Common questions about The Francis Crick Institute Limited's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Francis Crick Institute Limited a good charity? +
The Francis Crick Institute Limited scores 85 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 99% 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 Francis Crick Institute Limited a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Francis Crick Institute Limited as a registered charity (charity number 1140062). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1140062&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 Francis Crick Institute Limited's charity number? +
The Francis Crick Institute Limited's charity number is 1140062. 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 Francis Crick Institute Limited's charity rating? +
The Francis Crick Institute Limited scores 85 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 The Francis Crick Institute Limited have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Francis Crick Institute Limited. 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 Francis Crick Institute Limited? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 99% of The Francis Crick Institute Limited'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 Francis Crick Institute Limited's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 1% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 1% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Francis Crick Institute Limited. The Francis Crick Institute Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 337 employees paid more than £60,000, including 77 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £450,001–£500,000 (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 The Francis Crick Institute Limited receive? +
The Francis Crick Institute Limited reported £246m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Francis Crick Institute Limited's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-21). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Francis Crick Institute Limited based? +
The Francis Crick Institute Limited's registered contact address is in London (NW1 1AT). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on arts & culture.
How much is The Francis Crick Institute Limited's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Francis Crick Institute Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 337 employees paid more than £60,000, including 77 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £450,001–£500,000 (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 The Francis Crick Institute Limited's money come from? +
The Francis Crick Institute Limited reported £246m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £224m (91%), trading and fundraising events £15m (6%), investments £3.5m (1%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £1.1m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Francis Crick Institute Limited? +
The register records The Francis Crick Institute Limited 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 Francis Crick Institute Limited's trustees paid? +
The Francis Crick Institute Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was The Francis Crick Institute Limited previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for The Francis Crick Institute Limited: Ukcmri; Ukcmri (United Kingdom Centre for Medical Research and Innovation); Ukcmri Limited.
When was The Francis Crick Institute Limited registered as a charity? +
The Francis Crick Institute Limited was entered on the register on 26 January 2011. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 06885462).
How does CharityCompare score The Francis Crick Institute Limited? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Francis Crick Institute Limited'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 Francis Crick Institute Limited'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.