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Breakthrough Foundation

Breakthrough Foundation is a registered charity (number 1162536) based in London, governed by 4 trustees and chaired by Svetlana Pavlova since 2014. Latest income £40m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £40m (2025)
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About

What it does
Other Charitable Purposes
Where
City Of London, Israel, United States
Linked company
Breakthrough Foundation
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£40m£39m
  • 2024£50m£52m
  • 2023£85m£90m
Earlier years
  • 2022£52m£46m
  • 2021£49m£46m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

1. FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING IN RESEARCH OF USEFUL SUBJECTS OF STUDY BY:• GRANTING AWARDS FOR UNDERTAKING RESEARCH AND DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL RESULTS TO THE PUBLIC; AND• RECOGNISING OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS IN RESEARCH TO ACT AS AN INCENTIVE TO OTHERS.2. TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

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.

4 trustees on the board

6y median 4y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

4
company-linked trustees

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

Other Charitable Purposes 4

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

Other services 4Finance 2Professional services 2

Gaps to watch

  • 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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£50.0m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

0
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
1162536
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01 DEC 2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 25/06/2015 as amended on 15 Jun 2020 as amended on 18 Jul 2022 as amended on 23 Dec 2022
Companies House
Company number 09335387 · Active
Contact on the register
02073181180 · atulloch@atulloch.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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