Founders Pledge Ltd

Registered charity 1162201 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q23016868 · Wikipedia · also known as FFFG, FOUNDERS FOR GOOD LTD, FOUNDERS FORUM FOR GOOD LIMITED

We support the charitable sector by improving the efficiency/effectiveness of methods used to secure charitable resources, in particular by raising awareness in the digital business community. We are also advancing the education of individuals and organisations working in the tech/digital sectors as to the ways in which their business and experience could help to improve charity effectiveness.

Objects

5.1 THE ONLY OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO FURTHER SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSE(S) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY: 5.1 THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY; 5.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION; 5.3 THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH OR THE SAVING OF LIVES; 5.4 THE ADVANCEMENT OF CITIZENSHIP OR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; 5.5 THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE; 5.6 THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, CONFLICT RESOLUTION OR RECONCILIATION; 5.7 THE ADVANCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OR IMPROVEMENT; 5.8 THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; 5.9 THE ADVANCEMENT OF ANIMAL WELFARE; 5.10 THE SOCIAL RELIEF, RESETTLEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF PERSONS UNDER A DISABILITY OR DEPRIVATION (INCLUDING DISASTER FUNDS);5.11 THE PROMOTION OF ETHICAL STANDARDS OF CONDUCT AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW IN THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS; AND 5.12 THE REHABILITATION OF EX-OFFENDERS AND THE PREVENTION OF CRIME. RELEVANT DEFINITION (SEE ARTICLE 1): CHARITABLE PURPOSE: SHALL HAVE THE MEANING ASSIGNED TO IT BY THE LAW FOR THE TIME BEING IN FORCE IN ENGLAND AND WALES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trustees are responsible for preparing financial statements on a going concern basis, with no explicit material uncertainty or doubt regarding the charity's ability to continue in business disclosed in the provided text. The financial statements were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP, who issued a report confirming their statutory auditor role, though specific financial figures for reserves, income, or expenditure are not included in the provided excerpts.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08565148
• Trading subsidiary: FOUNDERS PLEDGE TRADING LIMITED Companies House 13894745

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Charlotte Monico — CEO (source)
• David Goldberg — Founder & President (source)
• Vikrant Bhargava — Chair of the Board of Trustees (source)
• Danielle Bayer — Chair of US Board of Directors (source)
• Alex Sajben — Director, Advising (source)
• Annette Chau — Strategy and Operations Director (source)
• Diane Sheard — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Ellen MacKay — Chief Product Officer (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.

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.

• WHITE, Andrew Patrick — director, appointed 01/04/2026on trustee list
• HAUG, Johan Andreas — director, appointed 20/09/2024on trustee list
• PLATTS, Erin Marie — director, appointed 20/05/2024on trustee list
• MCKELVEY, Anna — director, appointed 17/01/2024on trustee list
• MORTON, Isobel — director, appointed 01/12/2023on trustee list
• BHARGAVA, Vikrant — director, appointed 23/04/2020on trustee list
• DING, Luke Hsi Lin — director, appointed 23/04/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 2.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Vikrant Bhargavachair
• Andrew Patrick White
• Anna McKelvey
• Isobel Morton
• Johan Andreas Haug
• Luke Hsi Lin Ding

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

Operates in: Germany · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 CHARITIES ADMINISTERED BY THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF FOUNDERS.

• CHARITIES ADMINISTERED BY THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF FOUNDERS income £99k
• Funders Together income £1.2m
• CHARITY DIGITAL TRUST income £2.7m
• CHARITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP income £4.3m
• FREDERICKS FOUNDATION income £78k
• FUNDERS IN GOOD income £684k

Side by side with its peers

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