Catherine Lewis Foundation

The Catherine Lewis Foundation, which was headed by multi-millionaire property investor David Lewis, until he died in 2011. It gave £6,500 to Civitas in 2006/7 and £25,000 in 2007/8. It also funds the Israel-Diaspora Trust an organisation founded by the late Rabbi Sidney Brichto, a passionate supporter of Israel and scourge of its critics inside and outside the UK Jewish community.

Grants paid

Grant recipients of the Catherine Lewis Foundation in £ sterling
	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	Total (£)
69 Brook Street Trust								1,000	1,000	1,000									3,000
Abberley Hall Foundation							1,000												1,000
Art UK															2,500	1,000			3,500
Ashmolean Museum	1,270					10,000	10,000	7,500	12,500	10,000									51,270
Assembly of Masorti Synagogues								2,500	7,500										10,000
Ben Uri Gallery	3,500	5,500																	9,000
Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre						1,000													1,000
Board of Deputies Charitables Foundation / Board of Deputies of British Jews		1,250	6,250	5,000	5,000	2,500													20,000
Bowes Museum									2,000					1,000				5,000	8,000
Breast Cancer Campaign								1,000											1,000
British Friends of Haifa University			1,500	1,500															3,000
British Friends of the Jaffa Institute	22,000	19,500	12,000	3,750	9,750	18,750	25,000	7,050											117,800
British Technion Society		1,000																	1,000
British Wizo		1,000																	1,000
Cancer Back-up					1,000														1,000
Canine Partners																		100	100
Chai Cancer Care				1,300															1,300
CHICKS																	250		250
Charities Trust								1,000	3,000										4,000
Churchill Centre UK									5,000										5,000
Civitas				6,250	25,000														31,250
Community Security Trust							5,000						10,000	15,000					30,000
Dove Trust										2,500									2,500
Dulwich Picture Gallery	1,000																		1,000
Educating the Children														1,000					1,000
Elias Ashmole Trust		1,000	1,500			1,000	1,000						1,500				1,000		7,000
Exeter Hebrew Congregation															100				100
European Council of Jewish Communities					10,000														10,000
Facing History and Ourselves				2,000	5,000	2,500	5,000												14,500
Fund for Refugees of Slovenia			1,000																1,000
Gabrielle's Angel Foundation										2,000									2,000
Happy Days																		100	100
Heart Cells Foundation					1,500	1,000													2,500
Henry Jackson Society							2,500	7,500	6,250	25,000			15,000		5,000	20,000			81,250
Holocaust Educational Trust			5,000	7,500	5,500		1,500	5,000					7,500	2,500					34,500
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust																	1,000		1,000
Hyde Park RUDA							1,000												1,000
Institute for Jewish Policy Research	3,750	5,000	5,000																13,750
Institute for Policy Research													1,000	12,000					13,000
Institute of Jewish Studies						1,000				1,000			1,000						3,000
International Associations of Jewish Lawyers & Judges							1,000												1,000
Israel Diaspora Trust	1,500	2,500	1,500	2,000	2,000				2,000					1,000	1,000				13,500
Jewish Blind & Disabled														1,000					1,000
Jewish Care			2,575	1,300	1,000			1,875	1,000	1,500						20,000	500		29,750
Jewish Legacy Giving										5,000									5,000
Jewish Museum London		2,800		5,000		25,000			3,000	2,500			7,500				3,000		48,800
JNF Charitable Trust					13,500	1,250													14,750
JW3 Development													2,500			5,000			7,500
Leo Baeck College						1,500													1,500
Leuka 2000	18,000	14,000	10,000	17,000	11,000	11,700	5,000	12,500	5,250	6,000			3,500	3,500					117,450
Lifelites															250	250			500
London Jewish Cultural Centre					13,500		25,000	58,333		50,000									146,833
Lord Mayor's Appeal 2005		1,000																	1,000
Maccabi GB			2,500																2,500
Marie Curie Cancer Care							1,000	1,000	1,180							1,000			4,180
Masorti Judaism													5,000						5,000
Mousetrap Theatre Projects					1,500														1,500
Mothers and Daughters							3,250												3,250
Myeloma										1,000									1,000
National Autistic Society		1,000																	1,000
National Holocaust Centre and Museum																	1,000		1,000
National Portrait Gallery																	2,500		2,500
New Israel Fund	3,200			3,750	5,000	6,000	5,000	3,750	2,500										29,200
New London Synagogue Trust	5,775	5,900	6,150	3,840	1,915	1,000		1,060	2,215				14,500	10,375		1,300	1,300	1,300	56,630
Nightingale House		1,000			2,500	2,500	1,500												7,500
Norwood Ravenswood		2,500	10,000	10,000															22,500
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies	22,800	31,500	27,164	20,000	27,150	64,800	72,500	37,250	56,000	25,000						10,000			394,164
Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice														1,000					1,000
Policy4Life					1,000														1,000
Politics of Economics Research Trust								1,000	2,250	13,750			6,000						23,000
Public Catalogue Foundation													2,500	2,500					5,000
Social Affairs Unit										2,500			15,000	10,000		20,000			47,500
Spiro Ark	3,750						1,000												4,750
St. Paul Girls' School Centenary Fund			1,000										1,000						2,000
Summer Camps Trust																		500	500
Tel Aviv Foundation		1,000	2,500			2,250	7,500	72,000	68,000										153,250
Tel Aviv Museum of Art	5,117	2,101	1,200																8,418
Tel-Aviv Foundation			161,243																161,243
Traditional Alternative Foundation						25,000	18,750	18,750	25,000										87,500
UNICEF	2,000																		2,000
Union of Jewish Students													5,000	3,750					8,750
United Jewish Israel Appeal		1,275																	1,275
United Synagogue							1,125										2,800		3,925
University College London	3,050	7,500	18,750	15,000	15,000	15,000	15,000	11,250	18,750	15,000			15,000	15,000	4,050				168,350
University of Buckingham							5,000	3,750	6,250	5,000									20,000
Vocal Eyes														1,000					1,000
Walpole Society																250		250	500
Walker Art Gallery								2,500											2,500
Wellbeing for Women																	1,000		1,000
Wiener Library													15,000						15,000
West London Synagogue				2,750															2,750
World Jewish Relief	31,035	6,250											5,000						42,285
Other grants paid less than £1,000	5,250	6,415	8,375	8,240	10,950	8,318	7,100	9,605	8,150	6,400			2,000	2,940		250			83,993

Data sources:

• The Catherine Lewis Foundation Financial Statements 31 March 2005.
• The Catherine Lewis Foundation Financial Statements 31 March 2006.
• The Catherine Lewis Foundation Financial Statements 31 March 2007.
• The Catherine Lewis Foundation Financial Statements 31 March 2008.
• The Catherine Lewis Foundation Financial Statements 31 March 2009.
• The Catherine Lewis Foundation Financial Statements 31 March 2011.
• The Catherine Lewis Foundation Financial Statements 31 March 2012.
• The Catherine Lewis Foundation Financial Statements 31 March 2013.
• The Catherine Lewis Foundation Financial Statements 31 March 2017.
• The Catherine Lewis Foundation Financial Statements 31 March 2019.
• The Catherine Lewis Foundation Financial Statements 31 March 2020.
• The Catherine Lewis Foundation Financial Statements 31 March 2021.

Trustees

• David Lewis
• Hannah Lewis
• H S Lewis
• Jane Charlotte Shasha nee Lewis
• Natalie Ruth Plaskow nee Lewis

Contact

H S Lewis

Catherine House

76 Gloucester Place

London, W1U 6HJ

Tel: 0207 487 3401