CLEAN AIR FUND

Registered charity 1183697 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Clean Air Fund brings together philanthropic resources to improve air quality globally. It co-ordinates a collective strategy for air pollution activity, provides grant funding to a multi-national portfolio of clean air programmes, grants funds to research and knowledge-building activities, and provides a means of knowledge sharing and networking between stakeholders.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of $19.8m, bringing total net assets to $44.5m. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of $6.7m are considered within the stated policy target of four to six months of unrestricted operational costs. The trustees confirm the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with adequate resources to continue operations.

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 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 32 (FY2024) → 35 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jane Burston OBE — CEO (source)
• Sietske van der Ploeg — Chief Impact Officer (source)
• Venetia Bell — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Cecilia Vaca Jones — Executive Director of Breathe Cities (source)
• Maria‑Krystyna Duval — Executive Director for Europe (source)
• Sean Maguire — Executive Director, Strategic Partnerships (source)
• Shirish Sinha — Executive Director of Programmes (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• IKEA Foundation — “There are foundations that hold a lot of weight in multiple sectors, foundations that have invested for decades in livelihoods, development,…” (source page)

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

Reported reserves equal ~12.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Katherine Lucy Garrett-Coxchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gunjan Shah
• Milenna Nikolova
• Sellah Bogonko
• Stelios Kyriakakis

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

Operates in: Brazil · Bulgaria · China · France · Ghana · India · Northern Ireland · Poland · Scotland · Spain · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ASSOCIATION OF AIR AMBULANCES (CHARITY) LTD.

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• THE PURI FOUNDATION income £5.3m
• CLEANCONSCIENCE income £108k
• THE PERIVOLI FOUNDATION income £3.5m
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• HUBBUB FOUNDATION UK income £7.4m

Side by side with its peers

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