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Youth work associations

Current registrations 682division 94: 9,768
Starters, 12 months 111.6 per 100 · Belgium 8.8
Employment (FTE) 1,87582 employers · latest accounts
Median age 24.9 yearsBelgium 8.1 years

No bankruptcy in the past twelve months.

Filed accounts

NACE 94991 · financial year 2025 · 154 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
57.5%
division 63.6% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€10,501
division €9,679 · Belgium €16,539
Median equity
€338,036
division €579,014 · Belgium €98,485
Loss-making
28.9%
division 36.8% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
2.6%
division 4.7% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
4.3%
division 2.3% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
3.51
division 4.75 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
18.5%
financial year 2024, 151 filings · division 25.3% · Belgium 38.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 58.1%58.8%57.6%55.6%54.1%57.5%
Median net result €10,115€12,281€5,887€9,004€13,895€10,501

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
1
0.15% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
1
1.5 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
31-12-2024 Graffiti vzw
BE 0415.865.229

Every bankruptcy in division 94, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 679 of 682 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 279 · 41.1%
  • Wallonia 246 · 36.2%
  • Brussels 148 · 21.8%
  • Abroad 6 · 0.9%
fewer moremax 148

Largest employers

NACE 94991 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 ArktosLeuven 246 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 jesMolenbeek-Saint-Jean 104 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 KazouSchaerbeek 100 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 ARCHIPELIxelles 94.6 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 SCOUTS EN GIDSEN VLAANDERENAntwerp 77.4 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 63 companies
  • 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 34
  • 329.02 Socio-cultural sector 20
  • 329 Socio-cultural sector 4
  • 329.03 Socio-cultural sector 4
  • 302 Hotels and catering 3
  • 319.02 Educational and residential institutions 1

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 3,117 109 1 4,715
Activities of religious organisations94910 2,023 10 2 1,070
Activities of membership organisations94994 477 10 2 924
Activities of membership organisations94992 442 16 0 1,214
Activities of membership organisations94993 378 12 0 903
Activities of membership organisations94995 283 7 1 998
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Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Activities of membership organisations94920 156 1 0 423

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

957 employers
Median
€78,700
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€63,300 to €99,600
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 €64,500 to €95,700 417
50 to 249 FTE €90,100 €69,400 to €109,700 65

1 of the 8,465 companies in NACE division 94 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: United States (1). Together they employ 22 of the division's 17,387 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 €388.4m EU contribution 225 recipients · 2007 to 2027 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Youth work associations

Balance sheet and result. Liquidity of 3.51 is above Belgium's 1.66. 2.6% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. Return on equity of 4.3% is below Belgium's 15.9%.

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

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 24.9 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 0.4% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. In 12 months, 1.6 of 100 companies started, against 8.8 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 92% of the 87 NACE divisions.

Staff and filing. 18.5% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 623 of the 1,875 FTE: 33.2%.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 05-11-2026 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 94991 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 1,275,887 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,448 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.