Creating a foundation under aegis

Providing your project with a sustainable framework

The CNRS Foundation is a host foundation. It therefore offers the possibility of creating your own dedicated fund or sheltered foundation.

In keeping with the CNRS’s mission – to carry out unrestricted multidisciplinary research at national and international level – the Foundation is open to hosting initiatives in support of research and innovation: foundations of researchers or foundations of patrons wishing to develop their field of action, their reputation and their fund-raising capabilities, by benefiting from the status of foundation under aegis.

The CNRS Foundation has legal personality and relieves the foundations it hosts of administrative and management burden, allowing them to devote their energy solely to supporting the causes they have chosen.

Why set up a dedicated fund or a foundation under aegis

The fund or foundation may freely take the name of its founders or highlight the cause it supports by name;
The tax advantages are identical to those of the CNRS Foundation;
The ability to receive legacies and donations;
Administrative support from the CNRS Foundation, while retaining considerable freedom in the collection and use of funds;
A freely chosen fixed term, or even perennial, a foundation with or without an initial endowment.