Overall GiG Score: 18 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 12
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +12

SUMERIAN FOUNDATION 

Sumerian Foundation supports start up and growing social purpose organisations to tackle social inequality in the UK, and also focuses on social purposes organisations providing healthcare services to people on low incomes in East Africa.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 7 years

www.sumerianfoundation.org

info@sumerianfoundation.org

02071935800

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House

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 Volun-
teers
31/12/22£329£257£72n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/21£339£191£148n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/20£120£191£-72n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/19£526£177£349£0£819£221.500
31/12/18£286£113£173£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/17£300£6£294£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides other finance
Where it operates
  • Kenya, Throughout England And Wales,

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Comic Relief£1,500,000
Esmee Fairbairn£500,000
Barrow Cadbury Trust£30,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Social investment to Sumerian Foundation
£500,000 09/11/2023
Towards project costs Inclusive social investment and mentoring for diverse-led social enterprises in partnership with the Sumerian Foundation, the MariaMarina Foundation and the Access Foundation
Comic Relief - Scaling up the UK Social Inequality Facility
£1,500,000 25/05/2021
36
Bespoke support and equity-like flexible finance to 20 early stage charities and social enterprises
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Disseminating learning from philanthropic capital
£30,000 30/07/2019
5
To engage a wider number of trusts and foundations to build a learning platform for philanthropic capital
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Developing a Learning Platform for Venture Philanthropy
£30,000 20/12/2018
4
To develop a learning platform for venture philanthropy to enable wider access to patient capital for VCSEs in the UK
Comic Relief - Sumerian Foundation - social investment
£400,000 25/09/2018
60
This is a social investment in the Sumerian Foundation to grow their facility which supports the scaling of social enterprises in the UK 10 year investment.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 50-63
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 07/10/2016, number: 1169532
  • Registered at Companies House on 15/06/2016, number: 10234246
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Conflicting interests
  • Risk management
Filing Record
6 returns made; all on time
Main office

TWO TEMPLE PLACE
2 TEMPLE PLACE
LONDON
WC2R 3BD

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO FURTHER ANY PURPOSE WHICH IS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES (PROVIDED THAT THE CHARITY MAY NOT FURTHER ANY PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF SCOTLAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND).

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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