OCEAN FAMILY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1174759 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Ocean Family Foundation funds and actively supports a variety of sustainable marine conservation programs

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased from £263,314 to £113,750 during the year, driven by charitable expenditure exceeding incoming donations. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The charity does not actively engage in fundraising activities and relies on donations to fund its grant-making objectives.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Getty Images — “Getty Images has kindly donated images to Ocean Family Foundation.” (source page)
• North Sails — “North Sails has partnered with Ocean Family Foundation since it was founded in 2018.” (source page)
• Kos Evans Photography — “Kos Evans has kindly donated images to Ocean Family Foundation.” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 29/02/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~7.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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

• David John Till · trustee of 3 other charities
• JESSICA SADGE DIRHAM GETTY
• PETER ADAM DAICHES DUBENS

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

Operates in: Italy · Mozambique · Spain · Tanzania · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• David John Till — trustee here and at PETER DUBENS FAMILY FOUNDATION

Known funders

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

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 PETER DUBENS FAMILY FOUNDATION.

• PETER DUBENS FAMILY FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• LEVINE FAMILY FOUNDATION income £800k
• THE OCTOPUS FOUNDATION income £329k
• 10 % For The Ocean income £146k
• BLUE MARINE FOUNDATION income £13.0m
• THE GOYAL FOUNDATION income £5.0m

Side by side with its peers

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