THE NEVILLE ABRAHAM FOUNDATION

Q: Is THE NEVILLE ABRAHAM FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total funds carried forward decreased from £2,578,625 to £2,348,021 due to increased charitable distributions of £599,257. The trustees consider the charity's financial position to be strong, noting that cash reserves remain sufficient to meet commitments. The charity acknowledges its income is currently dependent on two individual donors, Mr N Abraham and Ms N Leach. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Registered charity 328636 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ABRAHAM FOUNDATION

THE NEVILLE ABRAHAM FOUNDATION supports organisations that enable people to have better chances to succeed regardless of domestic and/or financial circumstances. The Foundation does not accept unsolicited applications for support.

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

Latest income

£406k

Latest spending

£628k

Registered

1990

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds carried forward decreased from £2,578,625 to £2,348,021 due to increased charitable distributions of £599,257. The trustees consider the charity's financial position to be strong, noting that cash reserves remain sufficient to meet commitments. The charity acknowledges its income is currently dependent on two individual donors, Mr N Abraham and Ms N Leach.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: sufficient capital is retained to meet the charitable commitments (held: £2.3m)

“In future years where dona<ons may be ﬁnanced from both income and capital the trustees will ensure suﬃcient capital is retained to meet the charitable commitments made by the Founda<on.” — page 3

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 05/04/2024)

Total income

£568k

Total spending

£233k

Cost of raising funds

£17k

Reserves (reported)

£2.6m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~133.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (94% 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: 2.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Fiona McWilliams · trustee of 1 other charity
Gary Paul Wyatt
Madeleine McLaren · trustee of 1 other charity
NEVILLE VICTOR ABRAHAM CBE
Yasmeen Majid

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
05/04/2025	£406k	£628k
05/04/2024	£568k	£233k
05/04/2023	£32k	£26k
05/04/2022	£1.4m	£22k
05/04/2021	£8k	£18k

Common questions

Is THE NEVILLE ABRAHAM FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total funds carried forward decreased from £2,578,625 to £2,348,021 due to increased charitable distributions of £599,257. The trustees consider the charity's financial position to be strong, noting that cash reserves remain sufficient to meet commitments. The charity acknowledges its income is currently dependent on two individual donors, Mr N Abraham and Ms N Leach. 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
NEW ISRAEL FUND	1	—
The Abraham Initiatives	1	£285k
THE RAYNE TRUST	1	£197k
BEAULAND LIMITED	1	£128k
CHLOE'S AND SOPHIE'S SPECIAL EARS FUND	1	£107k
THE STEVE MORGAN FOUNDATION	1	£95k
THE SAM AND BELLA SEBBA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£90k
THE PEARS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£65k

Charities like this

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

JACOB ABRAHAM FOUNDATION income £301k
The Abraham Initiatives income £321k
THE ABSTRACT FOUNDATION income £164k
Transform NE income £241k
THE NEUMARK FOUNDATION income £422k
NAEEM FOUNDATION income £243k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE NEVILLE ABRAHAM FOUNDATION	£406k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
JACOB ABRAHAM FOUNDATION FY2025	£301k	—	above	—	no doubt
The Abraham Initiatives FY2025	£321k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ABSTRACT FOUNDATION FY2024	£164k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
Transform NE FY2025	£241k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE NEUMARK FOUNDATION FY2025	£422k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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