THE EARTHSHOT PRIZE

Registered charity 1198701 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Running the Earthshot Prize which is a charitable prize awarded to organisations and individuals doing exceptional environmental work across the world. The prize includes a grant which the Charity administers, as well as monitoring the performance and impact of the prize.

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity returned a net surplus of £1.8m for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total reserves increasing to £8.8m. The charity operates with a 97% charitable expenditure ratio and holds free reserves of £7.4m, which exceed its stated policy target of six to nine months of annual operating expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• The Earthshot Prize Appoints Smita Rakesh as Director of India hrtoday.in · 05/08/2026
• The Stelios Philanthropic Foundation joins The Earthshot Prize as a Founding Partner earthshotprize.org · 18/10/2025

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 13981670
• Trading subsidiary: TEP TRADING LIMITED Companies House 14098707

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• HRH Prince William — President (source)
• David Fein — Vice Chair (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).

• The Royal Foundation — “That’s why, in 2020, he launched The Earthshot Prize after two years of work with The Royal Foundation, to develop a landmark project suppor…” (source page)

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.

• BRODIN, Jesper Mattias — director, appointed 02/03/2026on trustee list
• SILVEIRA MUFAREJ, Eduardo — director, appointed 01/09/2025not on trustee list
• LEWIS, Richard Wayne — director, appointed 13/03/2024on trustee list
• PATRICK, Ian John — director, appointed 04/03/2024not on trustee list
• ARDERN, Jacinda Kate Laurell, Rt Hon — director, appointed 20/04/2023on trustee list
• MUTTULINGAM, Sanjayan — director, appointed 04/07/2022on trustee list
• WARE, Zoë Alexandra — director, appointed 04/07/2022not on trustee list
• ISHMAEL, 'Tokunboh — director, appointed 16/03/2022on trustee list
• FEIN, David — director, appointed 16/03/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 3.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jesper Brodinchair
• David Fein
• Eduardo Silveira Mufarej
• Ian John Patrick MBE
• RICHARD WAYNE LEWIS · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rt Hon Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern
• Sanjayan Muttulingam
• Tokunboh Ishmael
• Zoe Alexandra Ware MVO

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE EARTHSONG FOUNDATION.

• THE EARTHSONG FOUNDATION income £323k
• EARTH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £417k
• EARTH TRUST income £2.6m
• EARTHPERCENT income £917k
• FRIENDS OF THE EARTH CHARITABLE TRUST income £15.3m
• INITIATIVE EARTH income £375k

Side by side with its peers

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