EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1149828 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CEA, CENTRE FOR EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM

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

Latest income

£12.1m

Latest spending

£37.5m

Registered

2012

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is winding down its operations, with financial statements prepared on a basis other than going concern. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were £62,563, which is below the stated policy target of six months of operating costs, although net current assets were sufficient to cover twelve months of costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: not less than 6 months of future operating costs in net current assets (held: £63k)

“EV UK has a policy of holding not less than 6 months of future operating costs in net current assets at all times.” — page 10

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Going concern: accounts NOT prepared on a going-concern basis (closing, merging or winding up)

“For this reason, the financial statements are prepared on a basis other than a going concern.” — page 15

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Rob Gledhill — CEO (source)
Zach Robinson — CEO (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.

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

Total income

£12.1m

Total spending

£37.5m

Reserves (reported)

£63k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% 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 (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (13/11/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Eli Rose
Lincoln Quirk
Patrick Thomas Gruban

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/06/2025	£12.1m	£37.5m
30/06/2024	£31.7m	£35.3m
30/06/2023	£62.0m	£58.3m
30/06/2022	£140.6m	£79.2m
30/06/2021	£18.6m	£14.1m

Common questions

Is EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity is winding down its operations, with financial statements prepared on a basis other than going concern. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were £62,563, which is below the stated policy target of six months of operating costs, although net current assets were sufficient to cover twelve months of costs. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Who funds EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include FOUR DAUGHTERS CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
FOUR DAUGHTERS CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£50k

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
Founders Pledge Ltd	1	£6.5m
AKO FOUNDATION	1	£2.6m
The Barratt Redrow Foundation	1	£200k
THE PA FOUNDATION	1	£57k
THE PERMIRA FOUNDATION	1	£53k
THE GREEN ROOM CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£10k
CHK Foundation	1	£10k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GIVING WHAT WE CAN UK.

GIVING WHAT WE CAN UK income £8.8m
CHARITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP income £4.3m
FUTURE income £268k
CENTRE FOR ENABLING EA LEARNING & RESEARCH income £284k
THE POINT FOUNDATION income £102k
PURPOSEFUL VENTURES income £17.3m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION	£12.1m	—	—	unclear	—	not going concern
GIVING WHAT WE CAN UK FY2024	£8.8m	—	0	below	—	no doubt
CHARITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP FY2025	£4.3m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
FUTURE FY2025	£268k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
CENTRE FOR ENABLING EA LEARNING & RESEARCH FY2024	£284k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE POINT FOUNDATION FY2025	£102k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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