The Weinstock Fund

Analysis

The Weinstock Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wiltshire. It was registered in December 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Weinstock Fund reported income of £636k and spending of £475k, leaving 25% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £2.5m to £636k (-74%), an average of -29% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 64%. Over the whole period it spent 60% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Weinstock Fund sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 93% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Graham Dacre Charitable Foundation (£626k), The Charles Russell Speechlys Foundation (£639k) and Wigan & Leigh Carers Centre (£626k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from investments 100%. Charitable activities took 100% of spending and raising funds 0.5%. Grants to other organisations totalled £431k. Reserves of £21.1m would cover about 534 months of spending at that rate.