The Eliezer Foundation

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Stamford Hill trust living on rents from properties bought with Joshua Trust money

The Eliezer Foundation

Type Other
Founded 2008-10-02 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1126142
Headquarters London N15
Area served Throughout London, Israel, United States


The Eliezer Foundation is a trust (declaration of trust of 5 August 2008) registered on 2 October 2008; register areas are London, Israel and the United States.[1] Its trustees are Beatrix Grussgott, Robert Grussgott, Susanne Schreiber and Charlotte Snyder, and its address is in London N15.[1] It makes grants or interest-free loans, funded by investment income from "substantial donations received from The Joshua Trust" (The Joshua Trust, 255922) (PDF p.4).[2] In 2024 income was £266,913 (rents £246,644; donations from registered charities £20,000), grants £229,000 and the deficit £29,860; funds were £3,698,364 (PDF p.8, 12).[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX JEWISH FAITH2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHODOX JEWISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION3) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND INFIRMITY AMONGST MEMBERS OF THE JEWISH FAITH AND4) SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO ENGLISH LAW."[1]

The register describes its activities as: "The Trustees stand possessed of the Trust Fund upon trust to pay or apply the whole of the trust fund for those purposes, both in the United Kingdom and abroad, to beneficiaries recognised as Charitable in accordance with English Law."[1]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities, Other Charitable Purposes.[1]

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

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[1]

Trustees of The Eliezer Foundation (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Beatrix Grussgott not recorded Britefield Trust (1133072)
Robert Grussgott not recorded A T.i.m.e. Limited (1128756); Agudas Israel Community Services (287367); Agudas Israel Organisation of Great Britain (290191); Bikur Cholim Limited (1085965); Britefield Trust (1133072); The Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations (1158987); The Zeire Agudath Israel General Charitable Trust (280604); Uohc Properties Ltd (1164379)
Susanne Schreiber not recorded —
Charlotte Snyder not recorded —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-01-11 Susanne Schreiber; Robert Grussgott – also trustee of The Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, Agudas Israel Community Services, Borbat Limited, Bikur Cholim Limited, The Zeire Agudath Israel General Charitable Trust, Britefield Trust, A T.i.m.e. Limited; Beatrix Grussgott – also trustee of Britefield Trust; Charlotte Snyder [3]

Robert Grussgott is recorded on the register as a trustee of Agudas Israel Community Services, Agudas Israel Organisation of Great Britain, Bikur Cholim Limited, Britefield Trust, The Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, UOHC Properties Ltd, The Zeire Agudath Israel General Charitable Trust and A T.I.M.E. Limited; Beatrix Grussgott of Britefield Trust.[1]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2020-12-31 £235,070 £482,771
2021-12-31 £247,768 £157,260
2022-12-31 £225,528 £256,197
2023-12-31 £246,542 £195,008
2024-12-31 £266,913 £296,773

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 31/12/2014[4]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[8]

Funding in Israel

  • 2024 grants £229,000 (education £118,500, general £58,000, religious £23,000, welfare £29,500): Vishnitz Girls School Ltd £20,000, Beis Amram Charitable Trust £20,000, Lehachzikom UK £20,000 and 30 other donations £169,000; 2023 grants included Yesamach Levav Trust £25,000, Live & Learn £15,000 and Telz Talmudical Academy £13,000 (PDF p.12).[2] Lehachzikom (1176141) and Yesamach Levav (1127977) have batch-1 profiles, and The Telz Talmudical Academy and Talmud Torah Trust (299687) a batch-8 profile; their identity with the recipients named in the accounts rests on the names.

Israeli partners

No Israeli organisation is named.[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 place in Israel is named. Not established

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

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Charity Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this charity was found, and its register entry shows no regulatory alert;[9] it is not among the charities named in the Commission's cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements (May, September and December 2025) or in the September 2026 statement of results.[10][11][12][13] The charities in the Commission's settlements class inquiry (opened August 2026) have not been named, so it is not known whether this charity is among them.[14]
  • Property valued by the trustees; rent withheld. About £2.5 million was invested in a freehold let to a housing association on a long lease, valued by the trustees at £3.85 million; for a second property "the tenants have withheld the rent", rent was nil and it is valued at £430,000. The properties (£4,280,000, of which £1,420,342 revaluation) carry a secured bank loan of £640,074 (PDF p.4–5, 14–15).[2]
  • Deficit misstated. The trustees' report describes a deficit of "£(82)k", while the statement of financial activities shows £29,860 (PDF p.5, 8).[2]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 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.[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 records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[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]

  • Two freehold investment properties, £4,280,000 at 31 December 2024 on the trustees' valuation – one let to a housing association on a long lease, the other let to tenants who "have withheld the rent"; a bank loan of £640,074 is secured on one of them; addresses not stated – Accounts (PDF p.4–5, 14–15); the trust is unincorporated, so no CCOD company match is possible (source: [2])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Eliezer Foundation" returned 0 contributions in total.[22]

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" and "Other regulators: No information available".[3]

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 1.8 1.9 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 2.6 2.7 Charity Commission, The Eliezer Foundation (1126142): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 15 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Register entry 1126142, full print (capture of 20210111) UK Government Web Archive.
  4. ↑ The Eliezer Foundation accounts, year ended 2014-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  5. ↑ The Eliezer Foundation accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  6. ↑ The Eliezer Foundation accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  7. ↑ The Eliezer Foundation accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  8. ↑ The Eliezer Foundation accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200104).
  9. ↑ Charity Commission, Register of Charities, charity overview page (register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/ followed by the organisation number) for each of the 25 batch-11 charities, all retrieved successfully on 15 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" section; none was shown for any of them. The pages showed reporting status (for example "Charity reporting is up to date (39 days late)" for British Friends of Rambam Medical Centre, "(4 days late)" for British Friends of Aleh and "(11 days late)" for Urgent Projects).
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues GOV.UK, 9 September 2026, with Statement of the results of a class inquiry (same date), both retrieved 15 October 2026.
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026, retrieved 15 October 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  15. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026, downloaded October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-11 charity names found no matching Scottish registration (the only hits were unrelated names such as J R Gibb Charitable Trust and Boleskine Community Care).
  16. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 15 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-11 charity names returned zero results).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Eliezer Foundation' The Gazette, searched 15 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1126142 360Giving, queried 15 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-11 screening covered 386 name strings: the 25 charity names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages (UK Government Web Archive), Companies House officers of the charitable companies and of related companies named in the accounts (GS Property Management Services, Igerville, Housefresh, Vitalina, Rochester Developments and Delapage), and trustees, examiners, donors and grant recipients named in the accounts read for this batch; matching on surname plus forename tokens, reviewed manually. No forename-and-surname match for any person was found; the only token matches were generic words in organisation names ("Trust", "Fund", "Israel", "Republic") and surname-only coincidences (Cohen, Levy, Friedman, Green, Said); 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 in 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. ↑ HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) and Overseas companies that own property in England and Wales (OCOD) full extracts, October 2026 release, matched on charitable company numbers, registered names and the names of subsidiaries named in the accounts; title numbers listed are candidates only – no title registers were purchased.
  22. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Eliezer Foundation" Hansard, queried 15 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
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