The corpus stays untouched — and the cause lives on in perpetuity.

• You have a cause — a chair, a museum, a programme — that you wish to fund not once but in perpetuity.
• You want the corpus to stay untouched, with only its income at work.
• You want the cause to keep receiving support even once you are no longer here.

What the House does

The House builds a purpose-capital fund in which the principal is preserved and only the income goes to the chosen cause. So the chosen endeavour — a chair, a museum, a programme — is funded in perpetuity and outlives the donor. The House builds the fund itself, its spending policy and its governance so that the corpus stays untouched across generations.

• Choosing the jurisdiction and the form of the purpose-capital fund for the chosen cause.
• Establishing the fund and fixing the cause — a chair, a museum, a programme — in its instruments.
• A spending policy: what counts as corpus, what as income, and how much goes to the cause.
• Setting the fund’s governance and reporting under a single mandate of the House.
• Binding the endowment to the rest of the family’s structure — the foundation, the succession, the constitution.

What you get: an established purpose-capital fund with the cause fixed · a spending policy (what is corpus, what is income, how much goes to the cause) · governance and reporting set under the mandate of the House · a binding to the family structure

Why this way and not another

• A one-off gift covers the cause once, and the next year it stands without footing again.
• Without a spending rule the principal is gradually eaten away and the fund runs dry.
• Support for the cause rests on your personal involvement and ends along with it.
• There is no structure to separate corpus from income and carry it across the generations.

What worries you — and the House’s answer

• “The capital will be eaten away in time, and the fund will run dry.” — The spending policy is fixed: only the income goes to the cause, the corpus stays untouched by rule, not by goodwill.
• “After me the direction will be changed, and the money will go astray.” — The cause is fixed in the fund’s constitutive instruments, and governance is set to hold it.
• “Running the endowment will fall on the family.” — The fund’s governance and reporting are carried by the House under mandate, not by a staff the family must hire.

Where this leads

The chosen cause gains a footing in perpetuity: the corpus holds untouched, and its income goes year after year to the chair, the museum or the programme. Support ceases to depend on one-off gifts and on your personal involvement. And once you are no longer here, the endeavour goes on being funded — out of the capital you kept untouched for precisely that.