Common questions about Animals Asia Foundation's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Animals Asia Foundation a good charity? +
Animals Asia Foundation scores 85 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 65% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is Animals Asia Foundation a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Animals Asia Foundation as a registered charity (charity number 1086903). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1086903&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is Animals Asia Foundation's charity number? +
Animals Asia Foundation's charity number is 1086903. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is Animals Asia Foundation's charity rating? +
Animals Asia Foundation scores 85 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does Animals Asia Foundation have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Animals Asia Foundation. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: high fundraising costs). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Animals Asia Foundation? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 65% of Animals Asia Foundation's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are Animals Asia Foundation's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 35% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 36% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Animals Asia Foundation. Animals Asia Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Animals Asia Foundation receive? +
Animals Asia Foundation reported £6.0m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Animals Asia Foundation's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-14). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Animals Asia Foundation based? +
Animals Asia Foundation's registered contact address is in York (YO26 7NH). It tells the regulator it operates in China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, with a focus on animals.
How much is Animals Asia Foundation's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Animals Asia Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does Animals Asia Foundation's money come from? +
Animals Asia Foundation reported £4.7m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £4.7m (100%), trading and fundraising events £3,071 (0%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £580k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Animals Asia Foundation? +
The register records Animals Asia Foundation as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are Animals Asia Foundation's trustees paid? +
Animals Asia Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Animals Asia Foundation registered as a charity? +
Animals Asia Foundation was entered on the register on 5 June 2001. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 04185603).
How does CharityCompare score Animals Asia Foundation? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Animals Asia Foundation's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Animals Asia Foundation's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.