The SVH Foundation

Registered charity 1064635 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE NGT FOUNDATION

The NGT Foundation manages its investment responsibly and efficiently so as to be able to support the charitable objects of the National Gallery. The Foundation achieves this by making grants to the National Gallery Trust.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £3.1 million for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by a £1.95 million loss on the revaluation of its investment property. Despite this loss, the charity maintained unrestricted general reserves of approximately £3.8 million, which the trustees consider adequate to meet the foundation's needs. The trustees confirmed the charity is a going concern with sufficient resources to meet obligations for the next twelve months.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03444689

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• LEES, Diane, Dame — director, appointed 01/04/2026on trustee list
• BOOTH, John David Sebastian — director, appointed 01/04/2026on trustee list
• KINGMAN, John, Sir — director, appointed 01/04/2026on trustee list
• RATIBOR, Stefan — director, appointed 12/03/2024on trustee list
• PELTZ, Daniel — director, appointed 15/04/2019on trustee list
• MARKS, David Benjamin — director, appointed 16/10/2018on trustee list
• HAYES, Victoria Jane Capel — secretary, appointed 07/10/2019

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 24.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Benjamin Markschair
• Daniel Peltz · trustee of 6 other charities
• Diane Lees
• John Booth · trustee of 4 other charities
• Sir John Kingman
• Stefan Ratibor

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: City Of Westminster

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NATIONAL GALLERY TRUST.

• THE NATIONAL GALLERY TRUST income £8.4m
• THE TANAGRA FOUNDATION income £147k
• NML FOUNDATION income £221k
• GRAFF FOUNDATION income £1.4m
• The Grocott Family Foundation income £926k
• THE GENERATIONS FOUNDATION income £138k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.