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Flemish government, subsidy register

Subsidies: awarded and paid, per year

The register (2022 to 2025) holds 398,588 entries. This explorer shows 384,853 of them, 98% of the "awarded" amount: the recipients with an enterprise number that are legal entities. Not shown: 1,919 without an enterprise number, 11,816 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 register at its source: Flemish government, subsidy register (opens the source's website)

Arts, sports and recreation Clear all filters
Awarded
€2.11bn
in euro, as the register states it
Paid
€1.92bn
a different amount from awarded, not to be added
Recipients
2,954
legal entities with an enterprise number
Entries
11,135
lines in the register

All years (2022 to 2025); the year is the year the register states the support for. In view: 98% of the register's "awarded" amount, the legal entities with an enterprise number.

Per year

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

Awarded Paid
  1. €524.4m 2022 2022, Awarded €524,386,833, Paid €398,000,783, 1,662 recipients
  2. €509.0m 2023 2023, Awarded €508,951,458, Paid €483,841,165, 1,530 recipients
  3. €534.6m 2024 2024, Awarded €534,556,121, Paid €513,961,574, 1,531 recipients
  4. €539.0m 2025 2025, Awarded €538,953,145, Paid €529,133,364, 1,691 recipients

Schemes

383 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) €64.6m 23 recipients
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  1. Aankoopsubsidie met het oog op erkenning als natuurreservaat €58.7m 2 recipients
  2. Subsidie beheer GBN €54.0m 15 recipients
  3. Roerend cultureel erfgoed: Werkingssubsidie voor een cultureelerfgoedconvenant (Cultureelerfgoeddecreet 2017) €38.7m 30 recipients
  4. Regularisatiepremies contingentgesco's lokale besturen €35.5m 14 recipients

The 12 largest of 383. Search a word of the name above, or take the full list: CSV

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

Who pays · agency

top 10 of 41
  1. Departement Cultuur, Jeugd en Media €804.1m 896 recipients
  2. Agentschap Binnenlands Bestuur €586.0m 71 recipients
  3. Sport Vlaanderen €263.8m 471 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 €25.4m 78 recipients
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  1. Opgroeien regie €24.3m 58 recipients
  2. Fonds voor Innoveren en Ondernemen €23.6m 1,336 recipients
  3. Departement Werk en Sociale Economie €20.4m 290 recipients

Policy area

top 10 of 11
  1. Cultuur, Jeugd, Sport en Media €1.08bn 1,343 recipients
  2. Kanselarij, Bestuur, Buitenlandse Zaken en Justitie €664.6m 162 recipients
  3. Omgeving €253.6m 165 recipients
  4. Welzijn, Volksgezondheid en Gezin €33.9m 70 recipients
  5. Economie Wetenschap en Innovatie €20.7m 1,326 recipients
  6. Werk en Sociale Economie €20.5m 290 recipients
  7. Werk, Economie, Wetenschap, Innovatie, Landbouw en Sociale Economie €17.9m 245 recipients
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  1. Financiën en Begroting €7.5m 8 recipients
  2. Onderwijs en Vorming €4.9m 7 recipients
  3. Mobiliteit en Openbare Werken €4.1m 34 recipients

By sector

  1. RHealth and social work €22.66bn 6,373 recipients
  2. PPublic administration €16.53bn 673 recipients
  3. HTransport and storage €5.24bn 4,194 recipients
  4. IAccommodation and food service €3.40bn 5,291 recipients
  5. TOther services €3.00bn 4,136 recipients
  6. OAdministrative and support services €2.83bn 6,544 recipients
  7. EWater and waste €2.77bn 434 recipients
  8. QEducation €2.49bn 1,677 recipients
  9. NProfessional and technical services €2.32bn 21,106 recipients
  10. SArts, sports and recreation €2.11bn 2,954 recipients
  11. 93Sports and recreation €955.9m 1,366 recipients
  12. 90Creative and performing arts €721.4m 1,420 recipients
  13. 91Libraries, archives and museums €428.6m 116 recipients
  14. 92Gambling and betting €1.0m 52 recipients
  15. MReal estate €2.03bn 3,834 recipients
  16. CManufacturing €1.73bn 7,371 recipients
  17. DEnergy €1.68bn 148 recipients
  18. Activity unknown €1.34bn 7,232 recipients
  19. GWholesale and retail trade €1.08bn 15,875 recipients
  20. LFinance and insurance €595.3m 4,138 recipients
  21. FConstruction €497.5m 14,160 recipients
  22. AAgriculture, forestry and fishing €384.6m 3,777 recipients
  23. UHouseholds €331.9m 34 recipients
  24. KTelecoms and IT €273.2m 4,921 recipients
  25. JPublishing and media €216.7m 749 recipients
  26. VExtraterritorial organisations €44.8m 6 recipients
  27. BMining and quarrying €1.4m 27 recipients

Main activity in NACE-BEL 2025 per the KBO.

By region

  1. Flanders €1.81bn 2,714 recipients
  2. Brussels €297.7m 228 recipients
  3. Wallonia €194,109 9 recipients
  4. Outside Belgium or unknown €29,285 3 recipients

By registered office.

Kind of organisation

  1. Non-profits and foundations €1.27bn 1,356 recipients
  2. Public bodies €779.7m 77 recipients
  3. Companies €51.8m 1,518 recipients
  4. Other legal forms €9.8m 3 recipients

By legal form in the KBO.

Largest recipients

The 5 largest of 2,954 legal entities, ranked by awarded.

CSV
  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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How these figures are counted

Every night Checked reads five public registers: 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: awarded and paid subsidies, payments, invoiced transfers, attributed shares of EU commitments and contributions to research projects. That is why this page shows one register at a time and no 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 coverage above.

Last read on 1 October 2026.

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