Grants
De Boomgaard Foundation was established on May 12, 2005 as a private grant-giving foundation.
The founders are two philanthropists who wish to support youth and children, initiatives to advance climate justice and local heritage and innovations. The foundation is partnering with ambitious charities or non-for profit organisations. It was ranked as public benefit organisation (ANBI) and can make and receive tax-free donations.
- Period: 2024
- Location: Cape Verde, Sal
The SARA Association is originally a women's sports association in Sal, Cape Verde. They aim at reducing poverty and promoting gender equality and sustainable consumption within their community. The snack project covers all these objectives. It sets ups a business that produces and distributes frozen snacks.
- Period: 2025 – now
- Location: Netherlands, International
- Website: https://www.franckgiving.org
Franck Giving is a platform that allows donors to give directly to partnered African schools and students in a simple, transparent way. The platform improves education sustainably by focusing on quality, accessibility, and continuity from primary to higher education.
- Period: 2025 – now
- Location: Schotland
- Website: https://www.hw.ac.uk
The Hoogenboom Scholarship Programme provides fully funded master’s scholarships for women from Sub-Saharan Africa, enabling them to study at the Lyell Centre for Earth and Marine Sciences and Technology at Heriot-Watt University.
- Period: 2025 - now
- Location: Kenya
- Website: https://www.wawakenya.org
WAWA – No Sex For Fish empowers vulnerable women around Lake Victoria to break free from poverty and sexual exploitation by offering skills training and entrepreneurial opportunities.
- Period: 2023 - now
- Location: Butula, Busia County, Kenya
- Website: http://www.partnersforgirls.org
Partners for Girls Africa Foundation (PFGAF) in Busia County empowers girls from rural areas who face the risk of early marriage or school dropout.
- Period: 2025 - now
- Location: Ukraine
- Website: https://www.lifeline-ukraine.org
On 1 January 2025, Stichting de Boomgaard initiated a project with Lifeline Ukraine, Energy Act Ukraine, and Solarge to equip hospitals and two schools near the frontline in Ukraine with solar energy.
- Period: 2024 - now
- Location: The Netherlands - Laren
- Website: http://www.visitgooivecht.nl/nl/zien-doen/erfgoedfestival
Erfgoedfestival Makers in Gooi & Vecht emphasizes the heritage and innovative spirit of her region with a festival. A youth creative youth programme is developed to inspire children.
- Period: 2024 - now
- Location: The Netherlands - Veere
- Website: http://www.grotekerkveere.nl
The dance programme of Stichting Exploitatie Grote Kerk Veere connects children, students and young people of all backgrounds.
- Period: 2024
- Location: Tanzania - Arusha
- Website: https://www.microkrediettanzania.nl
Stichting Pamoja Nguvu micro finances vulnerable groups of women in Arusha, Tanzania. The support of De Boomgaard helps 30 women.
- Period: 2024 - now
- Location: Norway - Oslo
- Website: http://www.futureisfungi.org
With the “Future is Fungi Award”, we both honor and accelerate the use of fungi to solve pressing environmental challenges. We want to inspire to more fungi research and startup innovations.
- Period: 2024 - now
- Location: Amsterdam
- Website: http://www.themoscowtimes.com
Artists against the Kremlin is the world’s largest exhibition of anti-war and dissident Russian-speaking artists held in Amsterdam. A catalogue was published also.
- Period: 2024
- Location: Syria
- Website: http://www.humanitairehulpsyrie.nl
We fund continuation of healthcare in Al Bab city, Swaiha region, and mobile medical posts in refugee camps in Aleppo province in Syria.
- Period: 2024
- Location: The Netherlands - Almen
- Website: http://www.nationaalheksenmonument.nl
The National Witch Monument Foundation wants to create a physical monument in memory of those who have been persecuted, tortured, convicted and put to death as witches on the territory of The Netherlands.
- Period: 2024 - now
- Location: Kenya
- Website: http://www.partnersforgirls.org
Partners for Girls founded a leadership centre for girls in Butula in Busia County and provides job preparation and coaching. Foundation De Boomgaard helped kickstart this centre and funded sanitary facilities.
- Period: 2024 – Now
- Location: Global
- Website: http://www.shechangesclimate.org
SHE Changes Climate is driving global momentum for gender-equal leadership in climate decision-making. Through campaigns, policy work, leadership training, and data on gender and climate, the organisation amplifies women’s voices in shaping a more sustainable and just future.
- Period: 2024
- Location: The Netherlands, Voorschoten
- Website: http://www.trombosestichting.nl
The Dutch Thrombosis Foundation undertakes scientific research into kids thrombosis, in its PHARMA Kids survey.
- Period: 2024 - now
- Location: West Cameroon
- Website: http://www.stichtingpaterjanmolenaar.nl
Training of trauma specialists is undertaken to support traumatized victims of conflict and internal violence.
- Period: 2024
- Location: Eastern Africa
- Website: http://www.tweegamedica.com
Tweega Medica provides medical care for disadvantaged populations in remote areas in Tanzania and Malawi. De Boomgaard helps them scale up in 3 different hospitals.
- Period: 2024 - 2025
- Location: Ukraine
- Website: http://www.emilefoundation.org
The Emile Foundation (before: Orphans Feeding Foundation) takes part in the “Bring Kids Back UA” programme, were children deported from Ukraine to Russia are traced and taken back home.
- Period: 2024
- Location: Marrakech
- Website: http://www.moustaqbel.org
Dar Moustaqbel means 'The House of the Future'. It offers a safe shelter and quality education to 80 female students a year in and around Marrakech, Morocco.
- Period: 2024 – now
- Location: Netherlands, Rotterdam
- Website: https://www.netwerknieuwrotterdam.nl
Netwerk Nieuw Rotterdam supports around 1,600 vulnerable young people (16–27) in Rotterdam every year. It offers a safe, welcoming space where youth build friendships, develop social and life skills, and engage in meaningful activities and volunteering - to promote connection, growth, and positive involvement in the city.
- Period: 2024 - now
- Location: The Netherlands - Amsterdam
- Website: http://www.humannaturefilms.com
Human Nature Films is researching the production of a fiction documentary that portrays the intriguing story of Suriname's least known inhabitants, the Tarëno tribe. De Boomgaard funded the research trip for this movie.
- Period: 2024 - now
- Location: Zimbabwe
- Website: http://www.emeraldclimatehub.org
The Emerald Climate Hub, a youth-led nonprofit founded by Tafadzwa Kurotwi (also active in SHE Changes Climate), has launched the Emerald Biogas Initiative in Wedza, Zimbabwe. The goal is to provide access to clean energy and economic opportunity to women and youth.
- Period: 2023 – Now
- Location: The Netherlands
- Website: http://www.wonderzine.com
In April 2022, Wonderzine was banned by the Russian government primarily because of its support for the LGBTQIA+ community. This ban led to the immediate loss of half its readership in Russia as well as significant advertising revenue, dealing a severe blow to the magazine’s sustainability.
- Period: 2023
- Location: Santa Maria, Sal, Cape Verde
The budget of Foundation De Boomgaard, provides a small amount available for spontaneous contributions. In 2023, T-shirts, shorts and sports shoes for the girls of the basketball team Team Florença in Santa Maria, Sal, Cape Verde were supplied.
- Period: 2023
- Location: United Kingdom – Isle of Wight
- Website: http://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation was founded by former solo sailor Dame Ellen MacArthur. Its mission is to accelerate the transition to a regenerative, circular economy. We fund the production of 2 short films on plastics, as well as consultation input for a third documentary, and for promotion off all these.
- Period: 2023
- Location: South Africa – Port Shepstone
- Website: http://www.pschildwelfare.org.za
Child Welfare South Africa is a public benefit organization, dedicated to protecting and nurturing children within their family units in 22 rural areas. In the Ugu District in KwaZulu Natal. Child Welfare has expanded her staff with some permanent community and administrative workers with funds provided by Stichting de Boomgaard.
- Period: 2023 - now
- Location: Afghanistan
- Website: https://www.learnafghan.org
In Afghanistan girls access to education is extremely restricted by the Taliban. Despite all exclusions Learn Afghan provides girls with skills and knowledge to study further, fostering their personal growth, leadership and communities development. Foundation De Boomgaard supports girls studying in Kandahar, Bamyan and Helmand provinces.
- Period: 2023
- Location: Cape Verde - Sal - Santa Maria
- Website: http://www.csdfoundation.org
The CSD Foundation focuses on improving the living conditions of people in Cape Verde through 'local entrepreneurship', 'education', and 'sustainable tourism'. With the project Sinti bo Felisidadi, a photo competition and exhibition, the foundation contributes to the preservation of art and culture on the island of Sal, and provides income for young ambitious photographers.
- Period: Period: 2023 – Today
- Location: The Netherlands
- Website: http://www.thinknowfoundation.com
The THINK NOW team sparks public debate and builds support for adding sustainability to primary and secondary school curricula in the Netherlands.
- Period: 2023 - 2024
- Location: The Netherlands - Vleuten
- Website: http://www.cornerstone-foundation.org
The Cornerstone Foundation helps vulnerable school leavers in Rwanda with vocational training and thus to gain a solid foundation for life. It is the Great Lakes Hospitality Institute which trains young people to become professionals in the hotel and restaurant industry by teaching them the essential basic skills.
- Period: 2023
- Location: The Netherlands – Almere
- Website: http://www.rhiza.nl
Stichting Rhiza, or Rhiza Babuyile, active in South Africa aims at self-sustainable health care in townships by innovative Nursepreneur clinics. Nurse-led mobile clinics provide communities with access to quality primary healthcare. Foundation De Boomgaard has funded a Nursepreneur clinic in Soshanguve, a township near Pretoria, where 1 million people live in poverty.
- Period: 2023
- Location: The Netherlands – Hilversum
- Website: http://www.bouwmeeaantergooi.nl
Tergooi MC has recently completed the greenest hospital in the Netherlands for the region ‘Gooi- en Vechstreek’. Tergooi MC wants to bring nature to and into the hospital. Foundation De Boomgaard shares the view that a ‘green hospital’ immensely contributes to healing processes and has funded one of the 6 patio gardens. Fruit trees have been included.
- Period: 2023 - now
- Location: International
- Website: http://www.klabu.org
KLABU builds clubhouses in refugee camps all over the world, where refugees and host communities come together through sport. In these welcoming spaces, play becomes a powerful tool for healing, empowerment, and connection.
- Period: 2023
- Location: The Netherlands - Muiden
- Website: http://www.pampus.nl
The island of Pampus is part of the 19th century waterline defense of Amsterdam. In 1996 it became a UNESCO world heritage site. The Fort Island Pampus Foundation, responsible for preserving the heritage, is developing Pampus into a fully climate neutral and educational island. Foundation De Boomgaard helped in funding a hypermodern renewable energy system and a sustainable built classroom.
- Period: 2022 & 2023
- Location: The Netherlands - Amsterdam
- Website: http://www.gofossilfree.org
Fossielvrij is a citizens' movement taking action for the end of the fossil era and the beginning of a climate-just world focusing on financial institutions.
- Period: 2022 – Now
- Location: UK
- Website: https://www.thecottagefamilycentre.org.uk
Since its founding in 2022 by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, The National Family Centre has grown from one pilot location in Fife to a network of six Multibanks across the UK. These Multibanks collect and distribute surplus essential goods to families facing poverty. In doing so, they get support from Amazon, providing logistics expertise and surplus donations.
- Period: 2022
- Location: The Netherlands - Amsterdam
- Website: https://diif.foundation
Donor Impact Invest Fund (DIIF) uses donations from family funds and individuals to invest in Dutch impact companies and enterprises with a social mission.
- Period: 2022
- Location: Nepal
- Website: http://www.nicnepal.org
The National Innovation Centre in Nepal invented and built the Nyano Nani. An affordable, effective and locally built baby warmer that provides essential warmth to hypothermic newborn babies. The staff worked closely with, among others, students at TU Delft. The contribution is aimed at reducing the production price.
- Period: 2022
- Location: The Netherlands - Huizen
- Website: http://www.huizermuseum.nl
The cultural history museum portrays, preserves and manages the history of Huizen, including a fine costume collection. The contribution enables the museum to hire a professional fundraiser.
- Period: 2022
- Location: The Netherlands - Amsterdam
- Website: http://www.humanactivities.org
Human Activities is an arts institute founded by Dutch artist Renzo Martens. It brings the inequality out on which wealth and beauty in museums in global cities is based with The White Cube project
- Period: 2022 – Now
- Location: India
- Website: http://www.freeagirl.nl
Free a Girl is on a mission to end the sexual exploitation of children by actively rescuing victims from unsafe situations and helping them rebuild their lives. Through long-term care, education, and the fight for justice, they empower survivors to heal, thrive, and create lasting change.
- Period: 2022 & 2024
- Location: Ukraine
- Website: http://www.lifeline-ukraine.org
Since the start of the invasion, Ukraine’s health infrastructure has been systematically targeted. The World Health Organization verified 260 attacks on medical facilities in the first 100 days of the conflict. By July 2024, Human Rights Watch reported 1,736 hospitals and clinics damaged or destroyed. The World Bank estimated in 2024 total recovery costs at €506 billion—nearly three times Ukraine’s 2024 GDP.
- Period: 2022
- Location: The Netherlands - Amsterdam
- Website: http://www.humannaturefilms.com
The Toon Beeld Foundation produces in-depth documentaries and portraits in collaboration with Human Nature Films. The films funded demonstrate the professional and communal approach of female coffee farmers in Rwanda to Dutch coffee lovers. Distribution with trailers and brochure is foreseen.
- Period: 2021 - now
- Location: Ukraine
- Website: http://www.houseofanimals.nl
House of Animals tracks down and exposes abuses of animals and brings animal welfare regularly to people's attention
- Period: 2021 & 2022
- Location: Kenya - Kajiado
- Website: http://www.niceplacefoundation.org
Nice Place is a unique leadership Academy, and shelter centre in the Kajiado district in the Maasai area in Kenya. The centre provides a safe learning environment for young women and girls at risk of being circumcised or of being married off as a child.
- Period: 2021 - 2024
- Location: The Netherlands - Amsterdam
- Website: http://www.oudgeleerdjonggedaan.nl
The Oud Geleerd Jong Gedaan Foundation strives for lifelong learning as the norm for everyone, also seniors, by organizing online and local lectures taught by students from colleges and universities. The motto is connecting young and old, personal growth is not dependent on age.
- Period: 2021
- Location: The Netherlands - Naarden
- Website: http://www.huisvandestadnaarden.nl
Town Hall Naarden will get a new destination as House of the Town. The municipality of Gooise Meren, owner of the monument, and Stichting Huis van de Stad Naarden have set out the arrangements and conditions in a written agreement.
- Period: 2021
- Location: Malawi
- Website: http://www.devecon.co.za
After two decades of neglect, rehabilitation of the Lilongwe Nature sanctuary (166 hectares) has started with financial support from IFAW.
- Period: Period: 2021 – Now
- Location: Russian
- Website: Http://www.stichtingpotamos.org
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia briefly entered an era of press freedom. That progress slowed down after the Yeltsin-era and has been sharply reversed since the invasion of Ukraine – making independent journalism increasingly dangerous and illegal. Many journalists had to flee their country after 24 February 2022.
- Period: 2021
- Location: The Netherlands - Amsterdam
- Website: http://www.ingeborgdouwesstichting.nl
The Ingeborg Douwes Foundation stands for psychosocial help for cancer patients and their loved ones, for young and old, regardless of religion, culture and political persuasion.
- Period: 2021
- Location: The Netherlands - Muiderberg
- Website: http://www.gnr.nl
The Goois Natuurreservaat, supported in part by the contribution from Stichting De Boomgaard, was able to purchase the Kocherbos in Muiderberg. Kocherbos, an 8.5-hectare nature reserve.
- Period: 2020
- Location: Beirut, Lebanon
- Website: https://www.facebook.com/WomensProgramsAssociation
The Nour Center is an Educational Center for Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Founded in 2013 it aims to meet the educational needs of newly arrived Syrian children and families in Burj El Barajneh.
- Period: 2021 – 2024
- Location: Nepal
- Website: https://www.biocompnepal.com
Biocomp is active in Nepal in recycling organic waste into compost. End 2024 it opened a recycling plant to reprocess low-grade plastics into building materials.
- Period: 2020
- Location: The Netherlands/Greece
With the grant, 600 Waka-Waka solar power banks and lights were distributed in no time to 1.500 people.
- Period: 2020
- Location: Lebanon
The devastating explosion of the National Port of Beirut has killed at least 154-200 persons, injured more than 6,000 people and displaced 300,000 people including 80,000 children, as reported by UNICEF.
- Period: 2020
- Location: The Netherlands, Beesel
- Website: https://www.drentslandschap.nl/natuurgebieden
Landgoed (estate) Heidenheim is an old estate with probable origins around 1650. It consists of old avenues, visual axes, a mirror pond with a motte, which used to be a spiral path with a cave and a hermit's hut.
- Period: 2019
- Location: Russia
- Website: https://www.stichting2oktober.org/
The mission of Stichting 2 Oktober is to support independent journalism in Russia and the CIS countries. Freedom of the press and freedom of information are vital for gathering and distributing reliable, fact-based news, making this available to everyone.
- Period: 2019
- Location: The Netherlands - Amsterdam
The C ("see") stands for really "seeing" and investigating the diverse city of Amsterdam, the neighborhoods and its inhabitants. With C-AMSTERDAM LIVE, the organisers were keen to create an online platform for local content, later narrowed the initiative with C-RESEARCH and investigated the the option to replace AT5, the local TV broadcaster of Amsterdam.
- Period: 2019
- Location: The Netherlands - Rotterdam
- Website: http://www.dirkkuytfoundation.nl
The Dirk Kuyt Foundation focuses on sports for the dis- and less abled people. From G-football to sailing and from wheelchair tennis to billiards for people with Parkinson. After all, sport not only has a physical function, but also plays an important role in social integration.
- Period: 2019
- Location: France - La Garde-Freinet
With the grant of Stichting de Boomgaard and other contributors, restoration of the windmill took place, in order to entrust it to a professional miller, and educate children and adults.
- Period: 2019 - now
- Location: South Africa
- Website: https://www.ndlovucaregroup.co.za
Ndlovu Care Group, founded by Hugo Tempelman, builds healthy, resilient communities in rural Limpopo, South Africa. Its Child Care & Youth Development program supports vulnerable children families through education, nutrition, and skills development, with initiatives like ECD centres, food gardens, and Ndlovu-AFAS Farm.
- Period: 2018
- Location: The Netherlands - Amsterdam
LittleBitz was a social start-up, powered by committed individuals and supported by sponsors, organisations and networks from the public and the private sector.
- Period: 2018
- Location: The Netherlands - Haarlem
- Website: https://nieuwbestuur.nl/
The Dutch Circular Leadership Conference took place at CIRCL on 28 November 2019. A unique network of leaders in the Netherlands came together under one roof.
- Period: 2018
- Location: Russia
- Website: http://generationp.themoscowtimes.com
The Moscow Times produced two multi-media projects:
- The first project was about the generation of young people who grow up in Russia under President Putin
- The second about Mothers and Daughters and the changing role of women in Russia.
- Period: 2017 & 2018
- Location: The Netherlands - Utrecht
- Website: https://www.spierenvoorspieren.nl/
In the Netherlands 20,000 children live with a rare muscle disease: a full football stadium. Spieren voor Spieren (muscles for muscles) aims to help all children with muscle diseases.
- Period: 2016 & 2017
- Location: Malawi
Kasungu Elephant Foundation (KEF) in collaboration with Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi initiated first steps to introduce Permaculture farming in M'ndaka village on the boundary of Kasungu National Park (KNP).
- Period: 2016
- Location: The Netherlands - Beesel
- Website: https://www.draaksteken.nl/
Once every seven years, the Limburg village of Beesel is under the spell of the legend of Saint George and the dragon. This compelling battle between good and evil is brought to life in a theatrical way in a grand open air spectacle.
- Period: 2015
- Location: Ghana
The Kofi Annan School (KAS) Foundation committed to build a Junior Secondary School (JSS) in Ajumako-Afranse in the autumn of 2015. The Foundation in that village helped earlier to build a nursery school, a primary school, a technical workshop with a toilet block and a six-classroom school for further education.
- Period: 2015
- Location: USA
Fashion Positive provides accreditation for five key areas of waste reduction in material health, material reutilisation, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship and social fairness.
The trainee used these ideas in set design and management in the film industry, which offers a world to win for circular use of materials.
- Period: 2015
- Location: UK
- Website: https://iwpr.net/
IWPR gives a voice to citizens, journalists and human rights activists in war zones and countries in transition. IWPR trains and provides platforms for local reporters, strengthening the institutional capacity of local media and community groups, to create space for a locally constructive debate.
- Period: 2015
- Location: Kenya
- Website: https://africanslumjournal.com
Its mission is to empower young reporters to become the voice of the community and to contribute to the living standards in informal settlements. NCMH helps youngsters from the slums to build up a career in the production of filmed content and supports them to obtain a sustainable source of income so that they can support their families.
- Period: 2015
- Location: Kenya
- Website: http://www.kuruwitukenya.org
Kuruwitu Conservation and Welfare Association was set up in 2003 by members of the community, concerned about the degradation of their seas. Over-fishing, climate change and uncontrolled fish and coral collection by the aquarium trade needed to be addressed before the marine ecosystem was damaged beyond repair.
- Period: 2015, 2016, 2018 & 2019
- Location: Suriname
- Website: http://www.stdons.nl
In March 2015 the d’ONS and the country's Forest Management (LBB) from Suriname, launched a pilot project for volunteers, in addition to the regular game wardens, to protect the sea turtles on the beach of the vulnerable Matapica Wetlands.
- Period: 2015
- Location: South Africa
- Website: https://www.tjommie.nl/
The Ndlovu Youth Choir, a successful youth choir from South Africa, founded in 2009, is an opportunity for talented young people to escape the troubles in the townships.
Many of these children have been affected by the HIV / AIDS epidemic, their parents have died or they themselves are infected with HIV. Some have been raped, assaulted, drug addicted, victims of crime or become criminals themselves in order to survive.