On 22 May 2026, the Natro Promise Foundation was formally registered as a foundation in the Dubai International Financial Centre, under the DIFC Foundations Law (DIFC Law No. 3 of 2018). With that registration, a promise that has lived for years as one man’s personal giving became a permanent institution.
From personal promise to institution
Long before this foundation existed, David Natroshvili was funding students. He gave back to Kutztown University, the alma mater whose scholarship first carried him from Georgia to the world; he supported Georgian students privately, one by one, as his own success grew. That giving was real — but personal generosity, however sustained, ends with the person. It depends on one individual’s attention, one lifetime, one set of decisions made alone.
A foundation is the opposite of that. It has legal personality of its own, separate from its founder. It has a charter and by-laws that bind it to its purpose. It has a board that decides collectively, and a governance framework that will outlive every person currently involved. Registration is the moment a promise stops being a habit and becomes a structure.
Why DIFC
A scholar who signs an agreement with this foundation is not relying on goodwill. They are protected by one of the strongest legal frameworks in the world.
The Dubai International Financial Centre was chosen deliberately. It is an independent, common-law jurisdiction with its own courts and its own regulator — the legal home of choice for global financial institutions across the region, and one of the most respected and trusted jurisdictions anywhere. The DIFC Foundations Law provides exactly the instrument a serious philanthropic promise needs: a structure with separate legal personality, perpetual existence, and enforceable governance.
For our scholars, this is not legal trivia. It means the funding agreement they sign is enforceable in a world-class court system. It means the foundation’s commitments are backed by an institution answerable to a regulator, not by one person’s word. The foundation’s brand rests on the harmony of two standards of excellence — the DIFC’s institutional rigour and its founder’s organisational vision — and the registration is where the first of those standards formally took hold.
What happens now
With registration complete, the foundation’s work begins in earnest: applications for the inaugural 2026 cohort are open, the board and governance framework are in place, and the first scholarships will be awarded against the published criteria — Master’s degree studies in STEM, at the world’s leading universities, for Georgia’s most gifted students.
Every future milestone on this page — every scholar announced, every degree completed — will trace back to this one. The promise now has an address.