President: Aymani Kadyrova (September 2004-date)
Vice president: Khava Isayeva (March 2024-date)
Founders: Aymani Kadyrova, Khalid Vaykhanov, Abusupyan Daayev, Shamkhan Denilkhanov, Ruslan Yakhayayev, Ramzan Kadyrov.

Financing

Information on the Foundation’s funding is not publicly available. In 2011, Kadyrov famously responded to a journalist’s question about where Chechnya gets its money, he answered “from Allah. I don’t know. Money is found somewhere” (RBC, 2011). The Foundation’s accounts for 2012 and 2013 declared revenues of RUB 916 mn and RUB 1.45 bn, but Antikor noted in 2015 that there are no reports from the Foundation in the Ministry of Justice’s database — despite a legal requirement for non-commercial organisations with a revenue greater than RUB 3 mn (Antikor, 2015).

Economist Natalya Zubarevich noted that the Foundation’s funding is not linked to the republic’s budget revenues from the federal centre, and instead is provided by donations from Chechen businesses across Russia. Chechen opposition Telegram channel NIYSO, meanwhile, has claimed that state employees are forced to donate part of their salaries to the Foundation, with one channel administrator reporting that the scale of the “donations” varies according to particular PR campaigns or regime requirements. Human rights activists and Caucasian Knot have reported similar deductions from salaries over many years. The NIYSO administrator also reported that Chechen entrepreneurs are forced to donate (Caucasian Knot, 2025).

Involvement in Russia’s war on Ukraine

In June 2025, Chechen Prime Minister Magomed Daudov reported that the Foundation had spent more than RUB 40 bn supporting Russia’s war on Ukraine, purchasing 2,500 vehicles, nearly 13,000 quadrocopters, almost 33,000 communication devices, and more than 112,000 military uniforms. It also provided more than 27,000 tonnes of “humanitarian aid” (Caucasian Knot, 2025).