The largest charities in the world. Charity in the world

About one and a half million charitable organizations and religious parishes are registered in the United States. Over 2% of this country's GDP is spent on donations. Moreover, 76% of this money from individuals. And a fairly significant part of charitable funds such public fund sends abroad.

Statistics Russian Federation much more modest. The lion's share of official donations is made legal entities, while from profits from financial and economic activities. There are no exact figures: estimates of annual payments range from 200 million to 1.5 billion US dollars. Many significant donations are also provided by banks.

What is a charitable organization?

According to the law, charitable organizations in Russia - non-profit organizations, which have specific legal forms ( public organizations, foundations and institutions). With regard to the taxation of charitable organizations, they are similar to other non-profit organizations (they are exempt from paying income tax on earmarked receipts and have a number of benefits that apply to both the beneficiary and the benefactor).

The birth of charity

The first charitable organizations in Rus' are considered to be monasteries, which Prince Vladimir ordered to engage in "contempt for the needy." Such a decree was issued in 988, and Ivan the Terrible created the first almshouse, which is the prototype of the modern charitable foundation. Funds for their activities were allocated from the state treasury. In addition, the wealthy members of society had an obligation to give alms. Peter the Great considered charity one of the important areas of public life.

After the revolution of 1917, Russian charitable organizations were abolished, and all their property was transferred to the people. In recent years, charity has been developing at an accelerated pace. Perhaps this is due to the fact that citizens have become more responsive to the problems of others.

Financing

A non-profit charitable organization is required to register with the authorities, submit activity reports, and reflect the funds raised and spent, which are not subject to taxation. She must use donations only for charitable purposes.

Donation is the most popular way to help. In the Russian Federation, a public assistance fund can be financed from five sources:

state aid;
grants, donations from individuals;
large business entities;
funds of municipal authorities and entrepreneurs;
family and private foundations are financed exclusively by private individuals.

Types of charitable organizations

In addition to the method of receiving funds, charitable organizations in Russia differ depending on the target audience:

charitable children's funds created to help various categories of children. They help orphans, the disabled, children from children who suffer from various diseases. The foundations are also involved in issuing gifted children;
funds to help the adult population, for example, people with various diseases, refugees, the disabled, and so on;
charitable organizations to help the elderly, veterans, the disabled and the elderly, hospice patients.

Have you decided to entrust your money to a charitable foundation, but are not sure that they will go to those in need? A variety of organizations operate in Russia, which are founded by both Russians and foreign investors. There are also charitable social programs commercial organizations. Below are the stable funds that carry out charitable activities. They have personal websites and regularly submit reports on the work done.

The main charitable organizations in Russia

SBOR (Union of Charitable Organizations of Russia) is 15 years of work, half a billion of attracted funds, dozens of successful projects and thousands of needy who received assistance from the fund. COLLECT is supported by famous actors, athletes, politicians.

Another large charitable organization is the National Charitable Foundation, which was founded in 1999 on the initiative of President V.V. Putin.

Initially, the fund was called the "National Military Fund" and provided all possible assistance to servicemen of various ministries and departments of Russia, their families, veterans and other persons. In 2002, the fund was categorized as an organization that provides one-time humanitarian assistance.

Multipurpose charities

One of the largest charitable foundations, the Union of Charitable Organizations of Russia, unites more than two hundred different target areas, including volunteer and public programs. Provides assistance to a wide category of citizens.
Also a large fund in the charity market is ROSSPAS. Helps people with serious illnesses. In the area of his attention are migrants, the disabled, orphans, large families and
There are funds that are carried out at once for several categories of those in need. For example, the national charitable organization "Dobro" provides assistance to families with many children, with various diseases, orphans and those who suffer from drug addiction and alcoholism.

Charities helping children

There are exclusively children's charitable organizations, such as "Nastenka", "Children of Mary", "Children's Houses", "Happy Hearts" and many others. They help children who find themselves in a difficult life situation: the loss of parents, orphans, the disabled, patients with serious illnesses, those who suffer from a congenital ailment.
The All-Russian Foundation "Charity - Russia" unites more than a million individual entrepreneurs. It plays various grants and scholarships among youth and children, helps nursing homes, hospices and hospitals with public funds, and provides assistance to ordinary citizens who apply.

Other funds

Serious charitable organization - "Life". Her the target audience- children with cancer, blood diseases. Donations buy drugs consumable, researches and diagnostics, courses of chemotherapy, operations are paid, it turns out to families.
Charitable organizations in Russia, founded by well-known people in the country: politicians, show business stars, businessmen. This is an additional influx of investors and those who wish to make a donation. The most famous fund in this category is "Give Life", which was established by popular actresses D. Korzun and Ch. Khamatova. Its purpose is to help those suffering from cancer.
Public charitable organizations that help the disabled, the elderly, veterans, people and patients of hospitals and hospices are the aid funds "Faith", "Old Age in Joy", "Collective of Caring People".
Large charitable organizations of the world also work in Russia: the Soros Foundation, the International Women's Organization, the AIDS Foundation and others.

Help is not easy, but very simple! This slogan on the main website of the COLLECTION is the best way to express readiness to accept donations from any caring person. After all, the sooner the funds are credited to the account of the charitable foundation, the more likely it is to save someone's life.

To help sick children, support sports organizations as well as theaters and museums. This year, the fund spent about 13.75 billion rubles on the implementation of various projects. Funding sources are Usmanov's personal funds, as well as money allocated by companies controlled by him.

The Sistema Charitable Foundation was established in 2003 for the charitable activities of the corporation of the same name and its subsidiaries. The main areas of activity of the foundation include science, culture and art, sports and social development. Every year, the fund spends about three billion rubles to support more than 50 projects. Funds for the fund come from commercial organizations, as well as from individuals.

The Russian Aid Fund (Rusfond) was established in 1996 by the Kommersant publishing house to support readers of the Kommersant newspaper in need of help. The founder and head of Rusfond is journalist Lev Ambinder. In the first half of this year, the fund managed to raise almost 607 million rubles, for last year- more than 1.7 billion. Rusfond specializes in helping seriously ill children, promoting the development of civil society, and introducing high medical technologies. - Individuals and organizations.

The Volnoe Delo Foundation was founded by Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska in 1998. The Foundation is engaged in supporting projects in the field of science, education, culture, territorial development, healthcare and animal protection. In 2014, for fund projects. According to Expert magazine, the fund is financed from the personal funds of Oleg Deripaska and deductions from the Basic Element group of companies.

The Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation, which became the first charitable organization in Russia with a regional work strategy, was established by businessman Mikhail Prokhorov in 2004. – systemic support of culture in Russian regions. For 10 years of work, the fund's budget has exceeded two billion rubles. There is no exact funding.

The Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation was established in 2010. The main activity of the foundation is the implementation of programs: "Older Generation", "Family and Children", "Sport", "Culture". For the first three years of operation, the fund's budget was $330.2 million. The main source of funding for the fund is the personal funds of the Timchenko Family

The Gift of Life Foundation was founded in 2006 by actresses Chulpan Khamatova and Dina Korzun. The scope of the fund is to help sick children. In 2015, the fund raised more than 326 million rubles. Funding sources are Russian, international and foreign organizations, individuals in Russia and abroad, as well as "stateless persons".

The Victoria Children's Charitable Foundation was founded in 2004 by Nikolai Tsvetkov, President of the Uralsib Corporation. The Foundation specializes in helping children left without parental care and who find themselves in a difficult life situation. Expenses for charitable programs in 2013 amounted to more than 184 million rubles. There are no more recent data. According to the data for 2013, the sources of financing are also personal funds of Nikolai Tsvetkov, income from endowment, fundraising, funds of Uralsib Bank.

Many businessmen and millionaires are trying to bring good to this world by organizing all kinds of charitable foundations and organizations. An interesting fact is that not only businessmen can be called charitable activities and philanthropists, but also many artists, actors and singers who generously share their earned money, and also try to open their own funds, for example, the American singer Beyoncé supports women who have undergone violence, or Angelina Jolie, Kylie Minogue and others.

It is worth noting that the stars themselves do not carry out the implementation of the fund's charitable projects, they are supported by specialists and simple people, you can read more on the official portals of the funds.

Until recently, world statistics showed that the largest charitable organizations in the world were concentrated in the United States of America, according to 2013, the total amount allocated by American funds could reach thirty billion US dollars. But that was before the opening of the European Foundation Center, which now houses about four hundred huge charitable foundations from all over Europe.

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute Foundation was founded in 1953 by tycoon Howard Hughes, today the budget of the organization has exceeded $ 19 billion, in most cases the foundation directs cash in areas such as molecular biology, immunology and genetics.

In 1936, another charitable organization called the Ford Foundation was founded, its founder was the son of the legendary Henry Ford, Edsel Ford. The value of the organization's assets is equal to eleven billion US dollars. The modern foundation no longer belongs to the famous family, and even has nothing to do with the company of the same name, the organization fights against serious diseases such as AIDS, finances educational programs, and helps in the economic reform of developing countries around the world.

If we talk about celebrities and their philanthropy, Angelina Jolie, who decided to devote herself to philanthropy in 2001, should be highlighted. This year, she saw how poor the citizens of Cambodia live, so she decided to travel to third world countries. After that, she adopted Maddox, and brought the child from Cambodia to the United States of America. Now there are several funds of the actress that are helping children in this country, in addition, they work with people who have become victims of man-made disasters.

Famous people from Russia try to keep up with their Western counterparts, for example, the famous model Natalia Vodianova. She created a foundation called Naked Heart, which helps build playgrounds for kids in Russia.

To help sick children, support sports organizations, as well as theaters and museums. This year, the fund spent about 13.75 billion rubles on the implementation of various projects. Funding sources are Usmanov's personal funds, as well as money allocated by companies controlled by him.

The Sistema Charitable Foundation was established in 2003 for the charitable activities of the corporation of the same name and its subsidiaries. The foundation's main areas of activity include science, culture and the arts, sports and social development. Every year, the fund spends about three billion rubles to support more than 50 projects. Funds for the fund come from commercial organizations, as well as from individuals.

The Russian Aid Fund (Rusfond) was established in 1996 by the Kommersant publishing house to support readers of the Kommersant newspaper in need of help. The founder and head of Rusfond is journalist Lev Ambinder. For the first half of this year, the fund managed to raise almost 607 million rubles, last year - more than 1.7 billion. Rusfond specializes in helping seriously ill children, promoting the development of civil society, and introducing high medical technologies. - Individuals and organizations.

The Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation, which became the first charitable organization in Russia with a regional work strategy, was established by businessman Mikhail Prokhorov in 2004. — systemic support of culture in the Russian regions. For 10 years of work, the fund's budget has exceeded two billion rubles. There is no exact funding.

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Until recently, the largest charitable organizations in the world were concentrated exclusively in the United States. According to 2013 data, the annual amount of funds provided by US funds reached $30 billion.

This was before the emergence and development of the European Foundation Center, which this moment unites more than 400 largest charitable foundations in Europe. The statistics collected by the center in 2010 confirmed the effective results of European philanthropists:

There are more than 110,000 charitable organizations in Europe;
the funds employ about 1 million employees;
annually about 100 billion euros are allocated to charity in Europe.
Focusing on the amount invested in charity, we can name the three largest funds in the world according to 2013 data. Among them: the Dutch Stichting INGKA Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust from the UK.

Stichting INGKA Foundation

The fund's assets are estimated at 36 billion dollars, and at the moment it is the largest charitable organization in the world. Its founder is the founder and owner of IKEA, Swedish businessman Ingvar Kamprad, who owns 207 branches of the company around the world.

The Foundation was established in 1982 primarily to support modern solutions and development of the branch of architecture and interior design. At the same time, a significant part of the fund's assets is spent not on charity, but on investing in projects. The amount of charitable assistance is about 10 million dollars annually.

Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation

The fund's assets are more than 33 billion dollars. The organization was founded by Microsoft owner Bill Gates together with close people - his wife and father (later the founders expanded). Although the date of creation is relatively recent - 1994 - the organization almost immediately outstripped the oldest charitable foundations in the world in terms of the amount of capital invested in charity.

The fund was created primarily to help the poor, finance the search for new methods of dealing with serious diseases, support programs in the field of health and education. Every year, the foundation spends almost $2 billion on charity.

The fund's assets amount to more than 22 billion dollars. The London-based charity was founded in 1936 in memory of Henry Wellcome, the pharmaceutical magnate. The main purpose of the fund is to finance research activities aimed at ensuring the protection of human life, as well as animals.

This fund has practically put on professional basis charity in Europe, becoming the largest and most authoritative. The organization offers a large number of grants for scientific research, educational programs for medical professionals.

A little about charity in Europe

European funds finance a variety of industries - from science and medicine to help vulnerable people. In the last 15 years, the number of funds and the amount allocated to charity have increased several times. According to statistics, every month a new fund is created in Europe. Germany is the leader in this direction.

One of the most promising areas of charity is the allocation of funds for international programs(in particular, those devoted to internationalization).

An important feature of the philanthropic movement in Europe is the cooperative work of foundations - the association individual organizations in order to strengthen positions, exchange experience, expand cooperation with business structures and government organizations. It is this position that makes it possible to popularize charitable organizations in the world and solve global international problems.

Another trend is the division of funds into specialized funds operating in separate sectors. As an example, Europeans cite DAFNE (European Network of Donor Associations), which includes 22 associations of charitable organizations. The network already has its own standards of work, and management is built on the principles of self-regulation.

The creation of such global structures not only makes philanthropy much more effective, but also influences the state social policy: in particular, some organizations acted as lobbyists for bills submitted by public organizations.

The largest number of branches

We talked about the three largest philanthropic organizations on the planet - but these are far from all the charitable foundations in the world that donate billions of dollars to social causes. It is worth mentioning the organization, whose representative offices operate in 46 countries - the charitable foundation United Way Worldwide, whose budget exceeded 5 billion dollars. The organization employs about 3 million volunteers, almost 10 million people donate money to charity.

At the moment it is not the largest, but remains the most developed - the organization was founded in the United States in 1887, over the years it has become a global international non-profit non-governmental structure. At the moment, the organization, which includes two funds (United Way of America, as well as United Way), works in three directions:

Education (reducing the number of children dropping out of school);

Income (assistance to large and low-income families);

Health (increase in the number of healthy population by 1%).

Among the world's leading philanthropists

Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a foundation founded by tycoon Howard Hughes in 1953. The organization's current budget exceeds $19 billion. The main areas of charity are funding research in the field of molecular biology, immunology, and genetics.

The Ford Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1936 by Edsel Ford, son of the legendary Henry Ford. The value of the fund's assets exceeds $11 billion. Modern organization has nothing to do with the Ford family or the company of the same name. Main activities: financing programs to combat serious diseases (in particular, AIDS), educational programs, assistance in the economic reform of developing countries.

Charity in the world: the largest foundations in Europe and Asia

The Robert Bosch Foundation is a foundation founded in 1969 in Germany. The budget of the organization is about 7 billion dollars. The founder of the foundation is Robert Bosch. The main capital of the organization is the shares of the company of the same name (about 92%). Charity areas: raising the level of education, funding historical research, grants for medical activity, humanitarian aid.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation is an organization founded in the UAE in 2007 with a budget of about $10 billion. The leading activities are the dissemination of knowledge about the Arab history of culture, investment in the construction and development of cultural projects in Dubai.