Founders Pledge Ltd

Registered charity 1162201 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · 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.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £245,809,417, resulting in a net movement in funds of £90,565,499. The charity holds unrestricted funds of £17,245,979, which the trustees report represents 19 months of expected operations, well above their minimum reserves policy of 12 months.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 2.7 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Vikrant Bhargavachair
• Andrew Patrick White
• Anna McKelvey
• Erin Marie Platts
• 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.

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Side by side with its peers

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