Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 5

Poor Liquidity: -1
Good Reserves: +1Multiple Deficits: -2
Fundraising costs low: +3

Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 9

THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE LIMITED

The Francis Crick Institute is dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Our work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections and neurodegenerative diseases.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end but unrestricted reserves are available
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff
31/03/23	£213,189	£210,291	£2,898	£1,043	£567,557	£492,387	28.1	1,513
31/03/22	£185,630	£197,378	£-11,748	£531	£565,982	£496,568	30.2	1,459
31/03/21	£174,940	£188,001	£-13,061	£245	£575,395	£522,153	33.3	1,437
31/03/20	£164,524	£189,063	£-24,539	£42	£582,250	£546,239	34.7	1,410
31/03/19	£184,020	£180,249	£3,771	£9	£609,445	£572,415	38.1	1,367
31/03/18	£146,627	£175,161	£-28,534	£0	£605,674	£600,494	41.1	1,294
31/03/17	£160,609	£168,169	£-7,560	£0	£634,208	£630,026	45	1,260
31/03/16	£148,636	£128,464	£20,172	£0	£640,345	£637,330	59.5	1,177
31/03/15	£9,356	£16,232	£-6,876	£616	£545,258	£544,591	402.6	57
31/03/14	£3,272	£9,289	£-6,017	£466	£450,756	£450,574	582.1	37
31/03/13	£3,376	£6,843	£-3,467	£427	£226,064	£226,014	396.3	23
31/03/12	£2,346	£5,346	£-3,000	£535	£118,473	£118,423	265.8	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 13%
Highest pay band: £400,000-£450,000
Liabilities/Assets: 11%
Liabilities/Income: 34%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 87%
Reserves/Spending: 28.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -0 months
Quick Ratio: 0.2

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Established: 13 years

www.crick.ac.uk

info@crick.ac.uk

02037960000

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

Medical education & research

How it operates

Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

1,513 employees

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to The Francis Crick Institute
£1,100,000	07/12/2022	Automated stem cell culture system
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to The Francis Crick Institute
£0	09/12/2021	Fellowship Award of * over 5 years made to one fellow, Autoimmunity Laboratory, under the Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellowship Awards. WF contributing * (50% of total)
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to The Francis Crick Institute
£1,000,000	05/12/2019	Equipment to enable single-cell analysis and research, including an Illumina next generation sequencer
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - High content FLIM, FRET, and localisation imaging to characterise inter-cellular heterogeneity in PI3K signalling to glycolysis in breast cancer
£242,676	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=NS/A000079/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Stochastic fluctuations during mammary development and breast cancer morphogenesis
£1,517,920	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/T003103/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Pre-clinical development of a hematopoietic stem cell therapy product
£132,163	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=133873
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Idea to Innovation (i2i) The Crick translation scheme
£450,000	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MC_PC_18062
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Proposal for a Talos L120C G2 Transmission Electron Microscope
£379,550	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/S019707/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Francis Crick Institute Confidence in Concept 2019
£647,400	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MC_PC_19038
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Characterisation of the role of NG2-glia and microglia in hypothalamo-pituitary axis coupling.
£307,570	01/04/2019	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=MR/T000759/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Sex-determining mechanisms in the chick
£314,751	01/04/2018	To support high quality research
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - The Opera Phenix Microscope for High Content Screening Applications
£235,955	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/R013799/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Regulation of astroglial branch morphogenesis during visual circuit assembly in Drosophila
£399,349	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=BB/S00386X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - The use of human monoclonal antibodies to inform and enhance influenza vaccine virus selection.
£334,359	18/08/2017	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=MR/P021336/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Light Sheet Microscopy for Developmental Biology
£150,000	15/08/2017	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=BB/R000670/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Lethal renal cell carcinoma sub-clones: Defining mechanisms of tumour evolution, treatment resistance and immune escape.
£134,023	01/08/2017	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=MR/P014712/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Altered Chloride homeostasis in Reactive plasticity upOn BrAin Trauma
£65,194	01/06/2017	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=MR/R001197/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Connect to Crick ? SME collaboration
£75,000	01/03/2017	[Placeholder]
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Understanding the biophysical basis of cellular shape change during mitosis
£82,903	01/03/2017	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=NS/A000045/5
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Crick Idea to Innovation (i2i)
£168,000	01/03/2017	[Placeholder]
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Francis Crick Institute
£299,700	17/09/2014	The Story of the Crick

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How is it governed?

Trustees (12)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 11/12 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 53-76

DR JOHN-ARNE ROTTINGEN Appointed: 2024

DR MENELAS NICOLAS PANGALOS Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Scientist

LORD EDMUND JOHN PHILLIP BROWNE (Chair) Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Businessman, Other trusteeships: THE JOHN BROWNE CHARITABLE TRUST, HOLOCAUST EDUCATIONAL TRUST,

PROFESSOR MARY PATRICIA RYAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: University Lecturer

PROFESSOR PATRICK FRANCIS CHINNERY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Executive Chair, Medical Research Council

CATHERINE ELIZABETH BINGHAM Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Managing Partner

DR IAIN FOULKES Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Executive Director Cruk/ Ceo Crt, Other trusteeship: IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND,

ISABELLE EALET Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired

PROFESSOR GERAINT ELLIS REES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: University Professor/Hospital Doctor, Other trusteeship: THE ALAN TURING INSTITUTE,

PROFESSOR RICHARD CHARLES TREMBATH Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Clinical Academic

SIR ADRIAN PETER BIRD Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Professor, Other trusteeship: THE LISTER INSTITUTE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE,

DR BRIAN GILVARY Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Finance Director, Other trusteeship: THE ROYAL NAVY AND ROYAL MARINES CHARITY,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 26/01/2011, number: 1140062
Registered at Companies House on 23/04/2009, number: 06885462

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

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Filing Record

12 returns made; all on time

Main office

The Francis Crick Institute
1 Midland Road
London
NW1 1AT

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN HEALTH AND EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROMOTION AND CARRYING OUT, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, OF ALL ASPECTS OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE IN PARTICULAR THE FOLLOWING:1 ESTABLISHING, OPERATING AND MANAGING A CENTRE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION;2 ENGAGING IN, ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING:2.1 RESEARCH INTO ANY OF THE BIOSCIENCES; 2.2 THE DISCOVERY, INVENTION, IMPROVEMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF PREVENTIONS, TREATMENTS, CURES, DIAGNOSTICS AND OTHER MEDICAL AGENTS, METHODS AND PROCESSES THAT MAY IN ANY WAY PREVENT OR RELIEVE ILLNESS, DISEASE, DISABILITY OR DISORDERS OF WHATEVER NATURE (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL FORMS OF CANCER); AND 3 DEVELOPING AND TRAINING SCIENTISTS AND SUPPORTING BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ENDEAVOURS.

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