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title: "Why only charities over £100k income? | CharityCompare"
description: "A full Clarity Score needs detailed annual-return fields, which UK regulators typically publish for larger charities."
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# Why only charities over £100k income?

**In short:** A full Clarity Score needs detailed annual-return fields, which UK regulators typically publish for larger charities. Smaller organisations, and some OSCR/CCNI records, still have a free basic register profile — we do not invent a score from thin data.

Data from [CharityCompare editorial](https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/), last updated 12 August 2026.

CharityCompare is not an England-and-Wales-only directory, and it is not a list of only large brands.

**Rated profiles** (a 0–100 Clarity Score and beacon breakdown) need the detailed fields in an annual return — spending splits, reserves, trustees, filing history. Those fields are most consistently published for charities with income of **£100,000 and above**, especially on the Charity Commission register.

**Basic profiles** cover every other registered charity we ingest from the Charity Commission, OSCR and CCNI: official name, number, and a link to the register. That is deliberate. Inventing a score from a thin record would be less honest than saying “not enough published data.”

If you are checking a small local charity, start at [search](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/search) or the [directory](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/charity-directory), verify the number, and read whatever accounts exist on the register. See [Scotland and Northern Ireland coverage](https://www.charitycompare.org.uk/answers/scotland-ni-coverage).

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