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JEREMY COLLER FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1163970 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Three key areas of focus: 1) Educating on Factory Farming 2) Supporting the Coller School of Management and 3) Supporting Education, Culture and Other Causes

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Latest income
£12.0m
Latest spending
£13.0m
Registered
2015
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total reserves of £175,591,029, comprising an expendable endowment of £110,042,990 and unrestricted general funds of £8,748,151. The trustees consider it prudent to retain unrestricted reserves to cover approximately six months of estimated operating expenses, which the general funds represent. The charity reported a net income for the year of £19,679,648 following significant investment gains and donations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months of estimated operating expenses (held: £8.7m)
“The Trustees do however consider it prudent to retain unrestricted reserves to cover approximately six months of estimated operating expenses.” — page 14
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Grant to The JC Eudaimonia Foundation
“The Foundation granted £230,000 to The JC Eudaimonia Foundation, a charity and company limited by guarantee incorporated in England, an entity in which some of the Foundation’s trustees also serve as trustees.” — page 46
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Coller FAIRR Limited
“The Foundation incorporated a wholly owned subsidiary, Coller FAIRR Ltd, on 31 st January 2024, which began trading in April 2024. The principal activity of the company in the period under review was consultancy services.” — page 8
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

COLLER FAIRR LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts
  • Turnover: £85k
  • Profit before tax: £57k
  • Donated/gift-aided to the charity: £57k
  • Costs charged by parent charity: £18,547 (outstanding creditor)
“the directors have agreed to distribute all profits to its parent undertaking as a charitable contribution, the Jeremy Coller Foundation, a payment of £57,484, within six months of the year end.”

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Official officers record.

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

Total income
£33.7m
Total spending
£13.0m
Cost of raising funds
£409k
Reserves (reported)
£65.2m
Employees
54

Reported reserves equal ~60.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

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

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£12.0m£13.0m
31/03/2024£19.8m£9.3m
31/03/2023£57.9m£7.1m
31/03/2022£56.2m£4.9m
31/03/2021£3.8m£4.7m

Common questions

Is JEREMY COLLER FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held total reserves of £175,591,029, comprising an expendable endowment of £110,042,990 and unrestricted general funds of £8,748,151. The trustees consider it prudent to retain unrestricted reserves to cover approximately six months of estimated operating expenses, which the general funds represent. The charity reported a net income for the year of £19,679,648 following significant investment gains and donations. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP.

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
CML - CHEVRAS MO'OZ LADOL1£30k

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Coller Family Foundation.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
JEREMY COLLER FOUNDATION£12.0m——above—no doubt
Coller Family Foundation FY2025£230k—0below—no doubt
THE JOLLY FOUNDATION FY2025£5.6m—0unclear—no doubt
THE JONATHAN TOWLER FOUNDATION FY2026£99k—0unclear—no doubt
The Connolly Foundation (UK) Limited FY2025£14.0m£170,001 - £180,000—unclear—no doubt
THE BLAKEY FOUNDATION FY2025£271k—0unclear—no doubt

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