Funding and finances
BankTrack operates strictly independent from the financial sector and does not take any support from any financial institution. We finance ourselves through grants from private foundations and the occasional donation from individuals. As per January 2024, our funding sources are:
- The Customer Union for Ethical Banking provides a grant to support work focused on the Cooperative Bank (EUR 2,340 in 2024);
- The Ecology Trust supports our Nature campaign (EUR 36,300);
- The European Climate Foundation supports two projects on steel and coal finance (EUR 200,000 for 2024);
- The KR Foundation supports our Banks and Climate campaign (EUR 150,000 in 2024);
- The Rockefeller Brothers Fund supports our work with a general-purpose grant (USD 50,000 for 2024);
- The Sunrise Project is supporting our Banks and Climate campaign (EUR 120,000 for 2024);
- The Tilia Fund supports our work with a general-purpose grant (EUR 185,000 for 2024, tbc);
- The 11th hour project of the Schmidt Foundation supports our Banks and Human rights campaign work with a project grant (USD 110,000 in total for 2024);
- The Minderoo Foundation is supporting a pilot project on plastic finance (EUR 35,000).
Figures are based on allocation of funding for 2024, including leftovers from 2023. More applications are pending and will be published on this page once secured.
For more information on our financial situation please see our 2023 Financial Report.
Help us expand our work
Our budget never matches our ambitions. Despite working very cost effective, we are always short of funds. If you value our work, or if our work benefits your business and you wish to make a donation to BankTrack in return, please contact Johan Frijns, BankTrack director, at johan@banktrack.org. We are happy to talk with you about our plans and how you may contribute to make them work. In case you want to support our work right now please check the options here.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of all our funders for making our work possible.