Becht Foundation

Registered charity 1116657 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE BECHT FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST · filing overdue (register status)

The trustees shall hold the fund and its income for such charities/charitable purposes, throughout the world, as the trustees shall determine, in particular the preservation and restoration of biodiversity and humanitarian aid for the young and disadvantaged. Educational programmes supporting the key areas of focus are also considered.

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND ITS INCOME UPON TRUST TO APPLY THEM FOR THE OBJECTS IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT. THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE THAT THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND IN TRUST FOR SUCH CHARITIES, OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES, IN ANY PAT OF THE WORLD, AND IN SUCH PROPORTION, AND IN SUCH MANNER, AND SUBJECT TO SUCH TERMS AND CONDITIONS, AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR UNCONTROLLED DISCRETION DETERMINE, AND IN PARTICULAR TO SPONSOR AND SUPPORT ACTIVITIES WHICH RESORT OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OR ELIMINATE NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, PROVIDE FOR GREATER EDUCATION ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THE RESTORATION OF OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OR THE ELIMINATION OF NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON OUR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, AND PROVIDE HUMANITARIAN AID

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at $475,042,512, which the Trustees regard as free reserves adequate to cover future grant-making plans. The charity reported a net incoming resource of $13,208,877, driven by significant investment returns, and confirms it is a going concern with no material uncertainties.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Martlet Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from $210,001 - $220,000 (FY2023) to $250,001 - $260,000 (FY2024).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2023) → 2 (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Supporter Spotlight: The Becht Foundation is creating a more sustainable future oceana.org · 17/10/2022

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANN MARIE BECHT
• David Poulter
• Kevin Becht
• LAMBERTUS JONANNES HERMANUS BECHT
• Natalie Becht
• R&H Trust Co (UK) Limited
• Sebastian Becht

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Germany · Netherlands · United States

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BEIT TRUST.

• THE BEIT TRUST income £3.2m
• THE ANNETT TRUST income £62k
• THE BEHRENS FOUNDATION income £120k
• LAWSON BECKMAN CHARITABLE TRUST income £239k
• THE CH FOUNDATION (UK) income £119.3m
• THE BEECHER CHARITABLE TRUST income £92k

Side by side with its peers

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