In 2023, non-governmental organisations received € 139,09 million from municipalities, which is 8.39 % or € 10.68 million more than previous year. This means 120,63 % or about € 75.5 million more than in 2003 and 50.6 % or about € 46.39 million more than in 2009.
As a general rule, the total amount of municipal funding of non-governmental organisations has been growing for the past ten years. 2011, 2013 and 2020 were the only exceptions when drops occurred relative to the preceding years. Throughout the period 2003-2018, non-governmental organisations received more public funds by municipalities than they did by ministries. From 2019 onwards, the funds from ministries surpassed those of municipalities.
Municipalities that allocated the highest amounts of funds to non-governmental organisations are the City of Ljubljana (€ 17,23 million), followed by City of Maribor (€ 6,94 million), City of Kranj (€ 3,03 million), City of Koper (€ 2,68 million) and City of Celje(€ 2,58 million). In general, urban municipalities are at the forefront of municipal funding of NGOs. In 2023, 12 urban municipalities (of the total of 213 Slovenian municipalities) remitted to non-governmental organisations a combined share of 32,66 % of all municipal funds for NGOs (which is € 45,1 million of € 139,09 million).
In 2023, 11.652 non-governmental organisations recieved funds from municipalities, which amounts to 41,06 % of all active non-governmental organisations.