Evonik Stiftung

Name

Evonik Stiftung

Legal name

Evonik Industries AG

Website

https://evonik-stiftung.de

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Evonik Stiftung is a private nonprofit based in Essen, Germany, that provides scholarships and funds educational, scientific, and charitable projects for students, researchers, institutions, and charitable initiatives. Program scale and financial results are not disclosed.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Non-Profit Foundation and Educational Funding

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Grantmaking and Giving Services (8132)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Scholarship & Fellowship Foundations and Trusts (EDADAHAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Education Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAK), Community Foundations (BPAGAKAB)

Keywords

• Scholarship programs
• Educational grants
• Scientific research funding
• Charitable project funding
• Non-profit foundation

Headquarters

HQ city

Essen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices47 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Revenue model

1. Specialty Chemicals Sales: Sale of specialty chemicals across multiple business lines including Active Oxygens, Animal Nutrition, Care Solutions, Catalysts, Coating Additives, Health Care, High Performance Polymers, and Oil Additives. Products are sold directly to industrial customers with technical support and application services.
2. Technology Licensing: Licensing of proprietary technologies such as HPPO (hydrogen peroxide to propylene oxide) and other manufacturing processes to third-party producers, generating royalty income.
3. Contract Manufacturing Services: Drug substance contract manufacturing at facilities like the Lafayette (Tippecanoe), Indiana site, offering pharmaceutical production services with significant investment (US$100 million) in modernizing manufacturing capabilities.
4. Technical Application Services: Engineering services and technical application support for customers implementing hydrogen peroxide and other chemical solutions, including storage, handling, and safety consultation.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Evonik Stiftung is a non-profit foundation that provides scholarships to individual recipients and grants to support educational, scientific, and charitable projects. The foundation operates from Essen, Germany and channels resources to qualifying beneficiaries in line with its philanthropic mission.

Product overview

Evonik is a specialty chemicals company offering a diverse portfolio of products and solutions across multiple business lines. The portfolio includes: Active Oxygens (Hydrogen Peroxide, Peracetic Acid, Persulfates, Calcium Peroxide) for industrial chemical processes, disinfection, and environmental applications; Health Care solutions including EUDRAGIT polymers for pharmaceutical drug delivery and lipid nanoparticles for mRNA therapies; Animal Nutrition products centered on MetAMINO (DL-methionine) for feed additives; Environmental technologies such as SEPURAN Green membranes for biogas processing and AEROXIDE additives for battery applications; Coating Additives, High Performance Polymers, Oil Additives including immersion cooling fluids; and specialty methacrylates under the VISIOMER brand. The company also offers HP+ Technologies (HPPO/HPPG) for sustainable chemical production. Services include engineering support, technical application services, and analytical services like AMINOLab. This is a multi-category portfolio of specialty chemical products, technologies, and application services rather than a unified software platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Scholarship Programs Financial scholarships awarded to individual recipients to support their educational advancement, in line with the foundation's philanthropic mission.
• Educational, Scientific, and Charitable Project Grants Grant funding provided by the foundation to qualifying organizations and projects in the fields of education, science, and charitable work.

Quantifiable outcome

• Fully integrated global methionine production network with on-site methyl mercaptan production in Europe, Asia, and Americas
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• FuhuacoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing Partner · 30 July 2026Licensed hydrogen peroxide mega plant in Leshan, Sichuan Province, China. Fuhua operates the plant under Evonik's licensing technology. This extends Evonik's hydrogen peroxide production footprint through technology licensing to partners.
• evitriacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 July 2026Partnership with global antibody expression specialist evitria to offer a ready-to-use transient protein expression kit based on CHO cells for biopharmaceutical research and development. Designed to enable faster, more reliable, and scalable protein production, the kit addresses key challenges in transient protein expression workflows.
• TotalEnergiescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with TotalEnergies to develop safer and more environmentally friendly silane-based protective coating for glass containers. Using silanes as foundation, the companies developed an alternative to conventional coating methods for scratch-resistance, durability, and smoothness of bottles and jars.
• InVitriacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with InVitria to provide recombinant human serum albumin designed for consistency, purity, and supply security, helping biopharma manufacturers de-risk cell therapy production.
• AMSilkminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAMSilk has developed a process that enables bacteria to produce spider silk proteins. Evonik innovation magazine features this partnership in sustainable materials development.

Scale indicators5 records

Direct peers

• Körber Foundation: Hamburg-based German foundation funding science, education, and international affairs. Comparable as a German foundation with overlapping education and science programs.
• Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes: Germany's largest and most prestigious scholarship foundation supporting highly talented students across disciplines. Comparable as a German scholarship foundation with a similar education-grantmaking focus.
• Fritz Thyssen Foundation: Cologne-based German foundation funding science and scientific education. Comparable as a German corporate-linked foundation supporting education and research.
• Volkswagen Foundation: Hannover-based corporate foundation funding research and science in Germany. Comparable as an industry-sponsored grantmaking foundation with education and science programs.
• Robert Bosch Foundation: Corporate foundation of Robert Bosch GmbH funding education, science, health, and social causes. Comparable as a German corporate foundation with multi-domain education/science/charitable programs.
• Bayer Foundation: Corporate foundation of Bayer AG supporting science education and research. Comparable as a German industry-linked foundation funding education and science.

Regional players

• Ernst von Siemens Foundation: Foundation supporting music and arts as well as young scientists in German-speaking countries. Comparable as a German foundation funding both cultural/charitable and scientific projects.

Others

• Evonik Industries AG: Parent corporate sponsor of Evonik Stiftung and a publicly listed specialty chemicals company headquartered in Essen. Comparable as the corporate entity whose financial health directly underwrites the foundation's grantmaking capacity.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/EvonikIndustries
• Facebookfacebook.com/Evonik
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/evonik
• Instagraminstagram.com/evonikofficial
• TikToktiktok.com/@evonikofficial

Compliance3 records

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Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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