Larger donations
IDFA shares stories with the world through creative documentary films and offers a stage to filmmakers from countries where freedom of expression is under threat. To achieve all this, we need your help through donations, small and large.
Support IDFA starting from €5,000 in the following way
As a Patron, you support IDFA's education programs for school children, you help non-Western filmmakers produce their films with the IDFA Bertha Fund, and you support IDFA DocLab, the place for experimenting with documentary and new media. Our Private Donations Manager will explore the right benefits together with you.
Another special way to contribute is to support the production of a specific film. Donations are accepted from individuals or groups. Splitting the donation amongst five friends, for example, means supporting the project with €3,500 each. In this way, you contribute to a story that touches you in a special way.
Support an IDFA Bertha Fund film project starting from €25,00
The IDFA Bertha Fund supports independent filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Oceania, where documentary filmmakers are often at risk. Filmmakers are supported with funding and training, receive personal guidance, and get access to the Fund’s network of worldwide documentary professionals.
With your help, we can bring films such as Five Broken Cameras, Last Men in Aleppo, and Sonita—all created with support from the IDFA Bertha Fund—to a large audience.
As a token of appreciation for your support, you will receive:
• Your name on the closing credits (if desired)
• 10 free tickets for the IDFA screening of the film that you support
• Meet and greet with the filmmaker in the Netherlands if the film premieres at IDFA
• 20 free tickets for regular screenings during the festival
• Invitation to the Special Friends Dinner in October where the festival directors discuss the highlights of the festival
• Exclusive access to the festival opening in Amsterdam’s Carré theater
• Access to two special previews in Pathé Tuschinski (in May and September)
• Priority booking during ticket sales
• The program magazine in print
With a named fund you support the IDFA Bertha Fund on a structural basis. A named fund can best be described as a good cause within a good cause. You set up a named fund with a designated objective that fits within the overall objective of the IDFA Bertha Fund.
IDFA Bertha Fund: Supporting filmmakers from non-Western countries
Since 1998, the IDFA Bertha Fund has supported filmmakers from rom Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Oceania. A contribution from the Fund helps these filmmakers with the development and research of their project, production, editing, and making their urgent and powerful stories heard in their own country and beyond. We are convinced that these films appeal to an involved audience and that is why we ask you to participate.
As a private individual or a company, you can structurally support the IDFA Bertha Fund by setting up a named fund. You decide on the name of the fund and the specific purpose. Consider, for examples, supporting freedom of expression in countries where it’s under threat, growing the number of women filmmakers, or supporting films from a specific continent or about a specific subject that you find important. Together we’ll look into how to get you involved.
The IDFA Bertha Fund ensures that the money in the named fund is spent for the specific purpose. It also takes care of the administrative handling so that the named fund benefits from the knowledge and experience present at the IDFA Bertha Fund, without being burdened by organizational and administrative issues. The IDFA Bertha Fund is responsible for the organization and the costs of setting up a named fund.
Fiscally advantageous
IDFA is a public benefit organization (ANBI) and therefore you do not pay any donation or inheritance tax with your named fund. You can choose to donate while still alive or after death.
An example for when you are tax liable in the Netherlands: you would like to donate a sum of €50,000. To transfer the assets to the Fund, you have a periodical notarial donation recorded at the notary. You donate €10,000 to the Fund annually. With a periodic donation you are not bound by the legal thresholds and the full amount is tax deductible. Depending on your income, you get 34% to 52% back from taxes. If you fall into the high tax bracket and you pay a total of € 50,000, after the income tax return you will receive €26,000 from the tax authorities and you will ultimately pay €24,000 yourself. This advantage does not exist when you set up a fund in your will.
Want to learn more? We are happy to discuss the options with you and to help you through setting up the named fund through our solicitor or your own solicitor. Contact Marloes Janssen, Private Donations Manager (marloesjanssen@idfa.nl, +31 (0)6-29 52 89 41) or Isabel Arrate Fernandez, Managing Director of the IDFA Bertha Fund (isabel@idfa.nl, +31 (0)20-26 20 768).
You can also include IDFA in your will. Inheritances in the form of a bequest or inheritance can be easily arranged through the solicitor. We would be happy to discuss the options with you or bring you into contact with our solicitor without any obligation. Our Private Donations Manager Marloes Janssen is happy to help you. You can contact us at +31 (0)20-26 20 824 / +31 (0)6-29 52 89 41 or marloesjanssen@idfa.nl.
Donations to IDFA can be made without the intervention of a civil-law notary in one go or via a periodic donation that you receive from IDFA to IDFA or the IDFA Bertha Fund.
Named funds or legacies in the form of a bequest or inheritance are easy to arrange through the notary. It is important that the name is entered correctly:
Statutory name: Stichting International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam
Registered office: Amsterdam
Visiting address: Frederiksplein 52, 1017 XN
Chamber of Commerce: 41193868
If you opt for a donation to the IDFA Bertha Fund, this is the correct name according to the statutes:
Statutory name: IDFA Fund Foundation
Registered office: Amsterdam
Visiting address: Frederiksplein 52, 1017XN
Chamber of Commerce: 33305176
You can choose to donate while alive or after death.
IDFA and the IDFA Bertha Fund are a 'public benefit institution' (ANBI) and therefore you do not pay any gift or inheritance tax with your Named Fund.
Making a donation or setting up a Living Fund also has tax advantages. If you pay income tax in the Netherlands, you can make use of the tax deductibility. This is possible by using a 5-year recurring donation agreement. The tax benefit can then amount to a maximum of 52% of the donation. With a one-off donation, your donation is tax deductible if the amount represents a minimum of 1% and a maximum of 10% of your taxable income.
RSIN number for income tax return 008551777
There is a special fund for American Friends of IDFA at the Netherland-America Foundation.
IDFA has established an 'American Friends of IDFA' fund with the Netherland-America Foundation (NAF), a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Gifts from US donors to our Friends Fund are therefore fully tax deductible. By supporting IDFA through the NAF, IDFA does not have to set up and manage its own foundation in the US, saving costs associated with bookkeeping, auditing, legal advice and filing annual tax returns.
Do you have questions or do you want to know more? We are happy to discuss the possibilities with you.
Do you have questions or do you need more information? We are happy to discuss all options with you.
Our Private Donations Manager Marloes Janssen is happy to help you. You can contact us at +31 (0)20-26 20 824 / +31 (0)6-29 52 89 41 or marloesjanssen@idfa.nl.
