Common questions about National Art Collections Fund's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is National Art Collections Fund a good charity? +
National Art Collections Fund scores 89 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 94% 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 National Art Collections Fund a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists National Art Collections Fund as a registered charity (charity number 209174). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=209174&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 National Art Collections Fund's charity number? +
National Art Collections Fund's charity number is 209174. 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 National Art Collections Fund's charity rating? +
National Art Collections Fund scores 89 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 National Art Collections Fund have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for National Art Collections 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.
How much of my donation reaches National Art Collections Fund? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 94% of National Art Collections 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.
What are National Art Collections Fund's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 6% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 6% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at National Art Collections Fund. National Art Collections Fund's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 12 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (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 National Art Collections Fund receive? +
National Art Collections Fund reported £18m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are National Art Collections Fund's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-09-09). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is National Art Collections Fund based? +
National Art Collections Fund's registered contact address is in London (N1C 4BH). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on arts & culture.
How much is National Art Collections Fund's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. National Art Collections Fund's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 12 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (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 National Art Collections Fund's money come from? +
National Art Collections Fund reported £18m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £9.6m (52%), donations and legacies £8.1m (44%), investments £366k (2%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £3.2m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to National Art Collections Fund? +
The register records National Art Collections Fund 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 National Art Collections Fund's trustees paid? +
National Art Collections Fund's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was National Art Collections Fund registered as a charity? +
National Art Collections Fund was entered on the register on 16 October 1962.
How does CharityCompare score National Art Collections Fund? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in National Art Collections 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.
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 National Art Collections 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.