The purpose of the non-profit organization is to promote education, art, culture and sports, and to support non-profit institutions that are active in these areas. The organization may make grants of any kind to domestic and foreign non-profit institutions and, in particular, also donate its own holdings in domestic and foreign non-profit institutions. To achieve its purpose, the organization may acquire, hold and sell domestic and foreign participations. The organization may also establish branches in Switzerland and abroad, acquire, hold and sell profit-sharing certificates, provide management services, grant loans, acquire licenses, patents and other intangible assets, and acquire, encumber and sell real estate, as well as enter into any other business and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the organization or are directly or indirectly related to it.