TRANSITIONZERO

Registered charity 1194424 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ECAA, ENERGY AND CLEAN AIR ANALYTICS, ENERGY AND CLEAN AIR ANALYTICS LTD

TransitionZero is a climate data NGO with a mission to map the path to net zero with satellite imagery and machine learning. We educate stakeholders including financial regulators, policymakers and institutional investors using the data insights achieved through our machine learning model. Our centre of operations is in the UK, however our model tracks emissions worldwide.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£5.3m

Latest spending

£5.1m

Registered

2021

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the independent auditor identified the greatest risk of material impact on the financial statements as being within the timing of recognition of income and the override of controls by management. The auditor performed sample testing on income and journals to address these risks. The report does not disclose specific financial health metrics such as reserves or fundraising costs in this excerpt.

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

What the accounts disclose

Governance: The document mentions reviewing regulatory correspondence with the Charity Commission and risks of irregularities, but does not explicitly state a serious incident, regulator engagement (other than routine review), or late filing admission.

“We identified the greatest risk of material impact on the financial statements from irregularities, including fraud, to be within the timing of recognition of income, and the override of controls by management. Our audit procedures to respond to these risks included enquiries of management and the trustees about their own identification and assessment of the risks of irregularities, sample testing on the posting of journals, reviewing accounting estimates for biases, reviewing regulatory correspondence with the Charity Commission, reading minutes of meetings of those charged with governance.” — page 18

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Total income

£5.3m

Total spending

£5.1m

Reserves (reported)

£1.3m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Fiona Louise Howarthchair
Endre Olsvik Elvestad
Geoffrey Sinclair
Ho Yan Yulanda Chung
Matthew Christopher Gray
Udit Gandhi

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

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

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2026	£5.3m	£5.1m
31/03/2025	£4.8m	£4.4m
31/03/2024	£3.1m	£2.9m
31/03/2023	£2.0m	£1.9m
30/03/2022	£2.5m	£1.6m

Common questions

Is TRANSITIONZERO financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the independent auditor identified the greatest risk of material impact on the financial statements as being within the timing of recognition of income and the override of controls by management. The auditor performed sample testing on income and journals to address these risks. The report does not disclose specific financial health metrics such as reserves or fundraising costs in this excerpt. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Who funds TRANSITIONZERO?

Funders whose own accounts filings name TRANSITIONZERO as a grant recipient include QUADRATURE CLIMATE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount
QUADRATURE CLIMATE FOUNDATION	FY2023	£9.5m
QUADRATURE CLIMATE FOUNDATION	FY2022	£1.4m
QUADRATURE CLIMATE FOUNDATION	FY2021	£1.3m
QUADRATURE CLIMATE FOUNDATION	FY2024	£0

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE JD FOUNDATION	1	£561k
THE ONSIDE FOUNDATION	1	£452k
SUSANNA PEAKE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£200k
THE BRANCH TRUST, CHIPPING NORTON (CIO)	1	£78k
CALISEN IMPACT CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£71k
YOUNG MANCHESTER	1	£68k
OGLESBY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£40k
THE TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION	1	£30k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PROJECT ZERO OCEAN MOVEMENT LIMITED.

PROJECT ZERO OCEAN MOVEMENT LIMITED income £214k
CHAPTER ZERO ALLIANCE income £3.2m
TRANSITION NETWORK income £1.0m
ZERO GRAVITY FUND income £438k
CHK Foundation income £3.2m
THE MANCHESTER YOUTH ZONE LIMITED income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
TRANSITIONZERO	£5.3m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
PROJECT ZERO OCEAN MOVEMENT LIMITED FY2023	£214k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
CHAPTER ZERO ALLIANCE FY2025	£3.2m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
TRANSITION NETWORK FY2025	£1.0m	Under £60,000	0	above	—	no doubt
ZERO GRAVITY FUND FY2025	£438k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
CHK Foundation FY2025	£3.2m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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