The Foundation has nine City Funds, located across Finland. The Funds support projects that strengthen local identities and bring people together. Dedicated Funds provide diverse support for Finnish science, art, sports, and cultural life.
City Funds
The Kordelin Foundation has nine City Funds around Finland. The City Funds promote local arts and cultural life: through grants, they support projects that advance the common good, foster dialogue, and create new forms of activities and collaboration.
The City Fund grants are available and can be applied for in every other year, next time from 15 to 31 January 2026. More information about the available grants: Call for Applications: City Fund Grants.
The Huittinen Fund was established in 1995, and its purpose is to promote the art and cultural life of Huittinen as well as to support the periodically organized national “Hullu Puhallus” wind instrument competition. The fund awards grants and prizes to distinguished contributors.
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Administrative secretary Leena Hakanen
The Hyvinkää Fund was established in 1968, and its purpose is to promote and support performing and creative arts practiced in the city of Hyvinkää, as well as to enhance the city with artworks. The fund awards cultural prizes to distinguished contributors.
Dedicated Funds
The foundation’s eight Dedicated Funds provide diverse support for Finnish science, art, sports, and cultural life. The Funds have been established through donations and bequests received by the foundation – each fund has its own specific purpose.
Eino Lainio Fund was established when the EKLA Foundation merged with the Kordelin Foundation. Its purpose is to support the presentation, planning, or publication of artistic or scientific works concerning Finland and the Finnic peoples.
The fund fulfills its purpose by awarding grants or otherwise promoting the fund’s objectives, as well as by maintaining the collection of illustrations and paintings from Eino Lainio’s books.
The fund was established in 2019 when the Finnish Fund for Musical Arts (Suomen Säveltaiteen Tukisäätiö) merged with the Alfred Kordelin Foundation. Its purpose is to support and promote Finnish musical arts. The fund fulfills its purpose by awarding grants and prizes to music educators, practitioners of musicology and music research, representatives of creative and performing musical arts, as well as individuals who have otherwise made particularly meritorious contributions to Finnish musical life.
The distribution of grants from the Finnish Fund for Musical Arts is combined with the Alfred Kordelin Foundation’s August grant application round. Grants from the Finnish Fund for Musical Arts are applied for using the same application form and under the same conditions as the foundation’s music grants: music grants are available in odd-numbered years, next in 2027. Applicants do not need to specifically indicate on the form that they are applying for a grant from the Finnish Fund for Musical Arts. Recommendations for grant and prize recipients are made by the fund’s committee to the Board of the Alfred Kordelin Foundation.
The Gust. Komppa Fund was established in 2000, and its purpose is to support chemistry education and research, promote the dissemination of chemical research results and applications, foster domestic and international collaboration in chemistry, support work on chemical terminology, and advance research on the history of chemistry as well as museum and exhibition activities in the field.
The fund periodically awards the Jaakko Paasivirta Prize. The prize was established in 2017 and may be awarded to an individual or organization that has made significant and meritorious contributions to advancing research in Professor Jaakko Paasivirta’s fields, namely NMR spectroscopy or studies on environmental pollutants. The prize is valued at 2,000 euros.
Jaakko Paasivirta (1931–2011) was a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Jyväskylä and a pioneer of NMR spectroscopy in Finland. The initial capital for the named fund was raised by the Central Finland Chemists’ Society (Keski-Suomen Kemistiseura ry) between 2011 and 2017.
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Executive Director of the Finnish Chemical Society Sari Vihavainen
The Helinä Wähä Fund was established in 2015 through a testamentary donation. Helinä Wähä (1925–2013) was a painter whose works are held in numerous public and private collections. The purpose of the fund is to support research on children with heart disease.
The Jaakko Kolmonen Fund of the Alfred Kordelin Foundation was established in 2011, and its purpose is to support Finnish food culture by awarding prizes to distinguished contributors. The fund, named after Chef Jaakko Kokki Kolmonen (1941–2016), is based on commemorative gifts given for Jaakko Kolmonen’s 50th, 60th, and 70th birthdays.
The Kordelin Jaakko Kolmonen Food Culture Awards are granted annually in recognition of contributions to promoting Finnish food culture. The awards are valued at 5,000 euros each. They may be given to an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to Finnish cuisine and food production, the production and use of high-quality domestic ingredients, culinary traditions, Finnish food culture, and the visibility of these.
The 100th Anniversary Fund of TSV (the Council of Finnish Academies) supports promoting the significance of Finnish scientific results both domestically and internationally, increasing awareness of foreign science and its results in Finland, and organizing various scientific events in Finland. The fund was established in 1999 in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Council of Finnish Academies (TSV).
The fund awards the TSV Science Prize every other year. More information about the prize: TSV Science Prize.
Urheilun Tuki Fund was established in 1981. The fund is based on an earlier fund founded in 1919 to promote sports and healthcare in Finland, to which agricultural counselor Alfred Kordelin had allocated the principal in his will.
The fund annually awards recognition prizes to instructors and coaches working with children and youth. The Alfred Kordelin Foundation’s Children and Youth Coach Award is given in recognition of long-term and selfless voluntary work in guiding and coaching young people in sports. Read more: Children and Youth Coach Award.
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Executive Director of the Finnish Coaches Association (Suomen Valmentajat ry) Sari Tuunainen
Most of the dedicated funds award prizes within their respective fields. In addition, the Gust. Komppa Fund awards grants in the field of chemistry; these grants can be applied for annually between 15 and 31 January. More information about the grants: Call for Applications: Dedicated Fund Grants