Common questions about The Elton John Aids Foundation's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Elton John Aids Foundation a good charity? +
The Elton John Aids Foundation scores 72 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 81% 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 The Elton John Aids Foundation a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Elton John Aids Foundation as a registered charity (charity number 1017336). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1017336&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 The Elton John Aids Foundation's charity number? +
The Elton John Aids Foundation's charity number is 1017336. 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 The Elton John Aids Foundation's charity rating? +
The Elton John Aids Foundation scores 72 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 The Elton John Aids Foundation have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Elton John Aids Foundation. 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 The Elton John Aids Foundation? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 81% of The Elton John Aids 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 The Elton John Aids Foundation's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 19% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 19% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Elton John Aids Foundation. The Elton John Aids Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 18 employees paid more than £60,000, including 9 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £250,001–£300,000 (2 employees). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does The Elton John Aids Foundation receive? +
The Elton John Aids Foundation reported £23m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Elton John Aids Foundation's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-23). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Elton John Aids Foundation based? +
The Elton John Aids Foundation's registered contact address is in London (EC1V 9HU). It tells the regulator it operates in England, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, with a focus on international aid.
How much is The Elton John Aids Foundation's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Elton John Aids Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 18 employees paid more than £60,000, including 9 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £250,001–£300,000 (2 employees). 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 The Elton John Aids Foundation's money come from? +
The Elton John Aids Foundation reported £23m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were donations and legacies £13m (56%), trading and fundraising events £8.5m (37%), investments £1.7m (7%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £1,798.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Elton John Aids Foundation? +
The register records The Elton John Aids 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 The Elton John Aids Foundation's trustees paid? +
The Elton John Aids Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was The Elton John Aids Foundation registered as a charity? +
The Elton John Aids Foundation was entered on the register on 12 February 1993. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02787008).
How does CharityCompare score The Elton John Aids Foundation? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Elton John Aids 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 The Elton John Aids 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.