This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
The Kuwait Awqaf Public Foundation (KAPF) was established by Amiri Decree No. 257 of 1993 as an independent public foundation to call for waqf and to manage the investment of endowment assets in Kuwait. Its independence is structural rather than incidental: KAPF is distinct from the cabinet-level Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, which handles mosques, fatwas and Hajj administration rather than endowment investment.
That division of labour, one body calling for and investing endowments, a separate ministry running mosques and religious administration, means Kuwait runs its waqf investment function outside the ordinary ministerial structure most neighbouring states use for the same task. KAPF directs the waqf revenue it generates toward development funds spanning education, relief and social welfare projects both domestically and abroad.
Operating as a public authority under Kuwaiti government oversight rather than as a private charitable trust, KAPF occupies a position between a government ministry and an independent endowment manager, answerable to the state while running its investment function apart from the ministry that otherwise governs Kuwait's religious affairs.