The Lauffer Family Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Lauffer Family Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in January 1967, 59 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 Lauffer Family Charitable Trust reported income of £130k and spending of £518k, spending 400% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £118k to £130k (+9.4%), an average of +2.3% a year. Over the whole period it spent 412% 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 Lauffer Family Charitable Trust sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 75th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Barings Targeted Return Fund (£129k), The Brian Mitchell Charitable Settlement (£130k) and United Grand Lodge of England, Grand Secretary's Discretionary Fund (£129k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.