The Ruth and Stuart Lipton Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Ruth and Stuart Lipton Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in March 1974, 52 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 Ruth and Stuart Lipton Charitable Trust reported income of £52k and spending of £77k, spending 147% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £1,773 to £52k (+2853%), an average of +133% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 2368%. Over the whole period it spent 147% 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 Ruth and Stuart Lipton Charitable Trust sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 61st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Lytham Institute (£52k), Southwold Millennium Foundation (£52k) and The McGilvray Charitable Foundation (£52k).