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Who received subsidies and aid from the Flemish, Wallonia-Brussels, federal and European governments, by register, year and programme.

Flemish government, subsidy register · Subsidies: awarded and paid, per year

Awarded
€2.09bn
in euro, as the register states it
Paid
€1.91bn
a different amount from awarded, not to be added
Recipients
2,952
legal entities with an enterprise number
Entries
11,102
lines in the register

The figures cover all years (2022 to 2025). Each year is the year the register states the support for. Shown are the legal entities with an enterprise number, together 98% of the register's "awarded" amount.

Largest recipients

You see the 5 largest of 2,952 legal entities, ranked by awarded.

  1. Stad Mechelen Public body · Antwerp · Sports and recreation · 2022 to 2025Largest of 91 programmes: Vlaams Gemeentefonds
    €326.7mpaid €301.7m257 entries
  2. Natuurpunt Beheer, vereniging voor natuurbeheer en landschapszorg in Vlaanderen Non-profit or foundation · Antwerp · Libraries, archives and museums · 2022 to 2025Largest of 34 programmes: Aankoopsubsidie met het oog op erkenning als natuurreservaat
    €164.3mpaid €144.5m110 entries
  3. Stad Dendermonde Public body · East Flanders · Sports and recreation · 2022 to 2025Largest of 57 programmes: Vlaams Gemeentefonds
    €106.1mpaid €101.7m148 entries
  4. Stad Lommel Public body · Limburg · Sports and recreation · 2022 to 2025Largest of 43 programmes: Vlaams Gemeentefonds
    €66.8mpaid €66.0m114 entries
  5. Stad Aarschot Public body · Flemish Brabant · Sports and recreation · 2022 to 2025Largest of 33 programmes: Vlaams Gemeentefonds
    €56.6mpaid €52.0m87 entries

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Per year

The year is the year the register states the support for. Click a year to filter.

Awarded Paid
  1. €522.0m 2022 2022, Awarded €522,003,807, Paid €395,935,993, 1,661 recipients
  2. €506.5m 2023 2023, Awarded €506,545,675, Paid €481,307,553, 1,527 recipients
  3. €531.0m 2024 2024, Awarded €531,049,448, Paid €510,626,400, 1,526 recipients
  4. €535.4m 2025 2025, Awarded €535,375,966, Paid €525,456,606, 1,691 recipients

Schemes

384 in view
  1. Vlaams Gemeentefonds €429.8m 8 recipients
  2. Professionele kunsten: Werkingssubsidie voor een kunstenorganisatie voor een periode van 5 jaar (Kunstendecreet 2021) €205.5m 160 recipients
  3. Subsidies voor sportfederaties en organisaties voor sportieve vrijetijdsbesteding €128.6m 62 recipients
  4. Subsidies voor topsport aan topsportfederaties en andere structurele partners €77.9m 37 recipients
  5. Professionele kunsten: Werkingssubsidie voor een professionele kunstenorganisatie (Kunstendecreet 2013) €72.0m 153 recipients
  6. Professionele kunsten: Werkingssubsidie voor een kunstenorganisatie voor een periode van 10 jaar (Kunstendecreet 2021) €68.9m 12 recipients
  7. Professionele kunsten: Werkingssubsidie voor een kunstinstelling (Kunstendecreet 2021) €68.8m 4 recipients
  8. Roerend cultureel erfgoed: Werkingssubsidie voor een collectiebeherende organisatie (Cultureelerfgoeddecreet 2021) €59.4m 22 recipients
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You see the 12 largest of 384. Search a word of the name, or download the full list: CSV

Conditions and calls are not in the register. The register itself: Flemish government, subsidy register (opens the source's website)

Funders · agency

top 10 of 41
  1. Departement Cultuur, Jeugd en Media €792.3m 893 recipients
  2. Agentschap Binnenlands Bestuur €586.0m 71 recipients
  3. Sport Vlaanderen €263.8m 469 recipients
  4. DAB Fonds voor Preventie en Sanering inzake Leefmilieu en Natuur €195.4m 60 recipients
  5. Toerisme Vlaanderen €64.3m 54 recipients
  6. Departement Omgeving €29.4m 37 recipients
  7. Onroerend Erfgoed €25.6m 79 recipients
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Policy area

top 10 of 11
  1. Cultuur, Jeugd, Sport en Media €1.07bn 1,338 recipients
  2. Kanselarij, Bestuur, Buitenlandse Zaken en Justitie €664.6m 162 recipients
  3. Omgeving €253.7m 167 recipients
  4. Welzijn, Volksgezondheid en Gezin €33.9m 69 recipients
  5. Economie Wetenschap en Innovatie €20.7m 1,328 recipients
  6. Werk en Sociale Economie €20.5m 288 recipients
  7. Werk, Economie, Wetenschap, Innovatie, Landbouw en Sociale Economie €17.9m 244 recipients
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By sector

  1. RHealth and social work €22.64bn 6,344 recipients
  2. PPublic administration €16.84bn 675 recipients
  3. HTransport and storage €5.24bn 4,186 recipients
  4. IAccommodation and food service €3.40bn 5,251 recipients
  5. TOther services €3.03bn 4,133 recipients
  6. EWater and waste €2.75bn 430 recipients
  7. OAdministrative and support services €2.72bn 6,533 recipients
  8. QEducation €2.54bn 1,675 recipients
  9. NProfessional and technical services €2.32bn 21,086 recipients
  10. SArts, sports and recreation €2.09bn 2,952 recipients
  11. 93Sports and recreation €955.9m 1,362 recipients
  12. 90Creative and performing arts €721.4m 1,420 recipients
  13. 91Libraries, archives and museums €416.7m 118 recipients
  14. 92Gambling and betting €1.0m 52 recipients
  15. MReal estate €2.06bn 3,836 recipients
  16. CManufacturing €1.73bn 7,337 recipients
  17. DEnergy €1.68bn 146 recipients
  18. Activity unknown €1.34bn 6,739 recipients
  19. GWholesale and retail trade €764.7m 15,757 recipients
  20. LFinance and insurance €570.3m 4,094 recipients
  21. FConstruction €494.3m 14,109 recipients
  22. AAgriculture, forestry and fishing €383.6m 3,762 recipients
  23. UHouseholds €331.9m 34 recipients
  24. KTelecoms and IT €270.9m 4,890 recipients
  25. JPublishing and media €219.2m 750 recipients
  26. VExtraterritorial organisations €44.8m 6 recipients
  27. BMining and quarrying €1.4m 27 recipients

The sector is the main activity in NACE-BEL 2025 per the KBO.

By region

  1. Flanders €1.80bn 2,711 recipients
  2. Brussels €297.7m 227 recipients
  3. Wallonia €194,109 9 recipients
  4. Outside Belgium or unknown €180,825 5 recipients

The region is that of the registered office.

Kind of organisation

  1. Non-profits and foundations €1.27bn 1,353 recipients
  2. Public bodies €767.7m 76 recipients
  3. Companies €51.8m 1,519 recipients
  4. Other legal forms €9.9m 4 recipients

The kind follows from the legal form in the KBO.

Method and sources

The register (2022 to 2025) holds 398,588 entries. 382,470 of them are shown, 98% of the "awarded" amount. These are the recipients with an enterprise number that are legal entities. Not shown: 1,962 without an enterprise number, 14,156 with a number no longer (or never) in the open KBO data.

Awarded and paid are two different amounts and are never added. Corrections appear as negative amounts in the register.

The Flemish register publishes the names of its schemes, bodies and policy domains in Dutch only: they appear here as it publishes them.

The register at its source: Flemish government, subsidy register (opens the source's website)

The figures come from five public registers, updated every night: the Flemish subsidy register, the subsidy cadastre of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, the federal government's financial transfers (FPS BOSA), the European Commission's Financial Transparency System and the CORDIS research database. The figures are as the register publishes them. Checked adds them up per recipient, year and programme, within one register.

The registers do not count the same money. They hold awarded and paid subsidies, payments, invoiced transfers, attributed shares of EU commitments and contributions to research projects. So one register is shown at a time, never a total across registers.

Only legal entities with an enterprise number appear in the lists. Natural persons and sole traders are not shown, even where the register states their number. They do count in the register's coverage.

Last updated on 3 November 2026.