HUMAN CAPABILITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1145084 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

HCF is a grant-making charity that makes grants to organisations predominantly in India.

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £95,261,466, which is an increase from the prior year. The trustees report adequate resources for the foreseeable future and note that the charity is reliant on private donors rather than public fundraising.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

In the news

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

• Luke Pagarani Director at Human Capability Foundation pressreader.com · 01/11/2018

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £1.8m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~14.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (62% 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: 64.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVINDER PAGARANI
• LUKE PAGARANI · trustee of 1 other charity
• NATASHA PAGARANI

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

Operates in: India · Senegal · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY FOUNDATION income £505k
• QUADRATURE CLIMATE FOUNDATION income £221.7m
• TOGETHER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £1.7m
• STANDARD CHARTERED FOUNDATION income £6.4m
• H&F Giving income £504k
• THE HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES income £233k

Side by side with its peers

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