Handling of donated funds
Anyone who spends money wants to know that it is being used well. This applies especially to donations. ARCHEMED is a reputable aid organisation for children in need. With the help of voluntarily adopted codes and guidelines, we aim to demonstrate our trustworthiness.
ARCHEMED is a non-profit association registered with the Soest tax office, exempt from corporate income tax and trade tax, and authorised to issue donation receipts. This means that you can claim your donations as special expenses for tax purposes. You can find our current tax exemption notice here.
Incoming funds 2023
Our work is financed primarily through membership fees and donations from both public and private sources, as well as through grants from other associations and foundations. In 2023, the association’s incoming funds totalled €1,693k, thus remaining at the level of the previous two years.
- Donations: €1,007,838 59,5%
- Grants from other (non-profit) associations: €426,168 25,2%
- Other incoming funds: €259,855 15,3%
Total: €1,693,861
Use of funds 2023
ARCHEMED’s statutory purpose is to provide medical and humanitarian assistance to children in crisis areas and to build medical infrastructure as a prerequisite for this. In 2023, around 90% of all expenditure went to statutory programme work carried out by our volunteer project participants who travel on assignments. In total, almost 300 trips were carried out in 2023, about two thirds in the purely medical field and one third in the infrastructure field. Altogether, this amounts to just under 3,000 deployment days in the partner countries.
Expenditure on advertising and public relations as well as administration (primarily warehousing and logistics) together accounts for just under 10% of all payments made. If the economic (monetary) value of the volunteer services provided were taken into account and allocated to programme expenditure, the share of advertising and administrative costs within the expenditure structure would decrease even further.
- Programme expenditure: €1,811,513 90,1%
- Advertising & public relations: €95,072 4,7%
- Administration: €103,428 5,1%
Total: €2,010,013