Mendel Kaufman Memorial Trust

Analysis

Mendel Kaufman Memorial Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Tyne And Wear. It was registered in December 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and religious activities, 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 April 2025, Mendel Kaufman Memorial Trust reported income of £183k and spending of £287k, spending 156% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £282k to £183k (-35%), an average of -10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Mendel Kaufman Memorial Trust sits at the 75th percentile: it is larger than about 75% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Middlesbrough Foodbank (£183k), The Coco's Foundation (£183k) and African Centre for Development and Research (£183k).