Financial transparency
Every euro entrusted to Entrepreneurs du Monde is tracked, audited and its use made public. Here is where our resources come from, how we use them, and the safeguards that govern our management.
Giving with confidence
Entrepreneurs du Monde has held the Don en Confiance label since 2009. Don en Confiance is an independent French body that monitors the proper use of donations.
The association has chosen to undergo this demanding review voluntarily, and to do so every year, in order to earn and retain this recognition, which requires compliance with five core principles:
- Respect for donors
- Transparency
- Commitment to effectiveness
- Integrity and disinterestedness
- Ethics, and social and environmental responsibility
Find out more: www.donenconfiance.org
Three complementary levels of oversight
Our management is governed by internal controls and by independent external scrutiny:
- Accounts certified by an external audit: our financial statements are audited every year by an independent statutory auditor appointed by our General Assembly. They are filed with the Journal Officiel, the French official gazette, and published in our annual report.
- Oversight by our public funding partners: Agence Française de Développement (the French development agency), the European Union, Expertise France and the local and regional authorities that fund us all exercise continuous oversight of how funds are used and of programme results.
- Internal procedures applied all the way to the field: our budget monitoring processes apply at head office and within the local organisations we support, with regular reporting of expenditure and performance indicators.
Our resources reach the field, and generate activity there
In 2025, 83% of our expenditure went to our social mission: field programmes, support to our local partners, innovation. That funding sets a wider dynamic in motion: the organisations we support generate €2.1M of their own operating income and €0.3M in direct grants.
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83% of our expenditure devoted to our social mission in 2025
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€2.1M generated in the field by the local organisations we support
Where our resources come from
In 2025, our operating resources reached €6,741K, up 10% on 2024. They come from two main sources, and the balance between them is a deliberate choice: private giving gives us independence and flexibility, public funding allows us to run programmes over several years.
43% private giving: €2,826K
Individuals, companies, corporate foundations and family foundations. This share is up 13% year on year. It remains the most valuable: it is what allows us to test, to adjust and to stay free in our operational choices.
51% public funding: €3,382K
Chiefly Agence Française de Développement, under our multi-year partnership agreement, together with Expertise France, the European Union, Monaco’s development cooperation and local authorities.
6% other resources
Recharges to programmes for the staff and international solidarity volunteers made available to them by Entrepreneurs du Monde.
What individual donations really represent
Some individual donations are collected by the Fondation Entrepreneurs du Monde Solidarité and then passed on to the association, where they appear under the foundations line. Traced back to their real origin, these donations amount to €794K in 2025, or 28% of private giving.
How we use them
Our operating expenses came to €6,676K in 2025. The share devoted to programmes was maintained and expanded, in field contexts that were at times difficult.
- 83% for our social mission. Grants paid to our programmes, technical support to local organisations, results monitoring. Grants to programmes reached €3,444K, up 8%.
- 7% running costs. Management, governance, support functions.
- 5% fundraising costs. Essential to keeping programmes running over time.
- 5% additions to provisions and impairments. Provisions for currency risk and provisions relating to the operating contexts of certain programmes. This is a prudent approach, decided by our Board of Directors, which protects the continuity of work already under way.
Where we work
In 2025, we paid €3,444K in grants to our programmes. Here is how that amount was distributed across the regions where we work.
- West and Central Africa: 80%, or €2,756K
- South-East Asia: 8%, or €283K
- France: 8%, or €286K
- Haiti: 4%, or €120K
This growing concentration on Africa, 80% against 70% in 2024, reflects the expansion of our programmes in Senegal, Guinea, Togo and Sierra Leone. In Haiti, the decrease is explained by the improved operational viability of our partner organisations, which are covering a growing share of their own costs despite highly constrained logistical and security conditions.
Read our reports
Our detailed annual accounts are set out in our annual report. The audit reports can be consulted below.
A question about our accounts?
Our reports don’t answer everything. If you would like clarification on a figure, a cost item or a line in our financial statements, write to us: we reply.