GERMANY NGO FUNDING MAP

Public Interest Data Project

What this dataset is

A compiled dataset from 13 official public primary sources documenting German public funding flows to NGOs. Each record has a confidence_level (verified/estimated/inferred) and a traceable source_url. This dataset documents funding flows — it does not attribute conduct or intent to any organization.

Acceptable use

Journalism, academic research, public policy analysis
Personal, educational, and non-profit use
Reproduction with attribution to primary sources

Prohibited use

Attributing criminal, fraudulent, or immoral conduct to any organization based solely on this dataset
Presenting data as “exclusive” when the primary source is publicly available
Combining with personal data without appropriate legal basis

Key limitations

92% of OECD CRS records use generic channel names — no individual organization names. This is a documented finding about Germany's reporting architecture, not a data error.
Political foundations (~€700M/year): federal funding known, redistribution to local partners is opaque
Churches (Caritas/Diakonie): ~€1.5B/year redistribution is private, zero coverage
13 of 16 German states have no public subsidy database

License

CC BY-SA 4.0 — You must cite primary sources for any specific claims. Derivative datasets must use the same license.

Pressekodex note

This dataset provides what responsible data journalism requires: traceable primary sources, documented limitations, confidence levels per record, and factual restraint. Statistical patterns are documented for further investigation, never as accusations.

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BUDGET GALAXY

Explore how nations spend. Every ministry, every department, every dollar, euro and pound — visualized.

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Germany

€502B · 2025

11 years · 26 ministries

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United States

$12.7T · 2024

111 agencies

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France

€823B · 2025

20 ministères

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United Kingdom

£1,130B · 2024

22 departments

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Year Ministry

Countries ranked by total German ODA via NGOs (OECD CRS, 2018-2023). Click column headers to sort. Click a country to open details. Amounts include flows where the recipient is not individually identified.

Rank ▲	Country ▲	Records ▲	Organizations ▲	Total Funding ▲	Top NGO	Sources ▲

Top 20 Countries by Records

Regional Distribution

Year Ministry Country Sector Bundesland Org Type Confidence Min Amount Search Orgs 📥 Export CSV

Search by organization name, program, intermediary, topic, or country. Combine filters and click column headers to sort. Select 'Private sector' in org type to find for-profit companies. Export filtered results as CSV.

Funding by Ministry

Yearly Trend

Organizations

Data Sources

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The EU publishes name, address, and exact amount for every beneficiary. Germany reports equivalent flows as geographic aggregates without naming recipients. This documents a structural difference in reporting standards.

Transparency Comparison: EU vs Germany

How the EU tracks every euro to a named beneficiary — while Germany reports 92% as anonymous flows

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Program

Germany channels funds to NGOs through named programs managed by specific ministries. Select a program to see its beneficiaries, amounts, and source links.

About Budget Galaxy

A reference tool for public spending across four countries. Updated April 2026.

Methodology

Budget Galaxy aggregates public spending data from official sources in four countries. The structure below summarizes the pipeline for each country.

United Kingdom

Central government: HM Treasury OSCAR II, covering approximately 55 departments, executive agencies and bodies. The 2023 OSCAR edition was reprocessed to correct a £114B NHS artifact that would otherwise double-count health spending.
NHS: trust-level operating cost breakdowns for 206 provider trusts (118 acute, 45 mental health, 18 community, 15 specialist, 10 ambulance), with workforce and cost-type metadata where published. NHS commissioner (ICB) and provider (trust) values are netted against each other to avoid double-counting.
Local government: 401 English local authorities from MHCLG Revenue Outturn, plus 19 councils with supplier-level spend parsed from their own published registers and classified into MHCLG service categories. An additional 7 police and fire authorities are covered as separate entities.
Population data: ONS mid-2023 local authority estimates (residents, all ages, both sexes), attached to the 19 councils for per-capita analysis. Police and fire authorities do not receive population since they are service areas, not geographic entities.

Germany, France, United States

Federal budgets from the equivalent official sources (Bundeshaushalt, Loi de Finances / Budget de l’État, OMB Budget of the United States Government).
Multi-level consolidation (federal to state to local) is documented per country where the accounting crosses levels.

The full data pipeline is in the project repository. Every number on this site can be traced back to a specific line in a specific source file.

What went wrong

Public spending data has gaps, inconsistencies, and quirks that most transparency tools hide. Budget Galaxy documents them here because they matter for how you read the numbers.

Birmingham City Council is absent from the 2023-24 tree. Birmingham issued a Section 114 notice in September 2023, which disrupted their MHCLG submission pipeline. Their public spend register (City Observatory) uses a rolling 24-month window that has since purged 2023-24 transactions. We tried six alternative sources and recovered nothing. The 2024-25 data exists but cannot be injected because Birmingham has no node in the MHCLG-derived tree for that year.

Cornwall’s supplier totals are under review. Cornwall’s MHCLG net current expenditure (£1.0B) is consistent with other unitary authorities. But the supplier-level spend derived from Cornwall’s raw CSV sums to approximately £6.2B — roughly 6x the MHCLG operating value, compared to a ratio closer to 1.1x for other councils. The most likely explanation is that Cornwall’s “Net Amount” column includes capital expenditure and internal transfers alongside operating spend. Until this is reconciled, treat Cornwall’s supplier figures as an upper bound.

NHS commissioner and provider spending overlap. NHS Integrated Care Boards commission services from NHS Trusts. Summing ICB commissioning and Trust operating costs directly would double-count the same money. Budget Galaxy nets these values against each other. If you compare to a source that doesn’t do this netting, expect your totals to be larger than ours.

OSCAR 2023 had a £114B health artifact. The 2023 edition of HM Treasury’s OSCAR II dataset contained a £114B discrepancy in health spending that appears to be an accounting-transition artifact from the shift to OSCAR II. We removed it. Our 2023 UK total is therefore lower than a naive OSCAR 2023 sum by approximately that amount.

Germany, France, and the United States have their own data quirks documented in the source repository. This page focuses on the UK because it is where we have the deepest coverage.

Who built this and why

Budget Galaxy is built and maintained by an independent developer. The project is open and every number is traceable to an official source.

The project exists because public spending data in most countries is technically published but practically unreadable. Central government datasets are scattered across official portals, local government data is fragmented across hundreds of councils, and cross-country comparison is almost impossible without manual reconciliation. Budget Galaxy is one attempt at closing that gap for four countries.

The data, the pipeline, and the full source are in the project repository.

Über German Budget Galaxy

Was ist das?

Eine interaktive Visualisierung der gesamten öffentlichen Ausgaben in Deutschland, den USA, Frankreich und Großbritannien. Allein für Deutschland: €2,3 Billionen — aufgeschlüsselt nach Bundeshaushalt, Sozialversicherungen (GKV, Rente, Arbeitslosenversicherung, Pflege, Unfallversicherung), 16 Bundesländern und Kommunen.

Jede Kugel, die Sie sehen, stellt eine reale Haushaltsposition dar. Die Größe ist proportional zum Betrag. Klicken Sie auf eine Kugel, um zu sehen, was sich darin befindet. Zoomen Sie hinein für Details. Jeder Euro, Dollar und jedes Pfund ist einer offiziellen Quelle zuordenbar.

Warum gibt es das?

Der Bundeshaushalt ist öffentlich. Er wird jährlich vom Bundesministerium der Finanzen veröffentlicht. Jeder kann ihn einsehen.

Aber „öffentlich“ ist nicht dasselbe wie „zugänglich“. Die offiziellen Daten verteilen sich auf tausende Seiten von Einzelplänen in einem Format, das für parlamentarische Verfahren konzipiert ist, nicht für öffentliches Verständnis. Zu wissen, dass €44,8 Mrd. in die Rentenversicherung fließen, ist nicht dasselbe wie es neben den €47 Mio. für den Bundespräsidenten zu sehen.

Dieses Projekt macht die Struktur sichtbar. Nicht um für mehr oder weniger Ausgaben in irgendeinem Bereich zu argumentieren, sondern um jedem — Bürger, Journalist, Student, Forscher — ein unmittelbares, intuitives Verständnis davon zu geben, wohin das Geld fließt.

Drei Werkzeuge

Budget Galaxy

Der visuelle Einstiegspunkt. Eine zoombare Kreispackungsvisualisierung, in der jedes Ministerium eine Kugel ist und innerhalb jedes Ministeriums Kapitel und Titel verschachtelt sind. Die größte Kugel — Arbeit und Soziales mit €175,7 Mrd. — ist unmöglich zu übersehen. Das ist der Punkt.

Budget Explorer

Das analytische Werkzeug. Navigieren Sie die Haushaltshierarchie mit einem Brotkrumenpfad. Jede Ebene zeigt eine Aufschlüsselung mit Prozenten, Ausgabenartanalyse und angereichertem Kontext — wer profitiert, wie viel pro Person, wie Deutschland international vergleicht.

Budget Evolution

Die historische Ansicht. Zehn Jahre Haushaltsdaten (2015–2024), die zeigen, wie sich die Ausgaben verändert haben. Der COVID-Anstieg. Die Zeitenwende in der Verteidigung. Die Explosion der Zinskosten.

Datenquellen

Deutschland: Bundeshaushalt über bundeshaushalt.de, Sozialversicherungsdaten von GKV-Spitzenverband, DRV Bund, Bundesagentur für Arbeit; Länderhaushalte und Kommunalfinanzen über Destatis. USA: USAspending.gov. Frankreich: data.gouv.fr (PLF). UK: HM Treasury OSCAR.

Anreicherungsdaten (Empfängerzahlen, internationale Vergleiche) stammen von offiziellen Statistiken der jeweiligen Behörden: Deutsche Rentenversicherung, Bundesagentur für Arbeit, OECD, NATO, Destatis und andere.

Einschränkungen

• Der Bundeshaushalt zeigt den Soll-Haushalt, nicht die tatsächlichen Ausgaben (Ist).

• Außeretatmäßige Posten wie das Sondervermögen Bundeswehr (€100 Mrd.) und der Klima- und Transformationsfonds sind nicht enthalten.

• Die Gesamtdarstellung (€2,3 Bio.) enthält Überschneidungen zwischen Ebenen (z.B. Bundeszuschüsse zur Rentenversicherung). Der konsolidierte Gesamtbetrag ist niedriger.

• Anreicherungsdaten sind näherungsweise und aus verschiedenen Berichtszeiträumen (meist 2023–2024).

Jeder Euro, der von Bürgerinnen und Bürgern erhoben wird, sollte verständlich sein für diese Bürger. Nicht in parlamentarischen Formaten eingeschlossen. Nicht hinter Fachjargon versteckt. Sichtbar, erkundbar und vergleichbar — das ist, was dieses Werkzeug bietet.

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What this dataset is

This is a compiled dataset from 13 official public primary sources documenting German public funding flows to non-governmental organizations. It covers the period 2010–2025 and contains 528,000+ records.

Every record carries a confidence_level field (verified, estimated, or inferred) and a traceable source_url linking to the original primary source. The dataset documents funding flows — it does not attribute conduct, intent, or wrongdoing to any organization.

Statistical patterns in the dataset are detected by automated queries. They indicate data points that warrant further investigation by qualified journalists or researchers. They are not accusations.

Press Standards (Pressekodex Compliance)

How this dataset meets the Pressekodex standard

Pressekodex Ziffer	Requirement	This dataset
Ziffer 1 Wahrhaftigkeit	Facts must be verified	Every claim links to official primary source URL
Ziffer 2 Sorgfaltspflicht	Independent verification	13 sources cross-checked; confidence_level per record; limitations documented
Ziffer 2 Sorgfaltspflicht	Right of reply	Dataset is factual — no conduct attributed to any organization
Ziffer 3 Richtigstellung	Correct errors promptly	Public versioning log with timestamps
Ziffer 8 Persönlichkeitsrechte	Protect personal data	All data relates to organizations, not natural persons
Ziffer 13 Unschuldsvermutung	No prejudgment	Statistical patterns only — no accusations

This dataset provides what responsible data journalism on NGO funding requires: traceable primary sources, documented limitations, confidence levels per record, and factual restraint. Every claim can be verified against the original source.

Data Source Licenses

Source	License	Attribution Required	ShareAlike	Commercial Use
OECD CRS	OECD Terms (open, attribution)	Yes	No	✓
IATI Datastore	ODC-PDDL v1.0 (public domain)	Not required	No	✓
EU FTS	CC BY 4.0 / CC0 (raw data)	Yes — cite EC	No	✓
Berlin ZDB	CC BY-SA	Yes	Yes	✓
Bundeshaushalt	Datenlizenz Deutschland Zero v2.0	Not required	No	✓
Bundestag DIP	Public parliamentary docs (§5 UrhG)	Cite Drucksache number	No	✓
FragDenStaat	CC0 / public domain	Cite fragdenstaat.de	No	✓
Bremen ZEBRA	Datenlizenz Deutschland	Yes	No	✓
Demokratie leben! PDFs	Public government docs	Cite BMFSFJ	No	✓
NGO Monitor	Editorial/research use	Cite ngo-monitor.org	No	⚠ Research only

This compiled dataset is published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

You are free to share, copy, redistribute, adapt, and build upon this material for any purpose, including commercial use, under the following terms:

Attribution: Cite as 'German Budget Galaxy (2026)' + cite the original primary source for each record used
ShareAlike: Derivative datasets must use the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license
No endorsement: Use of this data does not imply endorsement by any source organization

Acceptable Use & Limitations

Permitted uses:

Journalism, academic research, public policy analysis
Personal, educational, and non-profit use
Reproduction with attribution to primary source

Prohibited uses:

Attributing criminal, fraudulent, or immoral conduct to any organization based solely on this dataset
Presenting data as “exclusive” when the primary source is publicly available
Combining with personal data without appropriate legal basis

Dataset corrections log:

No corrections recorded. Dataset version: 1.0 (2026-03-30)

What this dataset is

Acceptable use

Prohibited use

Key limitations

License

Pressekodex note

Budget Galaxy

Select a country

Top 20 Countries by Records

Regional Distribution

Funding by Ministry

Yearly Trend

Organizations

Data Sources

Transparency Comparison: EU vs Germany

Side-by-Side Comparison

Same Organizations, Different Transparency

Top EU-Funded German NGOs

Bundeszentrale Traeger

Modellprojekte

Partnerschaften fur Demokratie

About Budget Galaxy

Über German Budget Galaxy

Was ist das?

Warum gibt es das?

Drei Werkzeuge

Budget Galaxy

Budget Explorer

Budget Evolution

Datenquellen

Einschränkungen

What this dataset is

Press Standards (Pressekodex Compliance)

Data Source Licenses

Acceptable Use & Limitations

Permitted uses:

Prohibited uses:

Dataset corrections log:

What this dataset is

Acceptable use

Prohibited use

Key limitations

License

Pressekodex note

Budget Galaxy

Select a country

Top 20 Countries by Records

Regional Distribution

Funding by Ministry

Yearly Trend

Organizations

Data Sources

Transparency Comparison: EU vs Germany

Side-by-Side Comparison

Same Organizations, Different Transparency

Top EU-Funded German NGOs

Bundeszentrale Traeger

Modellprojekte

Partnerschaften fur Demokratie

About Budget Galaxy

Über German Budget Galaxy

Was ist das?

Warum gibt es das?

Drei Werkzeuge

Budget Galaxy

Budget Explorer

Budget Evolution

Datenquellen

Einschränkungen

What this dataset is

Press Standards (Pressekodex Compliance)

Data Source Licenses

Acceptable Use & Limitations

Permitted uses:

Prohibited uses:

GDPR / DSGVO note:

Dataset corrections log: