FINDING INDIVIDUAL SOLUTIONS – EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY
The basic expenses involved in managing a grantmaking foundation may consume a substantial portion of a foundation's income. The fixed costs of an umbrella fund are borne jointly by the member foundations. This allows more scope for the activities of individual donors.

YOUR FOUNDATION WITHIN THE FOUNDATION
As an alternative to costly individual foundations Fondation des Fondateurs offers the opportunity to create individual foundation funds – that guarantee compliance with the foundations' objectives, transparent accounting and reporting.

The advantages for you:
• Individual stipulation of defined grantmaking goals
• Participation in grantmaking decisions
• Dedicated fund assets with separate balance sheet and annual financial statements
• Step-by-step investment possible

TARGETED PROJECT SUPPORT
General Funds are available for one-time or occasional donor-advised funding.

The advantages for you:
• Individually agreed goals in the domains of "Civil Society", "Environment", and "Science & Technology"
• Professional management and simple administration
• Your choice of visibility or confidentiality

EXAMPLES

The objective of the Lori and Karl Lutz Fonds is to remove obstacles in the way of girls' and women's education. The donors, Lori and Karl Lutz, are founders of Fondation des Fondateurs.

The venture kick Fund is supported by GEBERT RÜF STIFTUNG, ERNST GÖHNER STIFTUNG, OPO-Stiftung, and AVINA STIFTUNG. Fondation des Fondateurs serves as the legal entity through which the donor foundations can realize their common project of the early-stage identification and promotion of promising business ideas at Swiss universities.

The Olive Grove Fund was established in 2009 in order to support education and development of disadvantaged youth in Switzerland and globally. An advisory board. of which the Fondateur is not member, makes recommendations to the board of trustees concerning the grnatmaking decisions.

The NLE-Fonds für nachhaltige lokale Energieversorgung supports the development of a technology to generate biofuels and biochar at the community level in the developing world.

The purpose of th Fund Vodou Cultural Centre and Museum, Haiti  the establishment of a Vodou Cultural Centre and Museum in Haiti in order to preserve, study, and exhibit a collection of extraordinary haitian objects of art. (Vodou exhibition in Berlin)

The Social Entrepreneurship Foundation supports perons or teams in finding innovative entrepreneurial solutions for social problems.

The purpose of the MINTeducation Foundation is the advancement of mathematics, informatics, natural science, and tchnology as educational issues on all school levels in Switzerland.

The molecuisine Foundation was established in 2011 in order to support knowledge and application of scientific innovations among cuisine professionals.