Joseph Levy Charitable Foundation

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Levy-family grant-maker, removed in 2017, that funded UK health charities and Israeli causes including cystic fibrosis care

Joseph Levy Charitable Foundation

Type Trust (removed)
Founded 1965-11-11 (registered)
Dissolved 2017-04-19 (removed: reason not stated in the register extract)
Registration ID Registered charity 245592
Location 1 Bell Street, London NW1 5BY (office given in the 2010 accounts)
Area served Israel, Scotland


Joseph Levy Charitable Foundation (also registered as the Levy Foundation) was registered on 11 November 1965 and removed on 19 April 2017; register areas were Israel and Scotland, and its last reported income was £803,379 for the year to 31 March 2016.[1] Its 2010 accounts give its office as 1 Bell Street, London NW1 5BY, and describe a policy of "only funding registered charities in the United Kingdom and those organisations recognised as charitable in Israel"; it was closed to unsolicited applications. In 2009–10 it paid grants of £1,401,951, including £750,000 a year for three years to Dementia UK, and total funds were £16,707,005.[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "TO SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The Joseph Levy Charitable Foundation makes grant to charities for a wide range of charitable purposes. Further information can be obtained from our website www.jlf.org.uk"[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel, Scotland.[1]

Trustees

The register extract holds no trustee records for removed charities.

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2010-07-06 Peter Levy; Jane Jason; Claudia S Giat; Melanie T Levy; James P Jason [3]
2011-09-18 Peter Levy; Jane Jason; Claudia S Giat; Melanie T Levy; James P Jason [4]

The 2010 accounts name the trustees as P L Levy OBE, J N Jason OBE, M T Levy, J P Jason and C S Giat, with S Nyfield as Director.[2]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2014-04-05 £808,316 £339,419
2015-04-05 £805,006 £814,006
2016-03-31 £803,379 £472,401

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Historical finances (UK Government Web Archive)

Income and spending shown on archived register pages
Financial year end Income (£) Spending (£) Source
05 Apr 2005 960,707 1,976,171 [5]
05 Apr 2006 1,021,438 1,104,752 [5]
05 Apr 2007 919,801 813,779 [5]
05 Apr 2008 923,592 4,073,415 [5]
05 Apr 2009 841,750 395,909 [5]
05 Apr 2010 794,830 1,000,619 [6]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2006[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2007[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2008[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2009[10]
  • Accounts for the year ended 05/04/2010[11]

Funding in Israel

  • Grants to bodies connected with trustees, as disclosed in the related-party notes: Ashkelon Foundation (C Giat) £145,372 in 2007–08, £19,290 in 2008–09 and £62,396 in 2009–10;[12][13][2] United Jewish Israel Appeal on behalf of Merchavim (C S Giat) £15,000 in 2004–05.[14]
  • Other Israel-linked entries: commitments of £10,000 (at April 2006) and £9,000 (at April 2009) to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Israel;[14][13] a further commitment of £10,000 to UJIA for Merchavim (2007–08);[12] and £10,000 to the Friends of Israel Education Foundation (2009–10).[2]

Israeli partners

Ashkelon Foundation; Merchavim (through UJIA); Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Israel.[14][12]

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.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
No grant is placed in the occupied territories in the archived accounts read (2006–2010); no project address is given for the Ashkelon Foundation.[2][12] Not established

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[2]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No regulatory action found on the Charity Commission register as of October 2026; no Charity Commission inquiry or Official Warning naming this charity was found.
  • Removal. The register extract records removal on 19 April 2017 but no reason.[1]
  • Related-party grants and loan (2006). The 2006 accounts list among grants to bodies connected with trustees £400,000 to Akiva School (P L Levy) and £109,011 to For Dementia (P L Levy and J N Jason; 2005: £892,336), and record a loan of £75,000 to the Jane Jason Charitable Trust.[14] The 2008 accounts record a new commitment of £3,407,114 to For Dementia.[12]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

Although the register lists Scotland as an area of operation, no entry for "Joseph Levy" or "Levy Foundation" was found on the Scottish Charity Register (full register download of 14 October 2026 searched by name).[15] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[16]

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; results were limited to Companies House filing lists.[17]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[18]

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.[19]

Land and property

The register extract does not record whether the charity owned or leased land or property (the field is blank for this removed charity).[1] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[20] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[21]

  • 1 Bell Street, London NW1 5BY (title BB33430, leasehold, proprietor added 7 May 2024) – the charity's registered office in its 2010 accounts – CCOD name-only match – proprietor 'JOSEPH LEVY FOUNDATION' (no company number); this charity was removed in 2017, so the proprietor may be another or successor body – not attributed (source: [21])

Parliament

Hansard searches for 'Joseph Levy Charitable Foundation', 'Joseph Levy Foundation' returned 0 contributions in total.[22]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 4 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Removed charity" and "Other regulators: not shown".[23]

See also

External links

  • No current official website.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 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), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Charity Commission, The Joseph Levy Charitable Foundation: accounts for the year ended 5 April 2010 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 21 September 2011); the charity was removed from the register on 19 April 2017 and the live register offers no accounts ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ Register entry 245592, contact and trustees (capture of 20100706) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Register entry 245592, contact and trustees (capture of 20110918) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Register entry 245592, financial history (capture of 20100706) UK Government Web Archive.
  6. ↑ Register entry 245592, financial history (capture of 20110918) UK Government Web Archive.
  7. ↑ Joseph Levy Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2006-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110921).
  8. ↑ Joseph Levy Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2007-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110921).
  9. ↑ Joseph Levy Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2008-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110921).
  10. ↑ Joseph Levy Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2009-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110921).
  11. ↑ Joseph Levy Charitable Foundation accounts, year ended 2010-04-05 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20110921).
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Charity Commission, The Joseph Levy Charitable Foundation: accounts for the year ended 5 April 2008 UK Government Web Archive.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Charity Commission, The Joseph Levy Charitable Foundation: accounts for the year ended 5 April 2009 UK Government Web Archive.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Charity Commission, The Joseph Levy Charitable Foundation: accounts for the year ended 5 April 2006 UK Government Web Archive.
  15. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, CharityExport-14-Oct-2026.csv, downloaded 14 October 2026; keyword search of charity names for the batch-5 charities found no matching Scottish registration.
  16. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch-5 charity name returned zero results).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Joseph Levy Charitable Foundation' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-245592 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  19. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-5 screening covered 345 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages and archived full-print register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies, and trustees, officers and related persons named in the accounts read for this batch (including archived accounts) and on the Companies House pages for Brightness Ltd; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually (all candidate hits were surname-only coincidences or generic word overlaps); lists downloaded October 2026.
  20. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access on 14 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.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) full extract, October 2026 release, matched on charitable company numbers and registered names; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  22. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'Joseph Levy Charitable Foundation' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
  23. ↑ Register entry 245592, full print (capture of 20210114) UK Government Web Archive.
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