{"id":10939,"date":"2024-04-04T11:22:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T09:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/?page_id=10939"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:24:21","slug":"mukodes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/en\/mukodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h1>Finances<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The publisher of Direkt36 is a public benefit, non-profit company, and no dividends can be extracted from it. <\/span><b>The company\u2019s funds are used exclusively for our operations \u2013 to achieve our goals.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> When financial resources allow, we expand our team, carry out larger-scale investigative projects, and build some reserves.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> An example of the latter is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bZ4SXv9qJHM\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">our film <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dynasty<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which we released on YouTube on February 7, 2025, and which had accumulated 4.3 million views by May 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Thanks to the individuals who support us, Direkt36\u2019s independence is guaranteed and the financial basis of our operations is stable.<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those who support us know that Direkt36 will still be around in five years\u2019 time, upholding the same values and carrying out the same activities as it does today. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our last completed and reported fiscal year, 2025, we received more than 21,000 so-called micro-grants from individuals, even more than the previous year. Together with the 1% donations from the Center for Independent Journalism, the donations covered our annual budget of around HUF 156 million. (This proportion was 84% in 2024.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/en\/tamogass-minket\/\"><b>You can join our membership program here.<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Media outlets such as Direkt36, which perform tasks that are essential to democracy on a non-commercial basis, are supported by a number of foundations and other organisations, mainly international ones. <\/span><b>We only accept support from institutions that do not interfere in any way with our work.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> For 2025, we have received funding for the operation of Direkt36 from the following institutions:<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>we have been working with <a href=\"https:\/\/cij.hu\/\">the Center for Independent Journalism<\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in Budapest for several years to collect 1% VAT pledges from the members of the Hungarian public; we campaign together, and a significant part of the donations is given to Direkt36 for investigative articles, as decided by the Foundation&#8217;s board and in accordance with information provided in the campaign;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we received a three-year grant from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sigrid-rausing-trust.org\/\">Sigrid Rausing Trust<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0(London), starting in 2023;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we received a two-year grant for 2025 and 2026 from the <\/span> Brussels-based <a href=\"https:\/\/civitates-eu.org\/\">Civitates<\/a> Foundation;<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/democracypluralism.org\/\">Foundation for Democracy &amp; Pluralism<\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(B\u00e5stad, Sweden) suppors Direkt36 for two years (until the end of 2026).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We participated in two grant programs that ran through 2025, both of which were funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The U.S. government terminated these two grants in January 2025; however, since the amounts involved were small and our financial situation is stable thanks to our individual supporters, this did not cause any disruption to our operations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Direkt36 is participating in the CJEGC project, led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/en\/europai-kollaborativ-ujsagiras-globalis-kontextusban-cjegc\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">partially funded by the European Union\u2019s Creative Europe CREA program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The project runs from October 1, 2025, to September 30, 2027.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, none of these partners had any say in the content we produced \u2013 nor did anyone else.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the audited accounts for the year 2025, the financial statement and balance sheet total of Direkt36 Nonprofit Ltd. was HUF 498,483 thousand. The amount deposited in stocks and in the company\u2019s bank account is mainly derived from donations already transferred and to be used later for our operations.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Detailed information on the financial year 2025<\/strong> (in Hungarian)<\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Financial statement and balance sheet 2025 (HU) \u2013<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/direkt36-hu.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/CEGINFO_EB20250101-20251231_Direkt36_U.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">download<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notes to the financial statement 2025 (HU) \u2013<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/direkt36-hu.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Kiegeszito_melleklet_2025_Direkt36.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">download<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Public benefit statement 2025 (HU) \u2013<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/direkt36-hu.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Direkt36_NKft_kozhasznusagi_melleklet.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">download<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Independent auditors&#8217; report 2025 (HU)<\/span> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/direkt36-hu.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Direkt36_Nonprofit_Kft_konyvvizsgaloi_jelentes_2025.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">download<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/beszamolok\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Previous years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Our institutional supporters in 2025<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"sponsors-matrix\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"display: block; border-bottom: 1px solid #444; padding: 0 0 2px 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/civitates-eu.org\/\">Civitates<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sigrid-rausing-trust.org\/\"><span style=\"display: block; border-bottom: 1px solid #444; padding: 0 0 2px 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0;\">The Sigrid Rausing Trust<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/democracypluralism.org\/\"><span style=\"display: block; border-bottom: 1px solid #444; padding: 0 0 2px 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0;\">Foundation for Democracy and Pluralism<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/en\/europai-kollaborativ-ujsagiras-globalis-kontextusban-cjegc\/\"><span style=\"display: block; border-bottom: 1px solid #444; padding: 0 0 2px 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0;\">ICIJ\/European Commission Creative Europe programme<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong>Our institutional supporters of the last five years<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"sponsors-matrix\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"display: block; border-bottom: 1px solid #444; padding: 0 0 2px 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/civitates-eu.org\/\">Civitates<\/a> 2021-2023, 2024, 2025-2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"display: block; border-bottom: 1px solid #444; padding: 0 0 2px 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.occrp.org\/en\">JDN\/OCCRP<\/a> 2023-2024, 2024-2025, 2025-2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"display: block; border-bottom: 1px solid #444; padding: 0 0 2px 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/democracypluralism.org\/\">Foundation for Democracy &amp; Pluralism<\/a> 2022-2024, 2025-2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"display: block; border-bottom: 1px solid #444; padding: 0 0 2px 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sigrid-rausing-trust.org\/\">The Sigrid Rausing Trust<\/a> 2019-2023<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"display: block; border-bottom: 1px solid #444; padding: 0 0 2px 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zincnetwork.com\/\">Zinc Network<\/a> 2024-2025<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sponsors-matrix\"><\/div>\n<h1 id=\"rolunk-partnerek\">Professional partners<\/h1>\n<div class=\"sponsors-matrix\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"display: block; border-bottom: 1px solid #444; padding: 0 0 2px 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0;\">Global Investigative Journalism Network<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gijn.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GIJN-Logo-dark.png\" alt=\"OCCRP\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"display: block; border-bottom: 1px solid #444; padding: 0 0 2px 0; margin: 0 0 10px 0;\">OCCRP<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.occrp.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"\/\/www.direkt36.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/OCCRP_Banner_s.jpg\" alt=\"OCCRP\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finances The publisher of Direkt36 is a public benefit, non-profit company, and no dividends can be extracted from it. The company\u2019s funds are used exclusively for our operations \u2013 to achieve our goals. When financial resources allow, we expand our team, carry out larger-scale investigative projects, and build some reserves. 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