Karin Brass Memorial Fund

Analysis

Karin Brass Memorial Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in June 2021, 5 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Karin Brass Memorial Fund reported income of £244k and spending of £404k, spending 166% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from April 2022 to April 2025, income grew from £22k to £244k (+1018%), an average of +124% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 796%. Over the whole period it spent 123% 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, Karin Brass Memorial Fund sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Hawthorne Charitable Trust (£242k), Colonel W H Whitbread Charitable Trust (£244k) and Why Me? UK (£242k).