We are educated as enlightened people and are therefore able to participate in the social communities surrounding us in many different ways. Through this we have experienced how helpful education and upbringing is in order to do something meaningful in our concrete living environment and thus also fill our own lives with sense.

We are open minded people, have traveled a lot. For us, foreign cultures and philosophies of life, but also misery and poverty, the traces of often man-made catastrophes such as wars, mass destruction, expulsions, terror, violence and exploitation have taught us to see the world with different, wider eyes and to recognize how privileged we live in Central Europe today. But we have also experienced how much good minded people can achieve with the means of reason, mercy and sacrifice on a small and large scale.

The foundation was established on February 3, 2020. On 18 February 2020, it was recognized by the Stuttgart Regional Council as a foundation with legal capacity under civil law. It is entered in the publicly accessible foundation register there. According to the notice of exemption from the Leonberg tax office, most recently dated 22.04.2024 for tax number 70054/42775, the foundation is recognized as a non-profit organization and may issue donation receipts. Currently, February 2025, the foundation's capital amounts to € 1.8 million. The total foundation assets including reserves amount to around € 2,000,000. The project volume (funds used to fulfill the purpose of the foundation) amounts to around € 200,000 per year. The foundation maintains a scholarship program with school and study scholarship holders in 5 countries and also supports institutional educational projects. Thomas Hoene is Chairman of the Foundation Board, Marie-Theres Mayer is Chairwoman of the Foundation Board.

From years of experience in charitable foundation work, we know that developing a foundation requires effort and patience. We have set ourselves the goal of growing the foundation's assets to € 5 million by the end of 2028 so that we can continue to develop sustainable foundation work beyond the current scope of action. We want to make a big difference, even though we are aware that we cannot change the world on our own. Therefore we are looking for partners at all levels. Anyone who wants to participate can do so

• through donations,
• Endowments to the foundation capital
• dependent trust foundations in which we act as trustee or 
• as a project partner in current or future funded projects.