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Registered charity · London

The Institute for Fiscal Studies

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £13m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Australia, Brazil, Colombia and more
Website
www.ifs.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Institute for Fiscal Studies
Registered
1969

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£13m£12m
  • 2024£11m£11m
  • 2023£10m£9.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£9.2m£8.7m
  • 2021£8.8m£8.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 9% · Government grants 19%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE INSTITUTE ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, BY PROMOTION ON A NON-POLITICAL BASIS OF THE STUDY AND DISCUSSION OF, AND THE EXCHANGE AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING, THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS AND INFLUENCES OF:4.1.1 EXISTING TAXES;4.1.2 PROPOSED CHANGES IN FISCAL SYSTEMS; AND4.1.3 OTHER ASPECTS OF PUBLIC POLICY,IN EACH

Grants received

66 grants · £20,897,702 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

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £7,057,707 (22 grants)
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office · £5,137,206 (12 grants)
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £4,159,034 (19 grants)
  • Nuffield Foundation · £3,932,322 (9 grants)
  • Department for International Development · £411,083 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £1,296,7762024-04-01
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £263,3952024-04-01
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £277,4872023-08-04
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £51,7122023-08-02
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £119,2602023-05-22
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.

11 trustees on the board

7.4y median 8y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (3)

10
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 11Economic/community Development/employment 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1General Charitable Purposes 1

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

Professional services 14Finance 6Health and social care 6

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£11.4m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

5.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 3.7 in 2020

86 from 77 in 2020
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.
30%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
258815
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 21/05/1969AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/11/1974AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/05/1999AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 03/12/2013 as amended on 27 Sep 2018
Companies House
Company number 00954616 · Active
Contact on the register
02072914800 · mailbox@ifs.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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