THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM ENDOWMENT TRUST

Registered charity 1154932 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grant making

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Latest income

£494k

Latest spending

£386k

Registered

2013

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total net assets of £12,193,970, comprising unrestricted, designated, and restricted funds. The trustees report that free cash stood at £482,451, which they aim to maintain to cover annual donations and governance costs. The independent auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: sufficient free cash to make no less than one annual donation to the Ashmolean Museum and to pay, out of restricted income, for the governance costs (held: £482k)

“The trustees aim to maintain sufficient free cash to make no less than one annual donation to the Ashmolean Museum and to pay, out of restricted income, for the governance costs.” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Donations made to Ashmolean Museum, where a trustee is Director.

“As per note 2, donations were made to the Ashmolean Museum totalling £371,324 (2024: £370,000). Dr Alexander Sturgis CBE (a Trustee) is the Director of the Ashmolean Museum.” — page 17

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2021)

Total income

£1.5m

Total spending

£311k

Reserves (reported)

£295k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~11.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (78% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Lord James Roger Crompton Lupton CBEchair
Dr Alexander John Sturgis · trustee of 3 other charities
LORD ANDREW SIMON FELDMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
Philip Bruce Kay
Professor Irene Mary Carmel Tracey CBE

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
05/04/2025	£494k	£386k
05/04/2024	£459k	£383k
05/04/2023	£490k	£401k
05/04/2022	£409k	£348k
05/04/2021	£1.5m	£311k

Common questions

Is THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM ENDOWMENT TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity holds total net assets of £12,193,970, comprising unrestricted, designated, and restricted funds. The trustees report that free cash stood at £482,451, which they aim to maintain to cover annual donations and governance costs. The independent auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Saffery LLP.

Who funds THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM ENDOWMENT TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM ENDOWMENT TRUST as a grant recipient include THE EIGHTY EIGHT FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE EIGHTY EIGHT FOUNDATION	FY2025	£8k

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
SAMJO LIMITED	1	£1.1m
MOLE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£95k
THE CLORE DUFFIELD FOUNDATION	1	£30k
BRUSHMILL LIMITED	1	£5k
ANSON CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£4k

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM ENDOWMENT TRUST	£494k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE ELIAS ASHMOLE TRUST FY2025	£181k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE J J CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£842k	£60,001 - £70,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ASHLA CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£103k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE AJS CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£157k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE MARK LEONARD TRUST FY2025	£1.3m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.