Global Innovation Fund

Global Innovation Fund scores 81 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 87% 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.

The register data used for this profile lists Global Innovation Fund as a registered charity (charity number 1171353). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1171353&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.

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Global Innovation Fund scores 81 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.

CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Global Innovation Fund. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 87% of Global Innovation Fund'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.

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 4% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 12% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Global Innovation Fund. Global Innovation Fund's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 19 employees paid more than £60,000, including 7 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £300,001–£350,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.

Global Innovation Fund reported £17m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.

Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-31). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.

Global Innovation Fund's registered contact address is in London (EC2M 4PL). It tells the regulator it operates in Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, with a focus on international aid.

The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Global Innovation Fund's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 19 employees paid more than £60,000, including 7 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £300,001–£350,000 (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.

Global Innovation Fund reported £17m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were donations and legacies £16m (98%), investments £379k (2%).

The register does not record Global Innovation Fund as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.

Global Innovation Fund's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.

Global Innovation Fund was entered on the register on 27 January 2017. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 09223487).

We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Global Innovation Fund'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.

This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Global Innovation Fund'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.