Funders

Our income comes mainly from lotteries in the Netherlands, received via the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, and also from partnerships, sponsorship and returns on investments. Our annual budget amounts to approximately 6.25 million euros.

The European Cultural Foundation thanks the following institutions for their longstanding support:

Prins Bernhard CultuurfondsLottoBank Giro Loterij

The Foundation would like to thank the following partners in supporting ECF initiatives in 2009:

Balkan Incentive Fund

  • Arts and Culture Network Programme, Foundation Open Society Institute, Budapest
  • Foundation Open Society Institute, Macedonia
  • Foundation Open Society Institute, Serbia
  • Kosova Foundation for Open Society
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Slovenia

Cultural Policy and Capacity Development

Kaliningrad project

  • European Union, IBPP-Culture Programme for Russia

Turkey and Moldova projects

  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Matra Project, The Netherlands

Cultural Policy Research Award

  • Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden

LabforCulture

  • Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden
  • Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, The Netherlands
  • Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Poland
  • Compagnia di San Paolo, Italy
  • Ministry of Culture, Spain
  • Fondazione Cariplo, Italy
  • Stiftelsen Framtidens Kultur, Sweden

Routes Princess Margriet Award for Cultural Diversity

  • Association of Charity Lotteries in the European Union (ACLEU)
  • Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands (for prize money awarded in 2010)
  • Rabobank Foundation, The Netherlands

StrangerFestival

Our international youth video project which grew into our Youth & Media programme

  • Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
  • Boeing
  • Federal Agency for Civic Education, Germany
  • UNICEF
  • VandenEnde Foundation, The Netherlands

STEPbeyond Travel Grants

  • Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation, Arts and Culture Network Programme

In 2010 ECF was awarded funds from Herbert-Batliner-Europapreis für Verdienste um den Kleinstaat, a foundation which works on issues surrounding and promoting culture, politics and history.