The Gatsby Charitable Foundation

The Gatsby Charitable Foundation (Charity no. 251988) is an endowed grant-making trust, where trustees can give money to any charitable cause. It was founded in 1967 by David Sainsbury.'About Gatsby', The Gatsby Charitable Foundation website, accessed 8 July 2016. It has strong links with the biotech industry and according to the foundations website it works in many areas including: plant science, neuroscience, education, Africa, public policy and the arts. In July 1998 the trust provided the funds for the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit to be created at University College London (UCL).The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit - UCL, accessed 8 July 2016. The Gatsby Foundation also runs the Gatsby Plant Science summer school; an 'intensive week of talks from leading scientists, constructive careers sessions, eye-opening practicals and thought-provoking discussions with researchers and peers turns some of the UK’s brightest bioscience undergraduates on to a future in plant science'.'Gatsby Plant Science summer school', Gatsby Charitable Foundation website, accessed 8 July 2016.
==Biotech==
Through his Gatsby Charitable Foundation Lord Sainsbury has put millions into the study of plant genetics. Gatsby gives approximately £2 million a year to the Sainsbury Laboratory of the John Innes Centre, which does research into GM crops. 'Labour's Business Backers: Are They Ethical?', Friends of the Earth, accessed 8 July 2016. Lord Sainsbury helped found the Laboratory in 1987 and his Gatsby Foundation remains its principal source of funding, although it also receives over £800,000 a year from the Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council (BBSRC) , for which Sainsbury is responsible in his ministerial role.'Lord Sainsbury Quits as Minister', BBC, accessed 8 July 2016. Its grant has increased several fold during Sainsbury's time as minister. 
Like his biotech investments, his Gatsby contributions have been administered through a blind trust run by his solicitor Judith Portrait since Sainsbury became UK Science Minister. Portrait is also a Gatsby trustee. 'Report of the Directors', J Sainsbury plc. Retrieved via the Internet Archive of 26 February 2009 on 8 July 2016. Although he does not attend Gatsby meetings or make decisions, Sainsbury retains the power to appoint and dismiss its trustees.
Whilst Science Minister in 2000 Lord Sainsbury drew some criticism after stating he was in favour of therapeutic cloning (the cloning of human embryos which could allow scientists to create "spare parts" for the body). In an interview with The Telegraph he said "The important benefits which can come from this research outweigh any other considerations one might have - that would be my own personal ethical judgment".Rachel Sylvester, 'Sainsbury's own brand - science and some Gatsby', 29 July 2000, accessed 8 July 2016.
==Political Donations==
Lord Sainsbury has a long record of providing donations to political parties. In the 1980s, before he was Lord Sainsbury, he provided significant funding to the Social Democrats. Once Labour moved more towards the centre of the political spectrum, he began to provide financial help to the party. It is believed that in total he donated up to £16 million to the Labour Party since 1994, when Tony Blair became leader.Profile: Lord Sainsbury, BBC, 8 September 1999, accessed 8 July 2016.BBC, 'Lord Sainsbury Quits as Minister', BBC, 10 November 2006, accessed 8 July 2016.
He was given his peerage in 1997 and became Government Minister for Science in 1998. 
==People==
List of key staff working at the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. Correct as of 8 July 2016.Key People, The Gatsby Charitable Foundation website, accessed 8 July 2016.
===Settlor===
*David Sainsbury
===Trustee Board===
*Judith Susan Portrait
*Andrew Thomas Cahn
*Joseph Burns
===Senior Advisors ===
*Sarah Caddick - Neuroscience 
*Laurence Cockcroft - Africa Programmes 
*Roger Freedman - Plant Science
===Senior Staff ===
*Alan Bookbinder - Head of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts 
*Peter Hesketh - Director of Gatsby 
*Karen Everett - Finance Director 
*Nigel Thomas - Science & Engineering Education 
*Justin Highstead - Africa Programmes
===Staff ===
*Jennifer Allen - Science & Engineering Education
*Jenifer Burden - Science & Engineering Education
*Olivia Elliot - Africa Programmes
*Christine Farry - PA to Alan Bookbinder 
*Jenni French - Science & Engineering Education
*Kate Ford - Science & Engineering Education
*James Foster - Africa Programmes 
*Ben Gimson - Africa Programmes 
*Nikki Jeffery - Africa Programmes 
*Robert Jenkins - Africa Programmes 
*Beth Jones - Science & Engineering Education
*Lee Kirkham - Africa Programmes
*Laura McDonald - Africa Programmes 
*David McNicoll - Africa Programmes
*Mahmood Noman - Africa Programmes
*Claire Nylander - Africa Programmes 
*Ginny Page - Science & Engineering Education 
*Luke Potter - Africa Programmes
*Rafia Qureshi - Africa Programmes
*Michelle Rea - Science & Engineering Education 
*Faye Riley - Science & Engineering Education 
*Jessica Roberts - PA to Peter Hesketh 
*Daniel Sandford Smith - Science & Engineering Education 
*Jean Scrase - Science & Engineering Education 
*Andrew Smith - Africa Programmes 
*Hannah Stanwix - Science & Engineering Education 
*Jack Steege - Africa Programmes 
*Gary Wilson - Neuroscience, Plant Science
==Grants given==
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Gatsby Charitable Foundation 	2018 	2019 	2020 	2021 	2022 	2023 	Total
2Blades Foundation 	2,688,614 	1,524,000 	1,593,000 	777,000 	726,000 	544,000 	7,852,614
Aquifer 	1,078,487 	1,080,000 	 	 	 	 	2,158,487
Ascona Meetings on Neuronal Circuits 	68,820 	 	 	 	 	 	68,820
Backstage Trust 	1,000,000 	1,000,000 	2,500,000 	2,000,000 	2,000,000 	20,000,000 	28,500,000
Baker Dearing Educational Trust 	150,000 	400,000 	 	 	 	 	550,000
Bennett Institute for Public Policy 	 	 	 	 	 	139,000 	139,000
British Neuroscience Association 	 	 	295,000 	 	150,000 	160,000 	605,000
Cambridge Arts Theatre 	 	 	 	 	2,000,000 	 	2,000,000
Cambridge Network 	250,000 	125,000 	 	100,000 	200,000 	400,000 	1,075,000
Cajal Advanced Neuroscience Training Programme AISBL 	 	 	 	218,000 	213,000 	449,000 	880,000
Centre for Cities 	800,000 	800,000 	1,100,000 	1,100,000 	1,100,000 	1,100,000 	6,000,000
Chamber Orchestra of Europe 	500,000 	500,000 	750,000 	500,000 	750,000 	750,000 	3,750,000
Clore Duffield Foundation 	 	 	 	 	 	130,000 	130,000
Columbia Univserity, New York 	303,393 	306,000 	312,000 	312,000 	283,000 	710,000 	2,226,393
Cosyne 	37,647 	 	 	 	 	 	37,647
Engineering UK 	50,000 	75,000 	75,000 	75,000 	 	 	275,000
Engineers in Business Fellowship 	525,318 	902,000 	1,170,000 	715,000 	965,000 	1,072,000 	5,349,318
Federation of European Neurosciences 	222,460 	214,000 	230,000 	 	 	 	666,460
Gatsby Africa (GA) 	9,500,000 	15,338,000 	15,500,000 	14,500,000 	15,182,000 	18,350,000 	88,370,000
Gatsby Technical Education Projects (GTEP) 	 	2,988,000 	353,000 	3,359,000 	1,617,000 	2,421,000 	10,738,000
Hebrew University of Jerusalem 	250,000 	215,000 	345,000 	304,000 	283,000 	345,000 	1,742,000
Imperial College London 	 	 	 	 	528,000 	637,000 	1,165,000
Indigo Trust 	 	 	 	 	 	5,000,000 	5,000,000
Institute for Government 	3,836,702 	4,063,000 	4,447,000 	4,746,000 	4,577,000 	5,253,000 	26,922,702
king's College London 	 	 	 	500,000 	 	 	500,000
Mercatus Center 	 	 	 	250,000 	 	 	250,000
Multiple Sclerosis Society 	 	 	100,000 	 	 	 	100,000
National Emergencies Trust 	 	 	1,000,000 	 	 	 	1,000,000
National STEM Centre 	 	245,000 	164,000 	 	 	 	409,000
New Philanthropy Capital 	 	 	 	200,000 	 	 	200,000
New York University - School of Medicine 	274,734 	 	150,000 	148,000 	 	 	572,734
Olive Luena Education Trust 	100,000 	 	 	 	 	 	100,000
Parkinson's UK 	 	 	 	 	 	1,600,000 	1,600,000
Radboud University Medical Centre 	 	2,055,000 	 	1,434,000 	1,640,000 	1,224,000 	6,353,000
Royal Academy of Music 	5,500,000 	 	 	 	6,000,000 	 	11,500,000
Royal College of Psychiatrists 	85,328 	 	 	 	 	 	85,328
Royal Shakespeare Company 	267,500 	268,000 	268,000 	268,000 	268,000 	500,000 	1,839,500
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts 	910,000 	706,000 	937,000 	700,000 	712,000 	53,000 	4,018,000
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures 	569,541 	400,000 	402,000 	400,000 	466,000 	477,000 	2,714,541
Sainsbury Laboratory - Norwich 	2,850,000 	2,820,000 	3,845,000 	3,370,000 	3,145,000 	6,407,000 	22,437,000
Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas 	250,000 	250,000 	225,000 	225,000 	225,000 	 	1,175,000
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 	90,000 	90,000 	 	 	 	 	180,000
Science & Plants for Schools (SAPS) and the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School	316,692 	414,000 	536,000 	 	 	 	1,266,692
Society for Neuroscience 	93,901 	99,000 	101,000 	93,000 	 	 	386,901
St Mark's Hospital, London 	 	 	 	 	 	920,000 	920,000
Stanford University 	374,280 	774,000 	783,000 	761,000 	911,000 	416,000 	4,019,280
Theatre Development Trust 	 	 	 	 	1,250,000 	 	1,250,000
Three Guineas Trust 	 	 	 	 	 	20,000,000 	20,000,000
True Colours Trust 	 	 	 	300,000 	 	10,000,000 	10,300,000
Trussell Trust 	 	 	1,000,000 	 	 	 	1,000,000
Unionlearn 	19,065 	 	 	 	 	 	19,065
University College London 	15,054,843 	8,753,000 	2,386,000 	3,449,000 	9,377,000 	20,837,000 	59,856,843
University of Cambridge 	9,025,000 	9,101,000 	9,246,000 	8,541,000 	9,437,000 	5,840,000 	51,190,000
University of Cambridge and Kings College, Cambridge 	 	 	 	130,000 	 	150,000 	280,000
University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing 	466,917 	712,000 	627,000 	350,000 	 	828,000 	2,983,917
University of Oxford 	531,699 	474,000 	352,000 	232,000 	196,000 	 	1,785,699
Wood Foundation 	 	 	 	 	 	903,000 	903,000
Other grants: 	433,269 	138,873 	413,000 	398,000 	723,000 	679,000 	2,785,142
Total Grants: 	58,474,210 	56,829,873 	51,205,000 	50,455,000 	64,924,000 	128,294,000 	410,182,083
===Data sources===
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*2015
*2016
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*The Gatsby Charitable Foundation, Annual Report 5 April 2018.
*The Gatsby Charitable Foundation, Annual Report 5 April 2019.
*The Gatsby Charitable Foundation, Annual Report 5 April 2020.
*The Gatsby Charitable Foundation, Annual Report 5 April 2021.
*The Gatsby Charitable Foundation, Annual Report 5 April 2022.
*The Gatsby Charitable Foundation, Annual Report 5 April 2023.
==Affiliations==
The Gatsby Charitable Foundation was a donor to the Science Media Centre between 2009 and 2014.Data from Internet Archive holdings of the Science Media Centre website, 2002-2014
*May 2009 http://web.archive.org/web/20090830202526/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/about/funding.htm
*May 2010 http://web.archive.org/web/20100822091312/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/about/funding.htm
*June 2011 http://web.archive.org/web/20110807075127/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/about/funding.htm
*August 2012 http://web.archive.org/web/20120922235445/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/about/funding.htm
*August 2013 http://powerbase.info/images/f/f2/Funding_-_Science_Media_Centre_-_as_at_August_2013_captured_16_August_2013.jpg
*August 2014 http://web.archive.org/web/20150316114254/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/about-us/funding/
==Contact==
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==See also==
*Charitable spending of the largest 100 UK family foundations - 2009
*Top 300 Foundations ranked by giving in the UK - 2019
*Top 300 Foundations ranked by giving in the UK - 2021
*Zionist Family Foundations ranked by charitable spending 2021-2
*The Sunday Times Rich List 2022
*Top 100 philanthropists in the UK - The Sunday Times Giving List 2022
==Resources==
*The Gatsby Charitable Foundation.
*Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit.
==Notes==
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