Common questions about The Gorilla Organization's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Gorilla Organization a good charity? +
The Gorilla Organization scores 59 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 48% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. 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 Gorilla Organization a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Gorilla Organization as a registered charity (charity number 1117131). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1117131&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 Gorilla Organization's charity number? +
The Gorilla Organization's charity number is 1117131. 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 Gorilla Organization's charity rating? +
The Gorilla Organization scores 59 out of 100 on CharityCompare (2 stars — Poor). 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 Gorilla Organization have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Gorilla Organization. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: late accounts filing; high fundraising costs). 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 Gorilla Organization? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 48% of The Gorilla Organization'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 Gorilla Organization's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 52% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 53% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Gorilla Organization. The Gorilla Organization's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Gorilla Organization receive? +
The Gorilla Organization reported £2.0m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Gorilla Organization's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-10-17). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Gorilla Organization based? +
The Gorilla Organization's registered contact address is in London (NW1 8HX). It tells the regulator it operates in Camden, Uganda, Congo (Democratic Republic), with a focus on animals.
How much is The Gorilla Organization's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Gorilla Organization's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Gorilla Organization's money come from? +
The Gorilla Organization reported £2m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were donations and legacies £1.9m (97%), investments £52k (3%), trading and fundraising events £1,623 (0%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £789k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Gorilla Organization? +
The register records The Gorilla Organization 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 Gorilla Organization's trustees paid? +
The Gorilla Organization'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 Gorilla Organization registered as a charity? +
The Gorilla Organization was entered on the register on 5 December 2006. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 05988371).
How does CharityCompare score The Gorilla Organization? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Gorilla Organization'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 Gorilla Organization'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.