MASH Trust — Health Charity in Palmerston North
MASH Trust is a Trust charity in the Health sector, based in Palmerston North, Palmerston North. CharityData rates this charity D+ (50/100). Annual revenue: $38.8M NZD. 1 red flag detected. Financial data as at June 2025.
Mission: The Trust provides residential and community based health and disability support services for people with mental health, intellectual and/or physical disabilities, alcohol and addictions (including co-existing problems), child/youth mental health crisis respite care and a community-based support Venue.
- Registration Number
- CC22237
- Charity Type
- Trust
- Registration Date
- 2008-03-27
- Status
- Active
- CharityData Rating
- D+ (50/100)
- Sector
- Health
- Location
- Palmerston North, Palmerston North
- enquire@mashtrust.org.nz
- Data as at
- June 2025
Beneficiaries: Children / young people, Other charities, People with disabilities
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $38.8M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $39.5M NZD
- Total Assets
- $20.7M NZD
- Net Assets
- $13.4M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 1.5 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 478
- Volunteers
- 0
- Financial Year End
- 2025-06-30
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $38.8M | $39.5M | $13.4M |
| 2024 | $37.9M | $37.2M | $13.5M |
| 2023 | $37.7M | $35.9M | $12.8M |
| 2022 | $37.1M | $36.4M | $11.1M |
| 2021 | $35.0M | $33.9M | $7.4M |
| 2020 | $34.1M | $32.1M | $6.2M |
| 2019 | $29.5M | $29.7M | $4.3M |
| 2018 | $28.5M | $28.3M | $4.6M |
| 2017 | $26.6M | $26.4M | $4.4M |
| 2016 | $25.9M | $26.2M | $3.4M |
CharityData Rating
- Overall Grade
- D+
- Overall Score
- 50/100
- Financial Score
- 53.6
- Governance Score
- 75
- Transparency Score
- 65
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 (0)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|
Former Officers (17)
- Peter Te Rangi — Trustee
- Tyson Schmidt — Trustee
- Trieste Te Awe Awe — Trustee
- John Fowke — Chair
- David Ayling — Trustee
- Sheena Mason — Trustee
- John Doolan — N/a (departed 2016-09-26)
- Robert Carlyon — N/a (departed 2011-04-01)
- William Tither — N/a (departed 2015-03-10)
- Julie Nitschke — Trustee
- Stephen Russell — N/a (departed 2007-12-17)
- Jan Lockett-Kay — N/a (departed 2008-09-22)
- Peter Rea — Trustee
- Margaret Walsh — N/a (departed 2015-09-28)
- Alannah Joan Chettleburgh — N/a (departed 2012-09-24)
- Catherine Heather Allan — Chair (departed 2021-10-27)
- David Barrett — Trustee
Executive Compensation
| Name | Role | Compensation | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Franklyn | Trustee | - | 2024 |
| Richard Harris | Chair | - | 2024 |
| Jane Diplock | Trustee | - | 2024 |
| Ngaire Button | Chief Executive Officer | - | 2024 |
| Mel Harris | Trustee | - | 2024 |
| Hugh Williams | Trustee | - | 2024 |
| Catherine Love | Trustee | - | 2024 |
| Michelle Boag | Trustee | - | 2024 |
| Cindy Major | Trustee | - | 2024 |
| Grant McCallum | Trustee | - | 2024 |
| David Mabey | Chair | - | 2024 |
| Jacky Fooks | Trustee | - | 2024 |
Service Providers
- Michael Smit
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MASH Trust
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.
- Government-funding concentration91% of latest-year revenue came from government grants — single-stream dependency
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.
$38.8M
$39.5M
$20.7M
478
Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
This rating may reflect incomplete data
This charity's grade of D+ is based on limited data from the NZ Charities Register, which does not provide detailed expense breakdowns. Without verified program vs admin spending, efficiency scoring is unavailable and the financial score relies on health metrics only. This charity's actual performance may differ from what the available data suggests.
About
The Trust provides residential and community based health and disability support services for people with mental health, intellectual and/or physical disabilities, alcohol and addictions (including co-existing problems), child/youth mental health crisis respite care and a community-based support Venue.
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Key Statistics
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Revenue Diversification
HHI (Herfindahl–Hirschman Index) measures concentration across 6 income categories. Lower HHI = more diversified. Score above 60 indicates healthy diversification.
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