Reuben Foundation
The Reuben Foundation, formed in October 2002, is a UK-registered charity that was created to channel the charitable giving of the Reuben Brothers. [1] The foundation states:
- Formed in 2002 with an initial endowment of $100 million, the Reuben Foundation is committed to the betterment of society in the UK and around the globe through focused charitable giving in the areas of education, health and the community.[2]
Recipients
The Foundation mostly gives donations to non political causes. In 2012 these included the following grants of £20,000 or more:
ARK UK Programmes | British Film Institute | Great Ormond Street Hospital | Kristal Waters | Nancy Reuben Primary School| NSPCC | Racing Welfare | Team London | UCL Development Prize Lecture | William J Clinton Foundation[3]
It has also funded the Community Security Trust (0 in 2007; £50,000 in 2008; £25,000 in 2009; £25,000 in 2010; £25,000 in 2011; £25,000 in 2012)[4]
Trustees
Grant Recipients
| Grant recipients of the Reuben Foundation in £ sterling | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organisation | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | Total (£) |
| American School in London | 10,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 | |||||||||||||
| ARK Schools | 80,000 | 125,000 | 125,000 | 225,000 | 135,000 | 690,000 | ||||||||||
| ARK UK Programmes | 20,000 | 20,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Art of Wishes | 10,000 | 10,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Aspinall Foundation | 35,000 | 35,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Australia House | 10,000 | 10,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Bede Foodbank | 11,184 | 11,184 | ||||||||||||||
| Boys Town Jerusalem | 12,601 | 12,601 | ||||||||||||||
| Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) | 7,500 | 7,500 | 15,000 | |||||||||||||
| British Academy of Film and Television Arts | 500,000 | 500,000 | 300,000 | 1,300,000 | ||||||||||||
| British Film Institute | 113,815 | 31,608 | 42,082 | 13,879 | 140,972 | 20,000 | 120,000 | 482,356 | ||||||||
| British Friends of Boys Town Jerusalem | 17,968 | 22,995 | 40,963 | |||||||||||||
| Cambridge University | 459,164 | 197,681 | 358,061 | 424,876 | 70,000 | 1,509,782 | ||||||||||
| Cancer Research | 6,750 | 706 | 7,000 | 14,456 | ||||||||||||
| Carers Trust | 20,000 | 10,000 | 10,250 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 70,250 | |||||||||
| Central Synagogue | 225,000 | 225,000 | 450,000 | |||||||||||||
| Centrepoint | 147,300 | 7,600 | 44,966 | 80,150 | 472,390 | 752,406 | ||||||||||
| Chain of Hope | 5,000 | 5,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Chelsea & Westminster Hospital | 3,000,000 | 3,000,000 | ||||||||||||||
| CLIC Sargent | 1,000 | 1,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Community Security Trust | 50,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 27,500 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 252,500 | ||||||
| Design Museum | 10,000 | 200,000 | 50,000 | 260,000 | ||||||||||||
| Diner des Tsars | 15,863 | 15,863 | ||||||||||||||
| Evening Standard Dispossed Fund | 50,000 | 50,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Fauna & Flora International | 10,000 | 10,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Friends of Israel | 5,000 | 5,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Galilee Foundation | 25,000 | 25,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Great Ormond Street Hospital | 1,025,000 | 39,612 | 25,300 | 11,000 | 12,000 | 500 | 33,400 | 35,000 | 1,181,812 | |||||||
| Greenhouse Sports | 25,000 | 30,000 | 55,000 | |||||||||||||
| Holocaust Educational Trust | 12,000 | 7,000 | 128,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 222,000 | |||||||||
| Illuminated River Foundation | 1,500,000 | 1,500,000 | 3,000,000 | |||||||||||||
| Injured Jockeys Fund | 133,500 | 9,320 | 8,000 | 8,000 | 158,820 | |||||||||||
| Israel Cancer Association | 35,395 | 142,787 | 178,182 | |||||||||||||
| Jerusalem Network | 25,000 | 25,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Jewish Care | 10,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 140,000 | |||||
| Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation | 20,000 | 20,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Kristal Waters | 16,404 | 16,404 | ||||||||||||||
| Lamda | 10,000 | 10,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Leuka | 10,000 | 10,000 | ||||||||||||||
| London Library | 10,000 | 10,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Lyric Institute | 42,706 | 42,706 | ||||||||||||||
| Lyric Theatre | 10,000 | 10,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Make A Wish Foundation | 14,000 | 2,500 | 10,000 | 26,500 | ||||||||||||
| Mayo Clinic | 7,975 | 3,934 | 11,605 | 7,879 | 7,768 | 7,310 | 46,471 | |||||||||
| Monaco Hospital | 21,186 | 21,186 | ||||||||||||||
| Nancy Reuben Primary School | 178,746 | 10,000 | 180,513 | 101,738 | 100,900 | 200,900 | 310,900 | 282,900 | 280,000 | 255,000 | 1,901,597 | |||||
| National Horse Racing College | 8,000 | 8,000 | 16,000 | |||||||||||||
| Natwest Bound Trust | 10,500 | 10,500 | ||||||||||||||
| New York Philharmonic | 19,735 | 19,735 | ||||||||||||||
| Northern Racing College | 8,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 56,000 | |||||||||||
| Norwood | 11,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 25,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 58,700 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 266,700 | ||||||
| NSPCC | 15,000 | 25,200 | 5,000 | 3,500 | 7,000 | 55,700 | ||||||||||
| OPR in the Community Trust | 10,000 | 10,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Ormeley Dinner | 18,884 | 18,884 | ||||||||||||||
| Outward Bound Trust | 75,000 | 5,000 | 80,000 | |||||||||||||
| Princes Charities Foundation | 50,000 | 16,666 | 66,666 | |||||||||||||
| Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health | 10,400 | 10,400 | ||||||||||||||
| Princess Royal Trust Carers | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 40,000 | |||||||||||
| Racecourse Sanctuary | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 20,000 | |||||||||||
| Racing Welfare | 20,000 | 20,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Red Cross Manchester | 100,000 | 100,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Room to Read UK | 20,500 | 20,500 | ||||||||||||||
| Royal Marsden / Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign | 10,000 | 58,943 | 1,000,550 | 1,069,493 | ||||||||||||
| Sephardic Academy of Manhattan | 1,323,821 | 1,323,821 | ||||||||||||||
| Serpentine Trust | 25,000 | 25,000 | 10,000 | 60,000 | ||||||||||||
| Simon Wiesenthal Center | 20,719 | 20,719 | ||||||||||||||
| Stelios Philantropic Foundation | 45,364 | 45,364 | ||||||||||||||
| Team London | 670,000 | 1,330,000 | 2,000,000 | |||||||||||||
| Tony Blair Foundation | 10,000 | 10,000 | ||||||||||||||
| UCL Development Prize Lecture | 12,500 | 50,000 | 62,500 | |||||||||||||
| Unicef | 13,668 | 13,668 | ||||||||||||||
| University College London | 50,000 | 50,000 | ||||||||||||||
| University of Oxford | 1,385,888 | 15,000 | 502,500 | 1,903,388 | ||||||||||||
| University of Oxford (Reuben College) | 30,000,000 | 1,457,500 | 31,457,500 | |||||||||||||
| University of Southern California | 8,236 | 8,236 | ||||||||||||||
| Wales Air Ambulance | 5,000 | 5,000 | ||||||||||||||
| William J Clinton Foundation | 33,112 | 33,112 | ||||||||||||||
| Yad Vashem Holocaust Marytrs & Heroes Remembrance Authority | 7,068 | 500 | 10,500 | 11,000 | 29,068 | |||||||||||
| Yorkshire Air Ambulance | 7,102 | 7,000 | 13,000 | 27,102 | ||||||||||||
| Other grants | 130,801 | 215,392 | 318,670 | 281,246 | 262,417 | 366,858 | 326,864 | 375,303 | 318,824 | 323,204 | 2,919,579 | |||||
Data compiled from Reuben Foundation Annual Accounts: 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021
Affiliations
- Lobbying and PR firm Luther Pendragon was retained by the Reuben brothers in 2014 for public affairs work
See also
Notes
- ↑ 'The Reuben Foundation', Reuben Brothers website, accessed 12 May, 2009.
- ↑ Reuben Foundation About Us. Accessed 12 August 2014
- ↑ Reuben Foundation Trustees Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2012.
- ↑ Data from successive Annual Report and Accounts submitted to the Charity Commission.
- ↑ Reuben Foundation, Extract from the Central Register of Charities maintained by the Charity Commission for England and Wales.
