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ANNUAL REPORTS & AUDITED ACCOUNTS
How is Positive Money funded?
Positive Money is a not-for-profit company and receives the majority of its funding from a number of charitable trusts and foundations. We also receive funding from a network of committed individual supporters providing both regular and occasional donations.
In the financial year ending 31 March 2023, 6% of our funding came from regular and occasional donations from our individual supporters. 93% came from grants from trusts and foundations or other charities and nonprofits. 1% came from other operating income including income received for the provision of services. More detail on our funders and donors and the amounts given for each project is provided at the bottom of this page.
In terms of expenditure, our main costs are salaries for our team of staff and contractors, while our overheads are kept very low. In the same financial year, 64% of our total expenditure went on staff costs, including for research, influencing and advocacy, campaigning and mobilising our supporters, and coordinating the UK and international campaigns. 11% of costs were sent to our Brussels counterpart, Positive Money Europe, 12% of costs were sent to our United States of America counterpart, Positive Money US, and came from those grants to us that had portions of their budgets specifically earmarked for activities in the EU and the USA respectively. Other costs include books and staff training of 1%, communications and online services costs of 3%, contractors 3%, events 1%, and IT, office, administration and other sundry costs a total of 5% (including rent for a small 5-desk office).
The organisations listed at the bottom of this page provide funding for our core projects, but we depend on the support of dedicated individual supporters in order to keep campaigning for a banking system that works in the interests of ordinary people. If you can, please help with a small monthly donation.
We are extremely grateful for the generous support of all our funders, without whom our work would simply not be possible.
Transparency: Positive Money is committed to transparency about its sources of funding. In March 2019 Transparify awarded Positive Money their highest rating of 5 stars, after evaluating our public funding information. Transparify have since re-certified this rating each year, most recently in March 2024. Transparify is an independent assessor of the funding transparency of think tanks all over the world.
“Positive Money’s level of financial disclosure is exemplary. Stakeholders can see exactly who funds its work, what sums they provide, and for which activities, and so can rest assured that there are no hidden agendas. Transparency is a core democratic value, and Transparify is delighted to see that Positive Money walks the talk when it comes to revealing its own funding sources.”
– Dr Till Bruckner, Advocacy Manager, Transparify
List of funders April 2022 – March 2023: Organisations from whom we received funding within the last financial year, and the amounts they provided, are listed below with the name of the project or area of work funded. Click on the logos below to be directed to their websites. A note regarding our individual donors is also included at the bottom.
£60,000 – Scaling up green investment to address the cost of living and inflation crises
£87,500 – Core Funding to support the organisation.
£60,000 – A wellbeing economy for environmental and social justice
£72,851 – Core funding to support the organisation (received via our EU office)
£150,000 – Towards a money and banking system that supports ecological and human wellbeing
£20,000 – Development funds for key strategic topics
£100,000 – Transforming the international monetary and financial system for environmental sustainability and security
£267,686 – The Sunrise Project – Greening central banks’ policies in the UK, US and EU
£23,000 – Trust for London – for work on housing policy and tackling housing affordability
£8,000 – Post Office for our work towards two events at the Labour and Conservative party conferences.
INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS: In the financial year ending 31 March 2023 Positive Money received £50,050 in donations from 1,057 private individuals. None contributed more than £1,200 in total during the year.