Carlsberg Foundation

As of 2011[update] it owned 30.3% of the shares in Carlsberg Group and controlled 74.2% of the voting power.

To finance its works the foundation received a portion of shares in Carlsberg Brewery.

J.C. Jacobsen's wish was to create a foundation with firm obligations to the natural sciences and direct responsibility for the running of a corporate enterprise.

In 1878 the foundation started to manage and fund the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Palace.

In 1882 after the death of J. C. Jacobsen the foundation inherited the remaining shares in the brewery.