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Activities of membership organisations

Current registrations 156division 94: 9,774
Starters, 12 months 10.6 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Employment (FTE) 42323 employers · latest accounts
Median age 22.3 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 48.1%75 of 156 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Filed accounts

NACE 94920 · financial year 2025 · 30 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
31.5%
division 63.6% · Belgium 46.1%
Median equity
€326,634
division €579,014 · Belgium €98,350
Negative equity
16.7%
division 4.7% · Belgium 12.4%
Median liquidity
3.90
division 4.75 · Belgium 1.66
Missing or 90 days late
3.1%
of 32 companies with annual accounts · division 8.9% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year2025
Median solvency31.5%

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Spread across the country

by region and province · 152 of 156 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Brussels 84 · 55.3%
  • Wallonia 26 · 17.1%
  • Flanders 26 · 17.1%
  • Abroad 16 · 10.5%
fewer moremax 84

Largest employers

NACE 94920 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 FONDS EUROPEEN POUR LA DEMOCRATIEBrussels 79.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 CONSEIL DES COMMUNES ET RÉGIONS D'EUROPEBrussels 34.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 PARTI SOCIALISTE EUROPEENBrussels 29.8 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 RaakSchaerbeek 29.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 UnitasBrussels 28.0 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 16 companies
  • 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 13
  • 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 3

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 94: Membership organisations

Related activities

7 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Other membership organisations94999 3,122 113 1 4,628
Activities of religious organisations94910 2,023 10 2 1,070
Youth work associations94991 682 11 0 1,875
Activities of membership organisations94994 477 10 2 924
Activities of membership organisations94992 442 16 0 1,214
Activities of membership organisations94993 379 12 0 903
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Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Activities of membership organisations94995 283 7 1 988

Bankruptcies per year in division 94

Per year20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies32166940354229311719
Jobs lost72288755495053432339

2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 94

958 employers
Median
€78,700
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€63,300 to €99,500
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
15 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €78,300 €60,800 to €100,200 475
10 to 49 FTE €77,800 €64,400 to €95,700 418
50 to 249 FTE €90,100 €69,400 to €109,700 65

1 of the 8,467 companies in NACE division 94 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: United States (1). Together they employ 22 of the division's 17,290 FTE: 0.1%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €1.06bn awarded 842 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Sociaal-cultureel volwassenenwerk: Werkingssubsidie voor een sociaal-culturele volwassenenorganisatie met een werking in Vlaanderen en Brussel (Decreet Sociaal-cultureel Volwassenenwerk 2017)
  • Federal transfers 521.0m amount as published 190 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Ondersteuning aan de bijdrage van de organisaties van de civiele maatschappij en institutionele actoren in de realisatie van de doelen van de gemeenschappelijke strategische kaders (cf. art. 2.14.6 en 2.14.10 van de wetsbepalingen)
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €410.7m paid 738 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions aux centres de jeunes : fonctionnement et intervention dans la rémunération des animateurs (décret du 20 juillet 2000)
  • EU budget €1.09bn attributed share 299 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument, Global Europe
  • EU research €394.5m EU contribution 228 recipients · 2007 to 2027 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Activities of membership organisations

Balance sheet and result. Liquidity of 3.90 is above Belgium's 1.66. 16.7% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. Solvency of 31.5% is below Belgium's 46.1%.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.0% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Brussels holds 61.8% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 22.3 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 2.6% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 202 of the 423 FTE: 47.6%.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 08-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 94920 exists.

The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,474 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,509 registrations publish no activity.

Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.