income £5.4m
• MAISON DE L'INSTITUT DE FRANCE A LONDRES (FONDATION EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD) income £223k
• BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £4.3m
• THE RUDDOCK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

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