THE GALILEE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1118966 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To relieve poverty and advance the education of Palestinians living in Israel & the Palestinian Territories, regardless of gender or faith, in particular but not exclusively by promoting culture, heritage, art, science and research initiatives by the provision of training, advice and support.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net decrease in funds of $193,822 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in total net assets of $6,170,130. The trustees confirm that adequate resources are available to fund activities for the foreseeable future, with unrestricted reserves of $2,220,955 exceeding the stated policy target of $194,185. The auditor concluded that the use of the going concern basis is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from Under £60,000 (FY2024) to up to £60,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Galilee Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Marwan Bishara — Chairman (source)
• Sawsan Asfari — Director (source)
• Maha Alfarra — Managing Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (59% 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: 13.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Katherine Bucknell Maguire
• Dr MARWAN BISHARA
• Khalil Jahshan
• LEILA GARADAGHI
• SAWSAN ASFARI · trustee of 1 other charity
• YOUSEF SALAH BAZIAN

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

Operates in: Israel · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• SAWSAN ASFARI — trustee here and at THE ASFARI FOUNDATION

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GALILEO FOUNDATION.

• GALILEO FOUNDATION income £723k
• A M QATTAN FOUNDATION income £2.6m
• Friends of Palestinian Universities income £291k
• SF FOUNDATION income £7.7m
• VISTA EDUCATION AND TRAINING LIMITED income £488k
• BEN GURION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION income £767k

Side by side with its peers

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