THE EDUCATION ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1142111 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EEF

The advancement of education for the benefit of the public by a) making grants to schools other not for profit organisations to fund projects which seek to address low educational attainment; and b) supporting and disseminating the results of research in to ways to mitigate the factors that cause or contribute to, and successful strategies for dealing with, low educational attainment.

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £197,854,306, which includes a significant unrealised investment gain reserve of £23,962,360. The charity reported net current liabilities of £3,939,322, driven by creditors falling due within one year of £20,600,676 against current assets of £7,289,715. Total net assets increased to £203,663,201 from the previous year's £178,005,419.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Dame Christine Gilbert named incoming chair of Education Endowment Foundation nurseryworld.co.uk · 15/08/2023
• Professor Becky Francis takes up new role as CEO of the Education Endowment Foundation ucl.ac.uk · 10/10/2019

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (52,809 followers) · instagram (2,154 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~73.6 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 (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: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dame Christine Bridget Gilbertchair
• Graham Clive Elton · trustee of 2 other charities
• Lucy Lauris Heller · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Donner · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sara Jane Breeden
• Sir Kevan Collins
• Sonia Elaine Thompson
• Zoe Ann Lewis

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT.

• THE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT income £259k
• EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £73.8m
• IESE FOUNDATION UK income £357k
• THE ROWLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £378k
• EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION income £639k
• THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH IN ENGLAND AND WALES income £19.2m

Side by side with its peers

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