Common questions about International Fellowship of Evangelical Students's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is International Fellowship of Evangelical Students a good charity? +
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students scores 77 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 93% 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 International Fellowship of Evangelical Students a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists International Fellowship of Evangelical Students as a registered charity (charity number 247919). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=247919&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 International Fellowship of Evangelical Students's charity number? +
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students's charity number is 247919. 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 International Fellowship of Evangelical Students's charity rating? +
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students scores 77 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 International Fellowship of Evangelical Students have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. 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.
How much of my donation reaches International Fellowship of Evangelical Students? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 93% of International Fellowship of Evangelical Students'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 International Fellowship of Evangelical Students's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 7% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 7% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. International Fellowship of Evangelical Students's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £70,001–£80,000 (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 International Fellowship of Evangelical Students receive? +
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students reported £7.6m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are International Fellowship of Evangelical Students's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-10). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is International Fellowship of Evangelical Students based? +
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students's registered contact address is in Oxford (OX1 4EE). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Australia, Benin, Brazil, Canada, Germany, with a focus on religion.
How much is International Fellowship of Evangelical Students's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. International Fellowship of Evangelical Students's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £70,001–£80,000 (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 International Fellowship of Evangelical Students's money come from? +
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students reported £7.6m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were donations and legacies £7.3m (96%), investments £171k (2%), charitable activities £73k (1%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £113k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to International Fellowship of Evangelical Students? +
The register records International Fellowship of Evangelical Students 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 International Fellowship of Evangelical Students's trustees paid? +
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was International Fellowship of Evangelical Students previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for International Fellowship of Evangelical Students: I F E S Trust; I F E S Trust Limited.
When was International Fellowship of Evangelical Students registered as a charity? +
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students was entered on the register on 13 June 1966. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00876229).
How does CharityCompare score International Fellowship of Evangelical Students? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in International Fellowship of Evangelical Students'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 International Fellowship of Evangelical Students'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.