James Dyson

The four-line truth

Lines are separate lifecycle measures and are never summed: committed = donor-published lifetime award totals; awaiting = latest-FY statutory 'approved for future payment' balance; deployed = disclosed paid amounts (withheld-amount gifts counted separately). Absence of events is absence of loaded evidence, not zero giving.

Top recipients

1. Gresham's School – Holt Hall Project1 grant · FY2023 ·statutory$7.4M
2. Gresham's School - Holt Hall Project1 grant · FY2024 ·statutory$3.3M
3. University of Edinburgh, Dyson Race against Dementia acceleration project2 grants · FY2021–FY2022 ·statutory$1.4M
4. Dyson nominated charity donation – Alzheimer's Research UK3 grants · FY2021–FY2023 ·statutory$124K
5. Dyson nominated charity donation - Alzheimer's Research UK1 grant · FY2024 ·statutory$65K

Largest recipients across loaded paid line-item records; recipient names as filed (entity resolution pending). Aggregate-basis sources carry no recipient detail.

Transparency

• Publishes an open grants databaseno donor-published database loaded0/40
• Capital traceable to a named recipient58% of $21,119,62517/30
• Statutory filings carry recipient detail58% of $21,119,625 filed9/15
• Most recent evidenceFY202415/15

England & Wales charities may withhold recipient names on materiality or serious prejudice grounds, and a charitable trust may withhold recipients and amounts entirely while the settlor lives (Charities Act 2011 s.132(4)).

Voluntary points reward disclosure the donor chose — publishing an open grants database, and naming recipients. Compelled points reflect how completely and how currently their statutory filings land. The split exists because disclosure regimes differ by jurisdiction: a high compelled score is law-abiding, not generous, and a low one may reflect a rule the donor did not write.

What the filed accounts actually disclosed

• 2024-12-312 named recipients · 11 aggregate rowsThe James Dyson Foundation · note "Grant funding activities" · GBPrecipients namedread from scan · review flagged
• 2023-12-312 named recipients · 10 aggregate rowsThe James Dyson Foundation · note "5. Grant funding activities" · GBPrecipients namedread from scan · review flagged
• 2022-12-312 named recipients · 10 aggregate rowsThe James Dyson Foundation · note "Grant funding activities" · GBPrecipients namedread from scan · review flagged
• 2021-12-312 named recipients · 12 aggregate rowsThe James Dyson Foundation · note "5. Grant funding activities" · GBPrecipients namedread from scan · review flagged
• 2020-12-311 named recipient · 12 aggregate rowsThe James Dyson Foundation · note "5. Grant funding activities" · GBPrecipients namedtext layer · review flagged

Extracted from the charity's own filed accounts and independently re-read; every note reconciles (named + aggregate = the printed total). A note with no named recipients is a disclosure outcome, not an absence of giving: SORP Module 16 lets a charity withhold names on immateriality or serious prejudice, and Charities Act 2011 s.132(4) lets an England & Wales charitable trustwithhold recipients and amounts entirely while the settlor is alive.

Vehicles · 2 founder-linked via Wikidata

• Dysonno EIN claim
• Dyson Farmingno EIN claim

Provenance