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the education endowment foundation

The charity supports children and young people and other charities or voluntary bodies. The Education Endowment Foundation is a registered charity whose purpose is education and training. It delivers its work by making grants to organisations. The charity is based in London and operates in England.


This page summarises publicly available information about the charity, including its activities, beneficiaries, and registration details, based on official records.

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Activities & Mission

The advancement of education for the benefit of the public by a) making grants to schools other not for profit organisations to fund projects which seek to address low educational attainment; and b) supporting and disseminating the results of research in to ways to mitigate the factors that cause or contribute to, and successful strategies for dealing with, low educational attainment.

Fundraising

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Financial Information

Latest Income
£17,639,836
Latest Expenditure
£30,229,566

Financial Efficiency

Program Ratio 167.6%
% of income going directly to charitable activities
Overall Efficiency 97.8%
% of expenditure going to programs (vs overhead)
Administrative Ratio 2.7%
Overhead (fundraising + governance) as % of total expenditure

Latest Financial Breakdown

Income Sources

Donations & Legacies £17,214,243
Charitable Activities £0
Other Trading £287,906
Investments £137,687
Other Income £0

Expenditure Categories

Charitable Expenditure £29,558,640
Raising Funds £670,926
Governance £130,848
Grants to Institutions £20,791,434
Other Expenditure £0

Financial Trend

Annual Returns

Financial YearIncomeExpenditureCharitable SpendingNet AssetsReservesStaff
2024£17,639,836£30,229,566£29,558,640£178,005,419£171,300,32594 / 0
2023£156,082,139£30,946,898£30,490,733£177,615,449£176,137,95383 / 0
2022£34,096,991£57,266,470£56,801,228£52,638,082£49,588,20364 / 0
2021£42,672,520£35,354,334£34,818,110£75,750,316£56,179,49848 / 0
2020£8,949,067£21,117,869£20,544,212£59,728,296£57,800,00039 / 0

Staff column shows: Employees / Volunteers