Five K Foundation
Gateshead Kaufman family property trust whose largest grant goes to Mosdos Hatorah Pnei Menachem
| Five K Foundation
| |
|---|---|
| Type | Trust |
| Founded | 2017-03-13 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1172014 |
| Headquarters | Gateshead NE8 |
| Area served | Throughout England, Israel |
| Key people | Maurice Moses Kaufman (chair) |
Five K Foundation was registered on 13 March 2017 under a trust deed of 6 March 2017; register areas are England and Israel.[1][2] Its trustees are Maurice Moses Kaufman (chair on the register), Simon Kaufman and Noemi Kaufman, with a principal office in Gateshead NE8 – the same address as the Mendel Kaufman Memorial Trust (PDF p.3).[1][2] It applies income "mainly from its investment properties in the provision and distribution of grants and donations to Orthodox Jewish Charities" (PDF p.4). In the year to 30 June 2025 income was £179,957 (property income £142,957), grants £171,600 and funds £2,428,638, including investment properties of £2,286,500 at the trustees' estimate (PDF p.4, 7).[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "A. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY PROVIDING GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.B. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY PROVIDING GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS.C. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGION BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS.D. ANY OTHER PURPOSE CURRENTLY RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE BY ANALOGY TO, OR WITHIN THE SPIRIT OF, PURPOSES OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED OR ANY OTHER PURPOSE RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES."[1]
The register describes its activities as: "To provide and distribute grants and donations to Orthodox Jewish Charities."[1]
Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities.[1]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England, Israel.[1]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simon Kaufman | 2016-09-26 | Areivim (1125655); C and F Charitable Trust (274529); C S Kaufman Charitable Trust (253194); K M Charitable Trust (286759); Largsmount Ltd (280509); Mendel Kaufman Memorial Trust (1176231); Myr Charitable Trust (1104406); Nesivos Hatorah Ltd (1172367); S C K Charitable Trust (1049159); The Mk Charitable Trust (260439) | |
| Maurice Moses Kaufman | 2016-09-26 | Yes | M O Charitable Trust (327060); The M D and S Charitable Trust (273992); The Rozac Charitable Trust (1082851) |
| Noemi Kaufman | 2016-09-26 | Mendel Kaufman Memorial Trust (1176231) |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
Maurice Moses Kaufman is also a register trustee of M O Charitable Trust, The M D and S Charitable Trust and The Rozac Charitable Trust; Simon Kaufman of the Mendel Kaufman Memorial Trust, C S Kaufman Charitable Trust and eight other charities; Noemi Kaufman of the Mendel Kaufman Memorial Trust.[1]
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-30 | £243,125 | £74,899 |
| 2022-06-30 | £128,212 | £160,745 |
| 2023-06-30 | £140,914 | £253,881 |
| 2024-06-30 | £150,154 | £186,098 |
| 2025-06-30 | £179,957 | £216,987 |
Source: register annual-return history.[1]
Archived accounts
Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:
- Accounts for the year ended 30/06/2018[5]
Funding in Israel
- FY2025 grants: Mosdos Hatorah Pnei Menachem £80,000, Friends of Chosen Yeshias £41,000 and sundry grants under £15,000 £50,600. No place in Israel is named (PDF p.11).[2]
Israeli partners
No Israeli organisation is named. The recipients appear to be the UK charities profiled as Mosdos Hatorah Pnei Menachem Ltd and Friends of Chosen Yeshias; identity not confirmed.[2]
Activity beyond the Green Line and support for the IDF
Findings are graded by confidence. "Partner" findings concern the Israeli recipient organisation, not proven use of UK funds.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| No place in Israel is named.[2] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[2]
Controversies and regulatory action
- No Charity Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this charity was found, and its register entry shows no regulatory alert;[6] it is not among the charities named in the Commission's cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements (May, September and December 2025) or in the September 2026 statement of results.[7][8][9][10] The charities in the Commission's settlements class inquiry (opened August 2026) have not been named, so it is not known whether this charity is among them.[11]
Other registers and records
Scotland and Northern Ireland
No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 14 October 2026, searched by name).[12] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[13]
The Gazette
Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice.[14]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[15]
Sanctions screening
The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees and officers named in the accounts read for this profile and (for charitable companies) its Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match was found. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (UK sanctions ID RUS1127) does not appear among this charity's trustees or officers.[16]
Land and property
The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[17] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[18]
- Investment properties £2,286,500 at 30 June 2025 at the trustees' estimate; property income £142,957; addresses not stated – Accounts (PDF p.7) (source: [2])
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Five K Foundation" returned 0 contributions in total.[19]
Web archive
The UK Government Web Archive holds 2 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Charity reporting is up to date" and "Other regulators: No information available".[3]
See also
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Charity Commission for England and Wales, Register of Charities public extract (tables charity, charity_trustee, charity_annual_return_history, charity_area_of_operation, charity_classification, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, Five K Foundation (1172014): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1172014, full print (capture of 20210111) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Register entry 1172014, full print (capture of 20210704) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Five K Foundation accounts, year ended 2018-06-30 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
- ↑ Charity Commission, Register of Charities, charity overview page (register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/ followed by the organisation number) for each of the 25 batch-13 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The 22 registered charities showed "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)"; Hatzolas Chasanim Ltd, Trumfold Limited and The Naaman Trust showed "Removed charity".
- ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues GOV.UK, 9 September 2026, with Statement of the results of a class inquiry (same date).
- ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-13 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-13 charity names returned zero results, except "J O Charitable", which returned only unrelated Northern Irish charities).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Five K Foundation' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1172014 360Giving, queried 15 October 2026.
- ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-13 screening covered 285 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, Companies House officers of the six charitable companies (including the removed Hatzolas Chasanim Ltd and Trumfold Limited), related companies named in the accounts (Cromwell Corporate Protector Limited, Salmino Limited, Bullion Properties Limited, Crewpride Limited, Wilkincroft Ltd and others), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts and fetched partner pages read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; the only token matches were generic words in organisation names ("Trust", "Limited", "Ltd", "Foundation") and surname-only coincidences (Weiss, Friedman, Kish, Silver, James, Seal, Potash); lists downloaded October 2026.
- ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access in October 2026; no titles were looked up or purchased. Candidate title numbers below come from the free CCOD / OCOD datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.
- ↑ HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) and Overseas companies that own property in England and Wales (OCOD) full extracts, October 2026 release, matched on charitable company numbers, registered names and the names and numbers of subsidiaries named in the accounts; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Five K Foundation" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).