The NGO TRANSPARENCY DASHBOARD

The tool European institutions should have built

EU funds. NGO spending. Your right to see.

The NGO Transparency Dashboard

Public money, public data — finally connected.

Belgium comes first (*roughly 2 000 EU-funded NGOs and NFPOs). New profiles are published every week. The same method will expand to all EU member states.

1

One card per NGO – total EU direct-management funding, VAT number, and the years covered by grants.

2

HR transparency pattern – staff costs mainly on payroll, mainly in “services”, or cannot be read from the public record.

3

Real-world capacity – declared staff range, funding scale, and parallel grants or projects per year.

Why this dashboard exists

Billions in EU grants flow each year to NGOs and non-profits, yet the information remains fragmented: the EU Financial Transparency System contains duplicates, inconsistent classifications, and often no usable identifiers such as VAT numbers.

No public source shows, in one place, who receives EU funding, how much, with what staffing capacity, under which reporting model, or how many projects run in parallel.

This dashboard connects those dots.

Read before using this dashboard:

This dashboard is a public-interest transparency tool based exclusively on official public records and EU law. It responds to findings of the European Court of Auditors that there is no reliable, consolidated EU-level overview of NGO funding due to fragmented and self-declared data. In line with the EU Financial Regulation, it links EU funding data with national legal, accounting and employer records to show where publicly funded activities can — and cannot — be traced using information available to citizens.

All indicators shown are transparency and audit-complexity signals only. They are not findings of illegality, misuse, fraud, labour-law breaches or intent. High invoiced services, low registered payroll, multiple parallel grants or limited public filings do not imply wrongdoing; they indicate limits in what public records allow to be verified. The dashboard makes no accusations, legal assessments or determinations, does not replace audits, investigations or judicial proceedings, and exists solely to support public understanding. Only competent authorities and courts can determine legality or wrongdoing.

How this Dashboard is built - data and method (*click here)

Scope and starting point

This dashboard connects EU-level funding data with national-level company and employer data for NGOs and non-profits.
It is designed for all EU member states. The pilot country is Belgium, where full NGO profiles are currently based on official Belgian registers and social-security data.
Every profile is an analytical reading of public records, not a verdict. Only competent authorities and courts can decide on legality or misuse of funds.

EU funding data

The “Beneficiary’s contracted amount” and “Years covered” come from the European Commission’s Financial Transparency System (FTS), which is the official online list of recipients under direct management of the EU budget

National legal and financial filings

Annual accounts (including payroll and “services & misc.” / operating expenses) are taken from national annual-accounts databases where associations are required to file, under each country’s company/associations law and accounting rules.

National employer / social-security registers

“Registered staff” is based on official employer size bands in national social-security statistics. In Belgium, the dashboard uses the ONSS employer “importance” code, where code 1 = 1–4 workers, code 2 = 5–9 workers, code 3 = 10–19 workers.

NGO’s own public communications

“Staff listed on website” counts named individuals presented as staff / team / secretariat on the NGO’s official website, on a specific date. Each count is timestamped, and a screenshot is kept on file to document what was publicly shown at that date.

HR transparency tag (🟢 / 🟠 / ⛔)

Uses the NGO’s national annual accounts for the years where EU funding is visible. Compares staff costs on payroll with operating costs booked as “services & other goods”. Tags are assigned as follows:
🟢 HR mostly on payroll – payroll is clearly visible and forms the main labour-related cost. |
🟠 HR mainly in “services” – “services & other goods” is the dominant cost line, and payroll is much smaller. |
⛔ HR in the dark – public filings do not allow a meaningful comparison (no detailed staff breakdown, minimal format, or missing years).

Registered staff (1–4, 5–9, …)

Shows the official staff-size band for the NGO’s main establishment, based on national social-security / employer statistics.

For Belgium, this is the ONSS “importance” code for the latest year overlapping with EU funding.

Ranges are used because national systems publish bands, not exact headcounts.

Funding scale

Groups each NGO’s total EU direct-management funding into size bands (for example: Medium ≈ €5–20m; Large ≈ €20–50m; Very large ≥€50m).

The goal is comparability at a glance, not a judgement on whether the amount is appropriate.

Parallel grants

Counts how many EU grants overlap in time in the NGO’s busiest year in FTS. The result is then grouped as:

Low (≤4 parallel grants),
High (5–9),
Very high (≥10).

This shows whether an NGO tends to run few or many EU projects at once; it does not assess workload quality.

Totals for payroll vs “services & misc.

Where annual accounts allow it, the dashboard sums all payroll and all “services & other goods” for the years in which the NGO appears in FTS.

These totals cover all activities, not only EU projects, and are shown so citizens can see the overall balance between wages and invoiced services across the same period.

It joins up data that already exists in separate public systems: EU funding, national legal entities, national annual accounts, employer statistics and NGOs’ own websites.

It applies the same method to every NGO in the pilot country, so differences come from the data, not from ad-hoc treatment.

It does not claim that any NGO has misused funds or broken the law. Only competent authorities and courts can determine wrongdoing.

It highlights patterns and blind spots that citizens, journalists and institutions are entitled to see, grounded entirely in what organisations and authorities have already put on the record.

This is the NGO Landscape this Dashboard reflects, in 3 charts:

STAFF SIZE

Distribution of EU-funded NGOs by registered staff band.

HR TRANSPARENCY

Distribution of NGOs by how clearly their HR costs can be traced in public records.

Categories mirror the HR transparency badges on each NGO profile.

PARALLEL GRANTS

Distribution of NGOs by number of parallel EU grants running in the same year.

This platform is financed by subscriptions and donations. No NGO, company or institution can pay to be listed, delisted or re-scored. Methodology is public; corrections are based only on documented evidence.

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PSCE – Public Safety Communication Europe

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BE0818127395

Beneficiary’s contracted amount

Staff listed on website:

0 23-12-2025

Years covered:

2014-2023

HR transparency:

⛔ HR in the dark (public record too thin)

Registered Staff:

(!) NOT registered as an employer

Funding scale:

Medium (€5–20M)

Parallel grants:

High number (5–9)

ENEN – European Nuclear Education Network

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BE0687994274

Beneficiary’s contracted amount

Staff listed on website:

5 09-12-2025

Years covered:

2019, 2020, 2022, 2024

HR transparency:

⛔ HR in the dark (public record too thin)

Registered Staff:

1-4 employees

Funding scale:

Medium (€5–20M)

Parallel grants:

Very high number (≥10)

INTERPEACE EUROPE AISBL

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BE0875218033

Beneficiary’s contracted amount

Staff listed on website:

55 09-12-2025

Years covered:

2014, 2018 - 2024

HR transparency:

🟠 HR mainly in "services" (public accounts)

Registered Staff:

1-4 employees

Funding scale:

Medium (€5–20M)

Parallel grants:

High number (5–9)

IMPEL – European Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law

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BE0898135767

Beneficiary’s contracted amount

Staff listed on website:

7 09-12-2025

Years covered:

2014 - 2024

HR transparency:

⛔ HR in the dark (public record too thin)

Registered Staff:

1-4 employees

Funding scale:

Medium (€5–20M)

Parallel grants:

High number (5–9)

ICTJ – Centre International pour la Justice Transitionnelle * International Center for Transitional Justice

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BE0883573592

Beneficiary’s contracted amount

Staff listed on website:

60 09-12-2025

Years covered:

2014, 2015, 2021 - 2024

HR transparency:

🟢 HR mostly on payroll (public accounts)

Registered Staff:

1-4 employees

Funding scale:

Medium (€5–20M)

Parallel grants:

Low number (≤4)

ECAS – European Citizen Action Service * Service D’action pour le Citoyen Europeen

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BE0442397402

Beneficiary’s contracted amount

Staff listed on website:

16 05-12-2025

Years covered:

2015-2024

HR transparency:

🟠 HR mainly in "services" (public accounts)

Registered Staff:

5-9 employees

Funding scale:

Large (€20–50M)

Parallel grants:

Very high number (≥10)

ECES – European center for Electoral Support * Centre Europeen D’Appui Electoral