Charitable organizations of Russia: list, information

About one and a half million charitable organizations and religious parishes are registered in the USA. Over 2% of the country's GDP is spent on donations. And 76% of this money from individuals. And a fairly large part of the charitable funds such a public fund sends abroad.

The statistics of the Russian Federation are much more modest. The lion's share of official donations is carried out by legal entities, with profits from financial and economic activities. There are no exact figures: the annual payments estimate ranges from 200 million to 1.5 billion US dollars. A lot of significant donations are provided by the largest Russian companies and banks.

What is a charitable organization?

According to the law, charitable organizations of Russia are non-profit organizations that have specific legal forms (public organizations, funds and institutions). As for the taxation of charitable organizations, they are similar to the rest of the non-profit (they are exempted from paying income tax on target revenues and have a number of benefits that apply to both the beneficiary and the benefactor).

The origin of charity

The first charitable organizations in Russia are considered to be monasteries, to which Prince Vladimir ordered to engage in "the contempt of those in need." Such a decree was issued in 988, and Ivan the Terrible created the first almshouse, which is the prototype of a modern charitable foundation. Funds for their activities were allocated from the state treasury. In addition, rich members of society were committed to giving alms. Peter the Great considered charity one of the important spheres of public life.

After the revolution of 1917 the charitable organizations of Russia were abolished, and all their property was transferred to the people. In recent years, charity has been developing at an accelerated pace. Perhaps this is due to the fact that citizens have become more sensitive to the problems of others.

Financing

A non-profit charitable organization must register with the authorities, submit reports on activities, reflect the funds raised and spent, which are not subject to taxation. She should use donations only for charitable purposes.

Donation is the most popular way of providing assistance. In the Russian Federation, a public aid fund can be financed from five sources:

• State aid;
• Grants, donations from individuals;
• Corporate funds of large business entities;
• Means of municipal authorities and entrepreneurs;
• Family and private funds are financed exclusively by private individuals.

Types of charities

In addition to the method of obtaining funds, Russian charitable organizations differ depending on the target audience:

• Charitable children's funds created to help different categories of children. They help orphans, invalids, children from low-income families, children who suffer from various diseases. The funds also provide grants for the education of gifted children;
• Funds to help the adult population, for example, people with various diseases, refugees, disabled people and so on;
• Charitable organizations to help the elderly, veterans, disabled and elderly patients, hospice patients.

They decided to entrust their money to a charitable foundation, but are not sure that they will go to the needy? In Russia there are various organizations that are based both by Russians and foreign investors. There are also charitable social programs of commercial organizations. Below, stable funds will be presented, which carry out charitable activities. They have personal sites and regularly report on the work done.

The main charitable organizations of Russia

COLLECTION (Union of Charitable Organizations of Russia) is 15 years of work, half a billion of raised funds, dozens of successful projects and thousands of needy people who received assistance from the fund. The collection is supported by well-known actors, sportsmen, politicians.

Another major charitable organization is the National Charitable Foundation, which was founded in 1999 on the initiative of President V.V. Putin.

Initially, the fund was called the "National Military Fund" and provided all possible assistance to servicemen of various ministries and departments of Russia, members of their families, veterans and other persons. In 2002, the fund was categorized as an organization that provides lump-sum humanitarian assistance.

Multi-purpose charitable organizations

• One of the major charitable foundations - the Union of Charitable Organizations of Russia unites more than two hundred different target areas, including volunteer and public programs. It provides assistance to a wide range of citizens.
• Also, a large fund in the charity market is ROSPAS. It helps people who have serious diseases. In the zone of his attention, immigrants, disabled people, orphans, large families and poor families.
• There are funds that carry out charitable activities at once for several categories of people in need. For example, the national charitable organization Dobro provides assistance to large families, disabled children, children with various diseases, orphans and those who suffer from drug addiction and alcoholism.

Charitable organizations that help children

• There are only children's charitable organizations such as Nastenka, Children of Mary, Children's Cottages, Happy Hearts and many others. They help children who have fallen into a difficult life situation: loss of parents, orphans, invalids, patients with serious illnesses, those who suffer from an innate disease.
• The All-Russian Charity-Russia Foundation unites more than a million individual entrepreneurs. It plays various grants and scholarships among young people and children, helps public funds for elderly homes, hospices and hospitals, and provides assistance to just citizens who apply.

Other funds

• A serious charitable organization is "Life". Its target audience is children with cancer, blood diseases. Donations are bought medicines, supplies, paid for research and diagnostics, chemotherapy courses, surgery, is provided material assistance to families.
• Charitable organizations of Russia, established by well-known people in the country: politicians, show business stars, businessmen. This is an additional influx of investors and those who wish to make a donation. The most famous fund of this category is "Give Life", which was established by popular actresses D. Korzun and Ch. Khamatova. Its goal is to help those suffering from cancer.
• Public charitable organizations that help people with disabilities, old people, veterans, people and patients of hospitals and hospices are the aid funds "Vera", "Old age for joy", "The collective of not indifferent people".
• In Russia there are also large charitable organizations of the world: the Soros Foundation, the International Women's Organization, the AIDS Foundation, and others.

To help is not easy, but very simple! This motto on the main site of the collection is the best expression of the willingness to accept donations from any indifferent person. After all, the sooner the funds go to the charity fund, the more chances to save someone's life.