Baptist Savings Trust Board — Religion Charity in Auckland
Baptist Savings Trust Board is a Charitable Trust charity in the Religion sector, based in Auckland, Auckland. This organisation also provides funding to other charities. CharityData rates this charity B- (71.4/100). Annual revenue: $0.2M NZD. 1 red flag detected. Financial data as at June 2025.
Mission: The Trust will operate for the purposes of promoting and representing the Baptist denomination of Christians in New Zealand. It will hold property on behalf of the denomination and make distributions in accordance with its charitable objectives.
- Registration Number
- CC54697
- Charity Type
- Charitable Trust
- Registration Date
- 2017-07-26
- Status
- Active
- CharityData Rating
- B- (71.4/100)
- Sector
- Religion
- Location
- Auckland, Auckland
- finance@baptist.org.nz
- Funder Status
- Grant-making charity (trust)
- Data as at
- June 2025
Beneficiaries: Religious groups
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $0.2M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $0.9M NZD
- Total Assets
- $12.3M NZD
- Net Assets
- $12.3M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.1 months of operating expenses
- Volunteers
- 0
- Financial Year End
- 2025-06-30
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $0.2M | $0.9M | $12.3M |
| 2024 | $0.7M | $0.6M | $11.9M |
| 2023 | $2.0M | $0.3M | $17.1M |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $0.3M | $15.4M |
| 2021 | $1.9M | $0.1M | $14.4M |
| 2020 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $12.5M |
| 2019 | $0.1M | $0.0M | $12.5M |
| 2018 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $12.4M |
CharityData Rating
- Overall Grade
- B-
- Overall Score
- 71.4/100
- Financial Score
- 88.5
- Governance Score
- 65
- Transparency Score
- 65
- Program Spending Ratio
- 1.0%
Red Flags
- 2 trustees of this charity also sit on multiple other charity boards — concentrated trustee bandwidth may warrant board-skill-mix review.
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (6)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Christopher Chamberlain | Trustee | 2025-11-07 |
| Jennifer Collings | Trustee | 2024-10-16 |
| Roderick Robson | Trustee | 2023-12-07 |
| Wayne Schache | Trustee | 2021-11-30 |
| John McDougall | Trustee | 2021-08-31 |
| Graham Shaw | Trustee | 2017-07-26 |
Former Officers (10)
- Kerry Brewerton — Trustee (departed 2023-11-03)
- Glenn Teal — Trustee (departed 2024-11-30)
- John Alpe — Trustee (departed 2022-02-17)
- Charles Hewlett — Trustee (departed 2025-11-07)
- Rangiaruaru Hema — Trustee (departed 2021-07-02)
- Robert Stacey — Trustee (departed 2019-11-07)
- John Douglas — Trustee (departed 2017-11-09)
- Josephine Te Kahu — Trustee (departed 2018-12-06)
- Craig Vernall — Trustee (departed 2018-12-06)
- Elizabeth Johnstone — Trustee (departed 2021-03-02)
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Baptist Savings Trust Board
Financial data as at June 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.
Reasons to look carefully (1)
These structural observations are drawn from public data and are worth considering before a donation. They are not allegations of wrongdoing, and they don’t affect the charity’s letter grade.
- No chair recorded on the registerNo chair or presiding role is recorded in the register for this board of 6. The Charities Register does not require one to be identified, so this is a gap in the public record rather than a finding about the board.
Each signal is a data-driven observation, not a judgement. They fire automatically from the figures filed with Charities Services. A charity can address any of these by filing fuller disclosure or updating its officer register. Methodology: /about/methodology/concern-signals.
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$12.3M
Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
Endowment Foundation
Special Entity TypeThis is an endowment foundation that holds investments and provides grants. High reserves are expected and appropriate - this is not an operating charity.
Rating Note: Endowment foundations are rated using specialized criteria that recognize high reserves as appropriate. Metrics like grant distribution rate and investment returns are prioritized over program spending ratios.
Funder Profile
GrantmakerThis organisation makes grants or donations to other charities and organisations.
About
The Trust will operate for the purposes of promoting and representing the Baptist denomination of Christians in New Zealand. It will hold property on behalf of the denomination and make distributions in accordance with its charitable objectives.
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Peer Comparison
Ranked against 192 peers · Religion · $100K – $1M
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