The Ashmolean Museum Endowment Trust

Analysis

The Ashmolean Museum Endowment Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in December 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Ashmolean Museum Endowment Trust reported income of £494k and spending of £386k, leaving 22% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £1.5m to £494k (-67%), an average of -24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 73%. Over the whole period it spent 54% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, The Ashmolean Museum Endowment Trust sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Vanbrugh Community Association (£493k), Canolfan Gerdd William Mathias Cyf (£494k) and Bishopsland Educational Trust (£493k).