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VELUX foundations

VILLUM FONDEN and VELUX Fonden

The founder of the VKR Group, Villum Kann Rasmussen, instigated the Villum Kann Rasmussen Fonden in 1971 (now Willum Fonden), and ten years later VELUX Fonden.

Both foundations – the VELUX FONDEN and the VILLUM FONDEN –provide support for larger, non-profit projects with scientific, cultural, artistic or social objectives.

The VELUX FONDEN focuses its grants particularly on projects associated with culture, as well as with medical science, the humanities and social objectives.

The VILLUM FONDEN targets its grants towards research and dissemination within the fields of natural sciences and technology, as well as to social, environmental and cultural projects. The foundation has the special function of awarding the Villum Kann Rasmussen Annual Award for Technical and Scientific Research.


VELUX Foundations 2010 The VILLUM FOUNDATION and the VELUX FOUNDATION are both non-profit foundations governed by Danish law and subject to the supervision of the Civil Affairs Agency under the Danish Ministry of Justice. The two Foundations each have their own independent board.

In 2010, the two foundations made 356 donations worth a total of DKK 413,624,203.