The foundation landscape continues to grow: 895 new foundations in 2025
The foundation landscape continues to grow: 895 new foundations in 2025. This brings the number of foundations with legal status according to civil law to 27,082. The foundation sector in Germany thus grew by 2.8 percent.
International co-operation
The Association of German Foundations is part of an international network; it supports and advises German foundations that work internationally, many of them in the development cooperation sector.
Facts and figures
The documentation and research of the foundation system is a central task of the Association of German Foundations.