The J and R Margulies Charitable Trust

Analysis

The J and R Margulies Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in December 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, religious activities and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The J and R Margulies Charitable Trust reported income of £26k and spending of £27k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £142k to £26k (-82%), an average of -35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 124%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The J and R Margulies Charitable Trust sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Savage Club Benevolent Fund (£26k), Banc Bwyd Pwllheli Foodbank (£26k) and Bolton Brownlow Fold Church of the Nazarene (£26k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.