SF Foundation

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UK Orthodox Jewish grant-making company funding UK and Israel institutions

SF Foundation

Type Charitable company
Founded 2004-09-13 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1105843; company 05213113
Headquarters 143 Upper Clapton Road, London, E5 9DB
Area served Israel, United States, Switzerland
Key people Rivka Niederman (chair)

SF Foundation is a charitable company. Objects cover Jewish religion, education and alleviation of poverty; areas include Israel, the United States and Switzerland.[1] Institutional grants in the year ended 31 January 2025 totalled £2,663,595, including Yetev Lev London Jerusalem Trust £391,911 and Tora Chesed Vchinuch Beretz Israel £142,462.[2]

(Charity number 1105843 | Company number 05213113)

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "(I) THE ADVANCEMENT AND FURTHERANCE OF THE JEWISH RELIGION AND JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND THE ALLEVIATION OF POVERTY AMONG THE JEWISH COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD;(II) OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The objects of the charity are:i) the advancement and furtherance of the Jewish Religion and Jewish Religious education and the alleviation of poverty among the Jewish community throughout the world.ii) other charitable activities that the trustees may from time to time determine."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity, Recreation, Other Charitable Purposes.[1]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Israel, United States, Switzerland.[1]

People

Trustees

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships
Rivka Niederman Chair None on Record
Hannah Lipschitz Trustee None on Record
Miriam Schreiber Trustee None on record

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-07-06 Mrs M Schreiber; Rivka Niederman (chair) – also trustee of Friends of Wmsbg-kolel Damesek Eliezer, The Schreib Trust; Ms Hannah Jacob [3]

Companies House officers

Companies House lists 6 current and former officers of the charitable company (05213113), 4 of them active.[4]

Appointments of these officers to overseas companies registered in the UK (FC) or on the Register of Overseas Entities (OE):

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2021-01-31 £4,556,674 £2,926,627
2022-01-31 £913,861 £3,673,934
2023-01-31 £6,268,616 £4,637,049
2024-01-31 £4,049,493 £7,324,907
2025-01-31 £7,713,859 £5,087,383

Source: register annual-return history.[1]

Archived accounts

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

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2015[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2016[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2017[8]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2018[9]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/01/2019[10]

Funding in Israel

Israeli partners

UK and Israel Orthodox institutions; "Beretz Israel" (in the Land of Israel) in grantee names.[2]

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 Modi'in Illit / Kiryat Sefer line item; general Israel grants without settlement mapping. low

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

Controversies and regulatory action

  • Links to cheque-cashing class inquiry grantees. FY2025 grants include United Talmudical Associates Ltd £73,325 and V'yoel Moshe Charitable Trust £39,260; FY2024 grants include United Talmudical Associates £181,960 and Yad Vochessed Association and Congregation Vyoel Moshe D'satmer (Satmar Kolel appears among 2024 recipients). UTA, V'yoel Moshe, Yad Vochessed and Satmar Kolel have been named in the Commission's cheque-cashing class inquiry press releases.[11][12][13][2] SF Foundation itself is not named as under inquiry.
  • Further grants to names in the cheque-cashing class inquiry (FY2024). Grants in the year to 31 January 2024 include Beis Aharon Trust £52,900 and Reb Shayale's Tzeduka £28,500 (PDF p.25).[2] These names resemble Beis Aharon Charitable Trust Limited (1010420), named in May 2025,[11] and Reb Shayale’s Tzeduke (1158689), named in December 2025;[13] no charity numbers are given, so the matches are by name only.
  • Companies House appointments for officer Miriam Schreiber include overseas companies Seashore Properties Limited (FC021262), Kingscliff Estates Limited (FC021261) and Maple Leaf Properties Limited (FC021260).

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (full register download of 14 October 2026 searched by name).[14] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[15]

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.[16]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[17]

Sanctions screening

The names of current and archived trustees and Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match on full name was found; only coincidental surname matches.[18]

Land and property

The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[1] No title registers were purchased.[19] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[20]

  • Register records land ownership; Miriam Schreiber holds overseas FC appointments (Seashore Properties FC021262, Kingscliff Estates FC021261, Maple Leaf Properties FC021260) – not UK title numbers – Register + Companies House FC appointments (source: register + Companies House)

Parliament

A search of Hansard for 'SF Foundation' returned 0 contributions in total.[21]

Web archive

The UK Government Web Archive holds 2 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)" and "Other regulators: No information available".[3]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 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, SF Foundation (1105843): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 14 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1105843, full print (capture of 20210706) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ Company 05213113: officers Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 SCHREIBER, Miriam: appointments Companies House, viewed 14 October 2026.
  6. ↑ SF Foundation accounts, year ended 2015-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  7. ↑ SF Foundation accounts, year ended 2016-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  8. ↑ SF Foundation accounts, year ended 2017-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  9. ↑ SF Foundation accounts, year ended 2018-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  10. ↑ SF Foundation accounts, year ended 2019-01-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  14. ↑ 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 found no matching Scottish registration (the only hit for "breakthrough" was Breakthrough Breast Cancer SC039058, unrelated).
  15. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 14 October 2026 (keyword searches for each batch charity name returned zero results).
  16. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'SF Foundation' The Gazette, searched 14 October 2026.
  17. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1105843 360Giving, queried 14 October 2026.
  18. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV, version of 12 October 2026); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv, last updated 3 June 2026). Screening of 405 names (current and archived trustees and Companies House officers of the 25 batch-1 charities) carried out 14 October 2026.
  19. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK, accessed 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.
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching 'SF Foundation' Hansard, queried 14 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints).
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