Donations and scholarships granted in 2005 totalled EUR 840,959.34. Donations were granted to the following causes:

University of Tampere, five-year professorship in North American studies EUR 500,000

World Childhood Foundation USD 200,000.

Reconstruction of the port icebreaker S/S Turso EUR 75,000

Tero Saarinen Company EUR 25,000.

Christine and Göran Schildt Foundation EUR 20,000

The Disabled War Veterans’ Association of Finland, the Eljas Erkko Fund EUR 10,000

Ballet dancer Minna Tervamäki’s project EUR 8,000

Tanja Hautala,  doctorate student in education EUR 20,000

Kaarina Winter, doctorate student in education EUR 20,000