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Tate Foundation

To support and assist the Tate Gallery in maintaining and expanding its collections and services to scholars, curators, artists and the general public and to assist other artistic endeavours to any extent that in the opinion of Tate Foundation may...

  • 16 trustees
  • Income £6.6m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.tate.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Tate Foundation
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.6m£8.0m
  • 2024£5.4m£8.9m
  • 2023£4.5m£5.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.3m£3.5m
  • 2021£6.7m£4.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

To support and assist the Tate Gallery in maintaining and expanding its collections and services to scholars, curators, artists and the general public and to assist other artistic endeavours to any extent that in the opinion of Tate Foundation may be conducive or compatible with the statutory aims and objectives of Tate Gallery.

Grants received

15 grants · £15,507,040 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

16 trustees on the board

6.9y median 7.5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (15)

Portfolio (1)

15
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 16General Charitable Purposes 16

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 22Finance 21Professional services 12

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£6.6m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

8.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 27.9 in 2021

31
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1085314
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 02 JUN 2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02 MAR 2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19 MAY 2026AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 17 JUN 2026
Companies House
Company number 04009652 · Active
Contact on the register
02078878000 · ana.yiannikas@tate.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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