Einat Podjarny
Israeli trustee of the Disrupt Foundation
| Einat Podjarny
| |
|---|---|
| Born | March 1978 |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Residence | Israel |
| Occupation | Trustee of the Disrupt Foundation |
Einat Podjarny (born March 1978) is an Israeli trustee of the Disrupt Foundation, a London-based grant-making family foundation. She was appointed on 28 July 2023.[1] Companies House records her as a director of the foundation's charitable company from 28 July 2023, of Israeli nationality and resident in Israel.[2]
Name
The Charity Commission register spells her name "Einat Podjarny".[1] Companies House lists her as "PODJRANY, Einat", and the director appointment filed on 4 August 2023 uses the same spelling; it is her only Companies House appointment.[2][3] The foundation's accounts for 2022 and 2023 use "Einat Podjarny"; those for 2024 and 2025 use "Einat Podjrany".[4] This page uses the Charity Commission spelling, Podjarny.
Disrupt Foundation
The Disrupt Foundation's accounts list her as a "Non-Member Trustee". They state that the non-member trustees, Jonathan Brinsden and Einat Podjarny, were appointed to serve a minimum of three years, and that trustees are appointed by the Preference Member, Guy Podjarny, during his lifetime.[4] She is the only one of the foundation's officers recorded by Companies House as resident outside the United Kingdom.[2]
Disrupt Foundation: funding during her tenure
The Disrupt Foundation (registered charity 1198872, company 13738626) is a grant-making family foundation that funds social-justice, migrant-rights and racial-justice organisations in the UK and, since the first quarter of 2023, grassroots and civil-society organisations in Israel, including organisations of Palestinian citizens of Israel.[4] The table shows the foundation's income and spending in the financial years that fall within Podjarny's time as a trustee (from 28 July 2023).[4]
| Year to 31 December | Income (£) | Expenditure (£) |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4,024,861 | 3,021,647 |
| 2024 | 2,864,484 | 3,770,390 |
| 2025 | 3,955,767 | 3,990,805 |
The 2023 figures are for the whole financial year; she joined the board part-way through it.
Links to Israel and the IDF
No funding for the Israel Defense Forces, IDF soldiers' welfare, pre-military academies or hesder yeshivot is recorded in the Disrupt Foundation's accounts for 2022 to 2025.[4] In 2025 the foundation's grants in Israel totalled £696,579 across 29 grants.[4] Its website states that it is "firmly opposed to the occupation of the Palestinian territories, to measures of apartheid, and to all human rights violations against Palestinians and other oppressed or marginalised communities".[5]
Companies House appointments
| Company | Company no. | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disrupt Foundation | 13738626 | Director (as "Einat Podjrany") | 28 July 2023 | – |
See also
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Charity Commission for England and Wales, Disrupt Foundation (1198872): trustees Register of Charities, accessed 21 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Companies House, Disrupt Foundation (13738626): officers Companies House, accessed 21 October 2026.
- ↑ Companies House, Disrupt Foundation (13738626): filing history Companies House, form AP01 filed 4 August 2023, accessed 21 October 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Disrupt Foundation, Trustees' report and financial statements for the periods ended 31 December 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, filed at Companies House and the Charity Commission, accessed 21 October 2026.
- ↑ Disrupt Foundation, Disrupt Foundation disrupt.org (Disrupt Foundation-side), accessed 21 October 2026.