Common questions about Effective Ventures Foundation's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Effective Ventures Foundation a good charity? +
Effective Ventures Foundation scores 64 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 90% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. 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 Effective Ventures Foundation a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Effective Ventures Foundation as a registered charity (charity number 1149828). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1149828&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 Effective Ventures Foundation's charity number? +
Effective Ventures Foundation's charity number is 1149828. 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 Effective Ventures Foundation's charity rating? +
Effective Ventures Foundation scores 64 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). 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 Effective Ventures Foundation have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Effective Ventures Foundation. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: late accounts filing; sharp income decline). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Effective Ventures Foundation? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 90% of Effective Ventures 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 Effective Ventures Foundation's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 0% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 0% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Effective Ventures Foundation. Effective Ventures Foundation's annual return for the year ending 30 June 2025 reports 20 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (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 Effective Ventures Foundation receive? +
Effective Ventures Foundation reported £12m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: check comparability.
Are Effective Ventures Foundation's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-04-21). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Effective Ventures Foundation based? +
Effective Ventures Foundation's registered contact address is in Oxford (OX2 0DJ). It tells the regulator it operates in Oxfordshire, with a focus on international aid.
How much is Effective Ventures Foundation's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Effective Ventures Foundation's annual return for the year ending 30 June 2025 reports 20 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (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 Effective Ventures Foundation's money come from? +
Effective Ventures Foundation reported £12m total income for the year ending 30 June 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £11m (93%), investments £581k (5%), other income £260k (2%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Effective Ventures Foundation? +
The register records Effective Ventures 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 Effective Ventures Foundation's trustees paid? +
Effective Ventures Foundation's annual return for the year ending 30 June 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Effective Ventures Foundation previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Effective Ventures Foundation: Centre for Effective Altruism.
When was Effective Ventures Foundation registered as a charity? +
Effective Ventures Foundation was entered on the register on 20 November 2012. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 07962181).
How does CharityCompare score Effective Ventures Foundation? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Effective Ventures 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 Effective Ventures Foundation's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.