The Gatsby Charitable Foundation is an endowed grant-making trust, based in London. The organisation is one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, set up to provide funding for charitable causes. Although the organisation is permitted in its Trust Deed to make general grants within this broad area, its activities have generally been restricted to a limited number of fields. At the time of writing, these fields are:
However, these categories may change from time to time. Amongst its activities, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation funds the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit[1] at University College London, the Sainsbury Management Fellowships and the Institute for Government based in Carlton House Terrace. It has long funded the Centre for Mental Health but is mostly withdrawing that funding in 2010.