Notaries and wealth managers

In 2019, the Centre national de recherche scientifique (CNRS), a French multidisciplinary research organisation, created the CNRS Foundation, a partnership foundation whose purpose is to contribute directly or indirectly to the development and promotion of the CNRS, in all areas corresponding to its missions, as well as scientific and technological research, both in France and internationally. 

The Foundation is managed on a disinterested basis. It carries out not-for-profit activities and is eligible for tax incentives for sponsorship, meeting the conditions set out in articles 200, 238 bis and 978 of the General Tax Code.

Partnership foundations can be likened to public interest foundations by virtue of their characteristics: special resources (donations, sponsorship, proceeds from appeals to public generosity, investment property), unlimited lifespan, possibility of housing foundations under their aegis, etc.