Facts and Figures

Growth in funding provided

The first Gerda Henkel Foundation Annual Report for 1977 notes that the Board of Trustees and the Management approved funding of some 540,000 deutschmarks for 21 projects. Since then, the Foundation’s total assets and the number of projects supported have gratifyingly risen. Only ten years later almost 500 scientific undertakings had been supported, and a total of around 14.5 million deutschmarks had been allocated to them. At present, the head office is liaising with some 2.051 on-going projects that are receiving funding – and in the more than 45 years of the Foundation’s existence, more than 8,300 research projects have been supported worldwide, with total funds committed of about EUR 290 million.

Distribution of funding
among funding areas

In the 2023 reporting year, the Board of Trustees, the Academic Advisory Council and the Executive Board granted funds amounting to a total of 20,011,341.27 euros. These have been allocated to individual funding areas as follows:

Distribution
of funding 2023

Asset allocation

The following overview shows the diversification of assets among the various asset classes:

Balance sheet 2023

In the following balance-sheet overview of the asset situation the individual items are grouped according to economic and financial aspects: