Catherine Lewis Foundation

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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.[1] 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.[2]

Grants paid

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

Trustees

Contact

H S Lewis
Catherine House
76 Gloucester Place
London, W1U 6HJ
Tel: 0207 487 3401

Notes

  1. The Catherine Lewis Foundation, Financial Statements 31 March 2008.
  2. ‘Rabbi Sidney Brichto: leader of Britain’s Liberal Jews’, The Times, 20 February 2009.