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Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

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Location
  
Stockholm, Sweden

Endowment
  
SEK m 39,035 (2012)

Founder
  
Knut Agathon Wallenberg

Method
  
Grants

Website
  
www.wallenberg.com/kaw

Founded
  
1917

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Focus
  
Grants to scientific research and education at Swedish universities, institutes and other academic units

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The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is a private foundation (Swedish: Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse), founded in 1917 by a donation of SEK 20 million by the chairman of the Stockholms Enskilda Bank, Knut Agathon Wallenberg and his wife Alice.

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The foundation is the largest of the Wallenberg foundations, and one of the largest Swedish funders of research. Since its founding the Foundation has disbursed approximately 16 Billion Kronor.

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Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation Wikipedia