The Steinberg Family Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Steinberg Family Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Altrincham. It was registered in March 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Steinberg Family Charitable Trust reported income of £2.5m and spending of £3.2m, spending 126% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £2.0m to £2.5m (+24%), an average of +5.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 42%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Steinberg Family Charitable Trust sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Dorothy, Emma & Spiro Latsis Benevolent Trust (£2.5m), Missionaries of Charity of Mother Teresa of Calcutta Trust (£2.5m) and Urban Green Newcastle (£2.5m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 100%. Charitable activities took 36% of spending and raising funds 63%. Grants to other organisations totalled £938k. Reserves of £28.3m would cover about 106 months of spending at that rate.