Join us!
- Donation account:
filia
Account No: 300200100
GLS Gemeinschaftsbank eG Bochum
Bank Sought Code: 430 609 67
IBAN: DE11 4306 0967 0300 2001 00
BIC: GENODEM1GLS
- Donate by Credit Card
Apply for a Grant
Women’s organisations from all over the world can apply to filia for a fast grant from the Opportunity fund.
>>Funding Guideline and Application form Opportunity Fund
Financial Overview 2008
Donations and Endowment Contributions
We welcomed five new endowment contributors in 2008, bringing the number up to altogether 37.
On 31 December 2008 the Foundation assets as per § 4 of the statutes amounted to altogether € 15,676,926.12. In 2008 filia received endowment contributions totalling € 67,500.00 which joined the capital stock of the Foundation.
The donation proceeds in 2008 were made up as follows:
| General project donations | 144,698.79 € | |
| Earmarked donations | 7,744.00 € | |
| Sponsorship body (donations for building up the office) | 61,390.00 € | |
| Total donation proceeds in 2008 amounted to | 231,832.79 € |
The financial data shown here result from the cash accounting for 2008, which is audited by an independent certified public accountant every year.
Project support 2008
In 2008 filia supported 46 projects with total funding of € 265,505.
Note: Of this € 258,371 were in fact paid out in 2008. This sum is the key figure in the annual financial statements for 2008.
Altogether filia received 495 requests for support.
List of the 46 projects supported in 2008 (not including earmarks) broken down by programme area:
| Central/Eastern Europe | 17 | 115,820 € | 43,5 % |
| Germany | 18 | 48,540 € | 18,4 % |
| Global South | 5 | 60,845 € | 22,9 % |
| Networks and conferences | 4 | 33,500 € | 12,6 % |
| Urgent applications | 2 | 6,800 € | 2,6 % |
| Total | 46 | 265,505 € |
Specialised working groups at filia select the projects to be funded and submit them to the Foundation Council for a decision.
By comparison with the year 2007 (in which 40 projects were promoted with € 219,290), we were thus able to boost our funding amount by 21% in 2008 – and to increase the number of projects promoted as well.
Overview of project promotion since founding, 2001 - 2008
Amounts
| Total number of funded projects, 2001 to 2008 | 156 | |
| Total funding amount, not including earmarks | 826,331.47 € | |
| Earmarked donations | 1,350,557.21 € | |
| Total funding amount, including earmarks | 2,176,888.68 € |
Funding by programme area (number/amount)
| Central/Eastern Europe | 63 | 382,682.56 € | 46 % |
| Germany | 56 | 169,287.27 € | 21 % |
| Global South | 20 | 162,395.00 € | 19 % |
| Networks and conferences | 14 | 105,166.64 € | 13 % |
| Urgent applications | 2 | 6,800 € | 1 % |
A detailed list is set out in the project overview. Descriptions and results of specific activities are described under “Selected projects 2008”.
filia supports projects worldwide – budget overview
Project expenditures
Project expenditures – the purpose of filia – make up one segment. This includes above all actual project support and all directly connected costs such as evaluation, integration in international networks and bank charges.
Our project expenditures have risen by 29% compared with 2007, in particular because we were able to increase our direct project promotion by 21% in 2008.
PR and administration expenditures represent the second segment
These include steering current financing, administering the asset investments, preparing committee meetings, meetings of endowment contributors and public events, and technical resources in the filia office together with their maintenance and upkeep. This segment also covers fundraising, production of filia_news and the annual report, as well as costs of tax counselling and auditing that have risen considerably as a result of our growth.
The costs of publicity and administration have increased by 7% compared with 2007.
The following chart provides an overview of the relationship between the two segments
As Marjan Sax, one of the founders of Mama Cash, our “big sister” women’s foundation in the Netherlands, rightly said, spending money well costs money, especially when a lot of small sums are paid out to young women’s initiatives in their early stages. But it is this specifically that we consider to be particularly important and so it is what we do. Consequently comparisons with organisations that award vast sums to large-scale projects practiced in bookkeeping are inappropriate here. Despite this, we adhere to the DZI criteria (seal of approval for German donations) and compare our work with that of the preceding year.
We have succeeded in distinctly improving the relationship between project expenditures and advertising/administrative costs (2007 36% - 64%). We have become more professional and at the same time remain true to our target groups and our convictions.
