Information Services of Register of Foundations

Information from the Register of Foundations is available both on the Business Information System (BIS) and in our Virre Information Service.

• Basic details can be browsed free of charge on BIS. You can use the foundation’s name or Business ID as a search criterion.
• Documents such as extracts from the Register of Foundations, various certificates, financial statements, statistics, and selections are easily and quickly accessible on Virre. See what our Virre Information Service has to offer.
  
  

You can also order copies of documents enclosed with applications or notifications to the Register of Foundations. However, some documents, for example, balance sheet specifications enclosed with financial statements, are not publicly available.




Among other things, an extract from the Register of the Foundations includes:

• Foundation’s name, Business ID, place of registered office, and postal address
• Date of grant of establishment, and date of confirmation of by-laws
• Purpose of foundation
• Board of Trustees, and authorised signatories

For information about foundations which award grants, see the website of the Council of Finnish Foundations: http://www.saatiopalvelu.fi/fi/Saatiot_verkossa/.

Telephone services

You can also request or order information from the Register of Foundations by ringing +358 (0)9 6939 5959.

For legal advice, ring +358 (0)9 6939 5994.