The Maurice Marks Charitable Trust

Analysis

The Maurice Marks Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in August 1983, 43 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 Maurice Marks Charitable Trust reported income of £102k and spending of £143k, spending 140% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £112k to £102k (-8.8%), an average of -2.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income dropped by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 127% 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 Maurice Marks Charitable Trust sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Seaview Charitable Trust (£102k), Friends of Hafod Morfa Copperworks (£103k) and Highfields Trust CIO (£102k).