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Funding

WISE has a yearly turnover of between € 200.000 and € 300.000, depending on the amount of campaigns and funded projects. Gifts to WISE are tax-deductable under Dutch law.

In 2012 we worked with a budget of € 200.000. About € 100.000 was spent on salaries, € 6000 on office rent, almost € 10.000 on organizational costs and the rest was completely spent on activities contributing to our mission; projects, campaigns, support for grassroots organizations, local activities, publications. 

Incomes come from a wide variety of sources; governmental subsidies for otherwise un-employed people (€ 25.000), project subsidies (€ 40.000), donations and incidental gifts (€ 110.000) subscription incomes of the Nuclear Monitor (€ 20.000), from sales of materials € 5.000).
Over twenty years ago WISE took residence in an former hospital building located in the centre of Amsterdam. Rents are very low because all users maintain the building in a system of self-management.  Even in difficult financial times we can always pay our rent. Too often we have seen colleague organizations getting into trouble because of their choice to rent a fancy office on a hot-spot. We get office furniture and equipment from richer colleague organizations or we buy second hand material.
This is our recipe for our extreme low overhead- and organizational costs. We prefer to spend our money on our mission; a world without nuclear energy.