General information and application instructions
Welcome!
Since 1953, the National Defence Support Foundation has been working in various ways for the good of the Finnish Defence Forces. The Foundation realizes its statutory purpose by awarding annual grants for activities or fixed-term projects that promote the achievement of the Foundation’s objectives.
The purpose of the foundation is to use its property for
• training and physical education in the Defence Forces;
• for information and research work that promotes national defence and
• to support activities that develop general civic well-being.
The Foundation achieves its purpose by awarding grants either upon application or on its own initiative. The Foundation can also achieve its purpose in cooperation with other foundations or communities.
The Foundation’s domicile is Helsinki.
Application periods for grants
The Foundation’s Board of Directors processes grant applications twice a year. Spring grant applications must be submitted to the Foundation by 15 April. Decisions on the applications will be made by June.
This autumn’s grant applications must be submitted to the Foundation by 15 October. Decisions on the applications will be made by December.
How the application is made and what it should contain
The application for the grant is made on an electronic form, which is available here. The application form must be filled in via the online service, and the front page of the application must also be printed, signed and sent by mail to the foundation. All other attachments are only attached to the electronic application in the form of attachments.
Only applications whose application form has been sent in electronic form (via the online service) will be processed.
The grant applications must contain at least the following information:
The grant application must clearly and in sufficient detail state the activity or project for which the grant is sought and how it promotes the foundation’s objectives. The application must include a sufficiently detailed cost estimate, which shows how the grant applied for will be used for different purposes. In addition, the grant application must be accompanied by the applicant’s annual report, profit and loss account and balance sheet, as well as the auditor’s report for the previous year. The application must be accompanied by a notice of the grant applied for or received elsewhere for the same purpose.
If a grant is granted to a limited liability company, any profit share or the supported activity’s share of the limited liability company’s indirect costs or operating expenses will not be accepted as the basis for the grant.
When a grant is used to hire assistant staff, the recipient of the grant is obliged to take care of withholding tax and social security and insurance contributions. The beneficiary must declare the grant in their tax return. The Foundation sends the tax authorities a statutory inspection notification of the grants granted.
A grant commitment granted by the Foundation under certain conditions is valid for three years. If the purpose of the grant has not been realized in accordance with the terms and conditions set during this period, the grant commitment will cease to be valid, and the Foundation will direct the released funds to other purposes.
The Foundation requires that its name is mentioned as a supporter of the project when the results of the activities that have received the grant are published.
Apply for a grant here.
Timing of grant payment
Grants granted in the spring are paid in June and those granted in the autumn in January into the bank account provided by the recipient.
Recipients of the grant will be notified by email that the grant has been granted before it is paid. The names of the grant recipients and the grant amounts are published on the Foundation’s website.
Monitoring the use of grants
Instructions to the recipient of the grant
No later than one year from the decision to grant the grant, the grant recipient must provide the Board of the Foundation with a detailed written report showing how the grant has been used, broken down by the purpose of use. In the case of multi-year funding, the grant recipient must submit an interim report on the progress of the project to the Foundation upon request.
A condition for processing a new grant application is that the use of previously awarded grants has been reported correctly. The Foundation’s representative ensures that the grants awarded have been reported in the manner required by the Foundation.