Policy plan

POLICY

Policy plan Zeepaardje foundation

The foundation was established on July 30, 2018 by notary deed in Roermond. After the incorporation, a decision from the tax authorities is requested in order to obtain the status of a public benefit institution (hereinafter: ‘ANBI’). This decision was issued with the date December 22, 2018, as from July 31 th, 2018.

Goals foundation

The foundation aims to financially support projects and initiatives of a non-commercial nature, which contribute to improving the overall general well-being, and are specifically aimed at financially supporting institutions that support projects that focus on improving the world in the field of:

the welfare of children in the Netherlands, but also in the world. Not only by stimulating education, health care or by making the world more sustainable, but also by offering children a nice and safe environment;

the healing possibilities of the sick, dealing with the recovery of the sick as well as dealing with their illness;

stimulating the idea of ​​the need to organize the economy and society more sustainably, on the one hand by financing sustainable research and by supporting initiatives to make society aware of the need to deal with society more sustainably;

everything that in the broadest sense relates to health care, sustainability and children.

Explicitly, it is not a goal to make payments to the founder, or to directors of the foundation.

Anbi status

In the context of obtaining and maintaining the ANBI status, the foundation will use its outbound donations to other charitable organizations for 90% or more to institutions that have the ANBI status. In order to have the possibility in the future that the foundation will also directly develop activities with which it then wishes to support direct activities for the general good, this space has been taken in the statutory purpose description. If that is the case, this policy plan will be adjusted accordingly. In addition, consultation will be sought with the tax authorities. The foundation wants to provide clarity to its donors as well as to the institutions they are going to support about having and keeping the ANBI status.

Acquisition resources

The foundation expects – after the status of ANBI has been obtained – to receive a donation of € 100,000 per year, during at least a period of five years, commencing in 2018. In addition, the foundation will seek other donations by promoting the objectives to attract. To this end, she will endeavor to be appointed as heir or legatee.

Donation policy

The donation policy (outbound resources) is aimed at exclusively or almost exclusively using the funds received to support other ANBIs in the area of ​​children, health and sustainability. In order to be able to maintain this long-term, part of the funds received will not yet be donated, but in a number of years a (limited) continuity reserve will be built to also make donations to which it feels morally obliged to comply. case the incoming funds stagnate or end. The continuity reserve will have a maximum of the size of the incoming funds of the relevant or the last preceding year. It is emphatically not the intention that the foundation will do the ability to develop without carrying out the goals. When the board of the foundation decides to liquidate and liquidate the foundation, the positive capital will be used for other ANBIs. Should there be a positive balance during the liquidation, the board will include a residual interest in the articles of association for present (for 50%) the Toon Hermans Huis Roermond and (also for 50%) foundation Make a wish.

The donations made by the foundation are only based on the idea of ​​making the world better than it is now. The founders and the board members believe that the deeds of the foundation should speak for themselves; not the board members themselves. Therefore, the policy of the foundation is that the support by Stichting Zeepaardje can only be mentioned without the name of our foundation. With this in mind, the board strives to ensure that the foundation prefers to find and evaluates independent institutions that it wishes to support, and that the foundation does not receive (too many) unfounded requests from third-party institutions to receive support. In other words, ANBI-foundations can only apply for a donation when they are requested bij Stichting Zeepaardje to apply for a donation.

In order to objectify the assessment of institutions to which donations can be made, the board has drawn up a decision matrix. Currently the most essential elements in this assessment (these considerations are also referred to as matrix or assessment):

what impact does a donation have on the institution that receives the donation?

does the board consider the institution concerned controversial?

what is the estimate of the continuity of the institution that would receive the donation?

how professional is the institution concerned?

As the board builds up more experience, this matrix is ​​further optimized by adding better considerations to it. The matrix is ​​thus a “work in progress”.

If a board member proposes a possible institution, that member of the board examines the institution and, based on this assessment, indicates the outcome of that research. The meeting then discusses the assessment that has been carried out and questions the applicant. The board then decides by a simple majority of votes (in accordance with the articles of association).

The board follows how the beneficiary institution continues its activities when it has received a donation. The board also considers it important how the institution concerned acts if a donation is received. Every year, the board again assesses whether a beneficiary institution still scores favorably on the assessment, with the input of the underlying year weighing heavily on whether the institution in question will also be supported in the following year.

Because the board members of the foundation are all members of Service clubs when they are set up, and because requests and projects are regularly brought to the attention of such clubs in order to request funding, the foundation wants to clarify in advance the members of the board and those who ask the foundation for a contribution: the foundation will not respond to requests for donations (direct or indirect) from the Service clubs, regardless of whether the board members are connected to the service clubs concerned.

Board composition and successive directors

At the start, three board members join in next to the founders. The articles of association stipulate that the founders have been appointed for an indefinite period. The other board members are appointed for a period of three years, whereby a board member can be reappointed twice.

The board is aware that in the interest of the continuity of the foundation it is essential that the board gradually renews over time. It follows that it is not self-evident that a member of the board is automatically reappointed at the end of his term of office. Furthermore, the board will continuously pay attention to having potential new board members in the picture.

The founders have set up the foundation from their own social involvement. When they are no longer able or willing to fulfill their managerial duties, it is their wish that they are succeeded where possible by one or more of their children. The other board members must thereby ensure that they remain independent of the founders or their families so that the foundation does act with contributions and input from the founders or their family, but that the choices of the board of the foundation may deviate from what the founders stand for.

The articles of association stipulate that the foundation must have paid out its assets in accordance with the objective no later than 12 years after the death of the primary founders. The board can change the articles of association. When, for example, the founders are succeeded by their children and the then-acting board believes that they can remain relevant even after the death of the founders, the statutes can be changed on this point. The current board attaches importance to the fact that such an amendment to the articles of association is not taken lightly because it does not want the foundation to be maintained if the social relevance of the foundation is not guaranteed.