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Registered charity · London

The Education Endowment Foundation

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £52m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Education Endowment Foundation
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£52m£32m
  • 2024£18m£30m
  • 2023£156m£31m
Earlier years
  • 2022£34m£57m
  • 2021£43m£35m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 92%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3.1 THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY:(A) MAKING GRANTS TO SCHOOLS, LOCAL AUTHORITIES, CHARITIES, SOCIAL ENTERPRISES AND OTHER VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR ORGANISATIONS TO FUND PROJECTS WHICH SEEK TO ADDRESS LOW EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; AND(B) SUPPORTING AND DISSEMINATING THE RESULTS OF RESEARCH INTO WAYS TO MITIGATE THE FACTORS THAT CAUSE OR CONTRIBUTE TO, AND SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES FOR DEALING WITH, LOW EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT.

Grants received

6 grants · £10,963,980 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

  • Cabinet Office £176,9702022-06-01
  • Cabinet Office £77,0282022-06-01
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation £100,0002020-04-29
  • Department for Education £2,000,0002020-04-01
  • Department for Education £8,054,4652020-04-01
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.

8 trustees on the board

3.5y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (3)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 8Arts/culture/heritage/science 2General Charitable Purposes 2

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

Education 29Finance 8Dormant 6

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£52.4m latest income
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.

73.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 19.1 in 2021

107 from 48 in 2021
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
1142111
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01/04/2011 as amended on 08 Nov 2021 as amended on 02 Nov 2022
Companies House
Company number 07587909 · Active
Contact on the register
02045363999 · info@eefoundation.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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