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Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Busy address KBO
20 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
FONDS DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE-FNRS from Brussel, company number BE0885324344, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -5.9 million after tax. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -3.9 million to € -5.9 million. The company made a loss. The company holds a healthy buffer. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 6, 2026.
€ 134.8 million
▼ 4% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -5.9 million
▼ 52 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 167 million
▼ 4% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
People and assets in 2025
2,180.8
▲ 36.8 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 166.9 million
▲ 7% vs 2024
€ 76,500 per full-time equivalent. Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 1.8 million
▼ 54% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year. Pays suppliers within 64 days on average.
€ 26.6 million
▲ 5% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
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| Profit after taxes | € -4,620,020 | € 4,049,282 | € -3,899,846 | € -5,931,177 | ▼ € 2 million |
| Equity | € 140,581,621 | € 144,630,904 | € 140,731,058 | € 134,799,881 | ▼ 4% |
| Total debts | € 207,596,192 | € 239,882,625 | € 259,076,620 | € 276,630,818 | ▲ 7% |
| Cash | € 240,159,792 | € 307,924,751 | € 174,780,740 | € 166,960,160 | ▼ 4% |
| Land & buildings | € 1,404,688 | € 1,390,508 | € 2,474,736 | € 5,188,555 | ▲ 110% |
| Retained profit | € 119,791,938 | € 123,841,221 | € 119,941,375 | € 114,010,198 | ▼ 5% |
| Balance sheet total | € 388,835,962 | € 425,404,862 | € 440,664,414 | € 446,529,086 | ▲ 1% |
| Employees (FTE) | 1,949 | 2,021.5 | 2,144 | 2,180.8 | ▲ 36.8 |
Key figures of FONDS DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE-FNRS, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 31 July 2027.
What happened to FONDS DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE-FNRS?
What happened at FONDS DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE-FNRS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 5.9 million. Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Brussel. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 4.6 million loss in 2022 to € 5.9 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 1,841 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2023, with € 4 million profit.
Pays suppliers within 64 days on average.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Egmontstraat 5
1000 Brussel
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- Company number
- 0885.324.344
- VAT number
- BE 0885.324.344
- Registered office
- Egmontstraat 5, 1000 Brussel
- Names & denominations
- FONDS DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE-FNRS · FRS-FNRS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Public-interest foundation
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 29 November 2006
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 3 Aug 2026
- Contact
- frs-fnrs.be
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