The Mendelssohn Scholarship Foundation (Including the Boise Scholarship Foundation)

Analysis

The Mendelssohn Scholarship Foundation (Including the Boise Scholarship Foundation) is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in April 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending October 2025, The Mendelssohn Scholarship Foundation (Including the Boise Scholarship Foundation) reported income of £18k and spending of £22k, spending 122% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2021 to October 2025, income fell from £150k to £18k (-88%), an average of -41% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2022, when income dropped by 88%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, The Mendelssohn Scholarship Foundation (Including the Boise Scholarship Foundation) sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sing Out Sutton (£18k), 5th Neath Scout Group (£18k) and Southend -On-Sea Round Table Charitable Trust (£18k).

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.