Funding

Full Fact is a registered charity. We’re funded by people like you, by charitable trusts, and by other funders. All the details are on this page.

Our running costs consist mostly of paying staff and renting office space in London. We have the usual overheads of any organisation, from computer equipment and internet connections to doing our accounts. We are based in London so that we can meet with central government and major media outlets without the expense of constant travel. We'd like to thank everybody who donates and makes our work possible.

Neutrality

We have rigorous safeguards in place at every level of our organisation to ensure our neutrality. These have been carefully constructed based on advice from our board and examples ranging from Amnesty International to the BBC. They include the cross-party board, fundraising safeguards (see our donation refusal policy), a conflict of interests policy, restrictions on staff political activity, feedback processes, operating guidelines, external reviews, and more. Most importantly, they include carefully recruiting staff who are sensitive to these issues.

Ultimately, it is for our audience to judge for themselves whether we succeed—we would encourage readers to judge our individual fact checks and our body of work as a whole. We provide links to all sources so that you can check what we’ve said for yourself.

Individual supporters

We are very grateful for the support of our readers, who donate thousands of pounds to Full Fact every month. You can help Full Fact grow, and check more facts, by donating.

Funders

We would like to thank all of our funders. In 2025 Full Fact's total income was 3,054,478ドル. All donations greater than 25,000ドル received are listed here along with the amount they gave and what it was given for.

You can read our Annual Review of 2025, sharing the highlights, achievements and challenges of the year for our supporters, here.

Our funders have no input into our editorial content or decision making.

You can read our Annual Accounts and Reports on the Charity Commission website.

Full Fact have Equivalency Determination certification which means we have been determined by NGOsource to be equivalent to a U.S. public charity.

Funding from Facebook

Since January 2019, Full Fact has checked images, videos and articles on Facebook as part of the social network’s third-party fact checking initiative. This work is funded by Facebook. The amount of money that Full Fact is entitled to depends on the amount of fact checking done under the programme.

We publish independent reports on our experience of Facebook’s programme and our recommendations for how Facebook and the UK government can improve the quality of information on the platform. Our first report was published in July 2019.

Practical support

Our web hosting is very kindly provided by Hosting UK. They make it possible for us to run an ever larger and more complex site with no fuss and completely free.

In 2019, we were joint winners of Google’s AI for Social Good Challenge for our work developing world-leading automated fact checking tools. Our prize was three years of funding and support from the Google.org Fellowship, which saw seven Google developers volunteer with our team for six months. The Fellows helped us build AI tools to help fact checkers detect claims made by key politicians, then group them by topic and match them with similar claims from across media outlets, social media, and parliamentary records.

We also benefit from a general Google Grants scheme for charities which provides 10,000ドル worth of Google advertising per month. They do not have any say in how we spend them.

Thanks again to all our supporters. If you'd like to join them, check out our donate page.