Fundacja im. Stefana Batorego

Our Donors

We could carry out our activity in 2005 thanks to grants and donations made by Polish and foreign private and public institutions, commercial organizations and individual donors, including taxpayers who donated us 1% of their personal income tax.

Majority of our programs were financed from the grant of the Foundation of Open Society Institute, established by George Soros, American financier and philanthropist, the founder of a network of civic organizations active in more than 50 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the United States.

From a grant donated by Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe we continued planned for 2003–2006 Third Sector Program. From the Ford Foundation’s funds received in 2004 we ran Citizens in Action Program. Robert Bosch Foundation co-financed Polish-German and Polish-Russian-German cross-border programs.

Our activities in the sphere of international cooperation were co-financed in 2004 by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Canadian International Development Agency – Official Development Assistance in Central Europe CIDA-ODACE. The United States and Royal Netherlands Embassies contributed to the Anti-Corruption Program.

Our programs aimed to equalize educational opportunities of children and youth were supported by Levi Strauss & Co., the Commercial Union Poland insurance company, revenue from an endowed M Fund established by a Polish private donor and the donations made by individual donors abroad to Friends of Stefan Batory Foundation in the US and Stefan Batory Trust in the UK: Mrs and Mr Helen and Peter Maxwell and a private donor wishing to remain anonymous, whose donation was used to establish the K Fund.

As in the previous years, we ran the Commercial Union Charity Fund, a donor-advised fund of an insurance company we have been co-operating since 1996. In 2005 the CU Fund supported projects indicated by the donor in the area of health care and education. Also, a part of the income gained from investing the endowed M Fund was distributed, in line with the Founder’s will, to help disabled and ill children, as well as to support equal opportunities and health care projects. We continued to administer the Beata Pawlak Fund used, in line with the Founder’s last will, to finance an annual prize for the best article on other cultures, religions and civilizations.

In 2005 we continued our efforts to build the endowment that will constitute the basis for financing our activity in years to come. Our efforts aimed to create the endowment and expand our funding base were supported by the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

We thank all our donors from the bottom of our hearts!
With your help we can help others!