STANFORD FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED

Registered charity 1205014 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Activities include fundraising and making grants too advance education, in particular, by providing grants to Stanford University and other educational institutions to assist in the advancement of education of students attending the institutions

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY; AND(B) SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £9,669 at the year end, a significant decrease from the previous year's £86,064, following the expenditure of incoming resources on grants. The trustees' policy is to retain no general reserves beyond a minimum of £5,000 required for day-to-day administrative costs. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Nielsens. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 2 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2024 (received 02/09/2025, 64 days after the 30/06/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claude Marcel Lucien Marion
• David Bizer
• Jennifer Good
• Karen Lee Kearney
• Sunaina Haldea

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STANFORD TRUST.

• STANFORD TRUST income £41k
• THE STANFORD SOCIETY income £11k
• STANFORD EDUCATION & CULTURAL ASSOCIATION income £169k
• CORNELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED income £2.7m
• FRIENDS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY income £1.7m
• NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (USA) FOUNDATION LIMITED income £399k

Side by side with its peers

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