| Absztrakt | LGBTI movements in Europe aregrowing rapidly, yet a significant number of LGBTI
organisations have no government or foundation funding.
The number of LGBTI organisations Europe is growing rapidly. Almost half of the organisations
responding to this survey were founded since 2012 and nearly one third were founded since 2015.
However, funding remains inaccessible for many LGBTI organisations. In 2017, one third of LGBTI
organisations in Europe had no external funding, which includes government and foundation funding
and excludes funding raised from their own communities. Organisations without external funding also
do not receive subgrants from intermediaries, who in this case are other non-profit organisations.
Lack of external fundingfor LGBTI organisations is a problem across Europe’s
subregions; however, access to funding varies.
There are a critical mass of LGBTI organisations throughout Europe and Central Asia that lack external
funding. However, access to external funding is not even across subregions. More than two in five
organizations in Northern Europe and almost one in three organizations in Western Europe reported
having no external funding. This was true despite the fact that often LGBTI organisations in these
regions were founded earlier, which is typically associated with larger budgets and more external
funding. About a quarter of organisations in Southern Europe, Eastern Europe and Central and West
Asia reported having no external funding. The most common sources of external funding for LGBTI
organisations were foundations, country governments and subgrants from an LGBTI organisation. LGBTI
organisations with budgets under €50,000 were twice as likely to receive funding from foundations
than from their own country government.
Organisations that focus on a subset of LGBTI people are more likely to have smaller
budgets and fewer paid staff
While the majority of LGBTI organisations in Europe work on LGBTI issues or people generally, almost
two in five work specifically and primarily with a subset of the LGBTI community. For organisations
responding to this survey, the most common subpopulations were transgender and gender
nonconforming people and bisexual people. However, organisations focusing on intersex people, gay
and bisexual men and LGBTI women were also present.
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