public funding – aggregated data

Of this, they received € 618,56 million from direct and indirect budget users (ministries, municipalities, Financial administration of the Republic of Slovenia, public agencies and institutes), and € 29,58 million from the Foundation for Funding Disability and Humanitarian Organizations (FIHO) and the Foundation for Funding Sports Organisations of Slovenia (FŠO). Of all funds remitted by budget users, 61,07 % (€ 377,77 million) were allocated to non-governmental organisations to which the state has acknowledged to be acting in the public interest. In 2024, 15.434 non-governmental organisations were successful in obtaining public budgetary funds, which amounts to 55,15 % of all active non-governmental organisations.

Data on public funding of non-governmental organisations is based on the Treasury data on cash flows between the state (ministries, government departments, agencies, municipalities, public institutes, etc.) and non-governmental organisations (societies, institutes and institutions). The data also comprise data on society branches, on youth councils, and on religious communities having the humanitarian organisation status. The data exclude the associations, institutes and foundations that have been established by the Republic of Slovenia, municipalities or other public sector entities. 

The total amount of funds acquired by non-governmental organisations from public sources had been steadily increasing until 2011, when for the first time, a slight drop occurred in relation to the previous year. In the years 2018 to 2024, growth continued. The total amount of funds in 2024 increased by 5 % compared to the previous year and amounted to € 648,14 million. More than half of the increase in funds was contributed by increased funding from the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, namely payments to personal assistance providers (under the Personal Assistance Act, which entered into force in 2019). From this source, non-governmental organisations received funds in the amount of € 203,16 million in 2024 (i.e. 31,34 % of all public funds received in 2024). Compared to 2023, personal assistance providers received € 21,57 million more. An additional € 4 million was contributed by the Ministry of a Solidarity-Based Future for the provision of social care services.

In 2024 non-governmental organisations again acquired more from ministries than municipalities. Since 2003, the funds from ministries have been increasing, while they decreased between 2014 and 2016, and in 2017 they continued to grow again as before the fluctuations. More information on funding of NGOs from ministries can be found here, and from municipalities here.

In 2024 the largest recepients of public funds were the Institute for personal assistance of Pomurje (€ 16,74 million), the Brez Ovir private social institute (€ 12,47 million) and SONČEK –  Cerebral Palsy Association of Slovenia (€ 10,42 million). The lowest amounts were received by IPAK – Institute for Symbolic Analysis and Development of Information Technologies, Velenje (€ 1,53), MOUNTAIN RUNNING CLUB “GRMADA” (€ 2,04) and SPORTS AND RECREATION ASSOCIATION DR. PETRA DRŽAJA (€ 2,58). You can find the first 100 non-governmental organizations that received the most funds in 2024 here (in Slovenian).

According to data, the non-governmental organisations to which the state has acknowledged to be acting in the public interest, are highly successful in acquiring public funds. They comprise all organisations that obtained the decision to have been granted the status of operating in the public interest (e.g. societies with the status of a society in the public interest), or for which the law prescribes that their activity is in the public interest (e.g. charities). Although this refers only to 22,08 % of all non-governmental organisations, in 2024 they received 57,23 % of all funds remitted by ministries to non-governmental organisations (€ 200,43 million of 350,22 million). At the level of municipalities, the share is slightly higher, they received 73,66 % of all municipal public funds that were remitted to non-governmental organisations (€ 110,63 million of 150,18 million).

^{Source: KPK, AJPES, MNZ}