Charities Regulator Annual Report 2024

Posted on 11 August 2025 by Brian Mackey

The Charities Regulator recently released its 2024 annual report and we have detailed some of the main highlights from the report.

11,445 charities on the Register of Charities
- - Estimated to be worth €32 billion to the economy and involve over 280k employees
  - 4,752 are registered companies
  - 331 have an income over €5 million
127 newly registered charities
6,023 charities are set up for the Advancement of Education being its charitable purpose which is the largest charitable purpose of all charities
60% of charities filed their annual report on time (2% increase on 2023) and 76% filed by the year end (2% decrease on 2023)
- - The regulator has developed a ‘traffic-light’ system to show more clearly where a charity was complying with its reporting obligations.
  - The system, which applies to annual reports due for filing from April 2025 onwards, indicates if a charity is on time in making its returns, is late, or has not filed at all.
4,466 charities declared they have fully implemented the Charities Governance Code by the end of 2024
199 charities were deregistered
- - 38 charities removed for failing to file annual reports
  - 8 charities prosecuted for failing to file their annual report
493 concerns raised and 3 investigations closed
- - Governance Issues, Legitimacy of Charity and Financial Control and Transparency are the top 3 concerns raised
The Regulator introduced a charity classification standard in 2022 and 1,310 charities have used the standard to classify themselves and the Regulator is encouraging all charities to complete their classification.
The Regulator is reviewing of the guidance material on implementing the Governance Code