MONA HATOUM FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1190151 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Foundation provides yearly bursaries to three Central Saint Martins postgraduate students.Safe keeps and conserves the artworks belonging to the Foundation. Makes loans of the artworks to public institutions in the UK and abroad.Maintains the artist's physical archive and aims to digitise it.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Latest income

£113k

Latest spending

£128k

Registered

2020

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £3,212,117 at the end of the financial year, a decrease from the previous year's £3,500,557. The trustees confirm that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. The charity's reserves policy is to hold sufficient funds to allow future grants and donations to be made at the trustees' discretion.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: none

“Income for the year related to royalties and loan fees of £2,757 (2024: £3,032), bank interest of £27,767 (2024: £6,124) and proceeds from art sales of £82,486 (2024: £46,423).”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: sufficient to allow future grants and donations to be made at the discretion of the trustees (held: £3.2m)

“It is the policy of the charity to hold reserves which are sufficient to allow future grants and donations to be made at the discretion of the trustees.” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2021)

Total income

£3.5m

Total spending

£68k

Reserves (reported)

£1.6m

Employees

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (62% 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

Dr Andrea Hanne Lisa Schlieker
GEORGE RICHARD RILEY · trustee of 1 other charity
Gerald Glen Collins
Mona Hatoum
TIMOTHY ADAM MAXWELL

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

Operates in: Canada · France · Lebanon · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Switzerland · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£113k	£128k
31/03/2024	£135k	£59k
31/03/2023	£3k	£132k
31/03/2022	£89k	£92k
31/03/2021	£3.5m	£68k

Common questions

Is MONA HATOUM FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £3,212,117 at the end of the financial year, a decrease from the previous year's £3,500,557. The trustees confirm that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. The charity's reserves policy is to hold sufficient funds to allow future grants and donations to be made at the trustees' discretion. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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
THE FUNDING NETWORK	1	£85k
THE LOVINGTON FOUNDATION	1	£39k
The Portal Trust	1	£20k
NETWORK FOR SOCIAL CHANGE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£19k
THE CHILDHOOD TRUST	1	£13k
THE DAVID FAMILY FOUNDATION	1	£0

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STUART HALL FOUNDATION.

STUART HALL FOUNDATION income £212k
THE HENRY MOORE FOUNDATION income £8.0m
MARIA BJORNSON MEMORIAL FUND income £283k
THE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION, ARTS AND CULTURE income £133k
THE FOUNDATION FOUNDATION income £173k
JMWM HUSSAIN FOUNDATION income £855k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
MONA HATOUM FOUNDATION	£113k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
STUART HALL FOUNDATION FY2025	£212k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE HENRY MOORE FOUNDATION FY2025	£8.0m	£150,001 - £160,000	—	below	—	no doubt
MARIA BJORNSON MEMORIAL FUND FY2024	£283k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION, ARTS AND CULTURE FY2025	£133k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FY2025	£173k	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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