Corporate Operations
Senior Vice President: Wilhelm-Friedrich Uhr
Corporate Operations aims to ensure accuracy and accountability, coordinate financial and human resources, and make the foundation more cost-effective and efficient on an ongoing basis. It consists of the departments Finance & Tax/Asset Management, Human Resources & Legal, Controlling, IT & AI, Services and Event Management.
Total expenditures
Preliminary expenditures for the 2025 fiscal year totaled €76.2 million. Due to higher expenditures for our projects, on the one hand, and a reduction in contributions to affiliated institutions as planned, on the other, overall costs remained unchanged from the previous year. Since its inception, the Bertelsmann Stiftung has made approximately €2.1 billion available for nonprofit activities.
Program expenditures
In its 2025 fiscal year, the Bertelsmann Stiftung invested €42.9 million directly in its program activities, an increase of €1.8 million over the previous year.
Affiliated nonprofit institutions
In 2025, the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s contributions to affiliated nonprofit institutions decreased by approximately €1.9 million from the previous year to €13.5 million. This is due to the planned reduction in contributions to several the affiliated institutions that is reflective the institutions’ financial needs.
