The Yen Ming Deh Charitable Foundation

Analysis

The Yen Ming Deh Charitable Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in September 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Yen Ming Deh Charitable Foundation reported income of £53k and spending of £13k, leaving 75% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £1,545 to £53k (+3336%), an average of +142% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 216%. Over the whole period it spent 1143% 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 Yen Ming Deh Charitable Foundation sits at the 53rd percentile: it is larger than about 53% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Help the Cambodian Children (£53k), Lejeune Clinic for Children with Down Syndrome (£53k) and Rotary Club of Farnborough Benevolent Fund (£53k).