Funders increasingly keen to help nonprofits ‘think beyond grants’
October 28, 2026
A group of leading Spanish nonprofits received less than half the number of donations in 2025 as they had the year before — but only lost 4.6% of their fundraising income.
And while the 2024 spike followed a deadly natural disaster in Spain, there was still good underlying growth between 2023 and 2025, according to data from the Observatorio del Fundraising, an initiative of EFA member Asociación Española de Fundraising (AEFr).
In 2023, the 26 organisations providing data to the Observatorio received 5.3m donations, worth €197.6m in total, with an average gift of €37.
In 2024, the floods drove the number of donations to 13.7m, more than two and a half times the previous year’s figure. The growth in income to €242.7m was still significant, while the average gift more than halved to less than €18.
In 2025, donations fell back to 5.5m, slightly above 2023’s level. However, the average gift recovered to €42, higher than before the floods, meaning income versus 2023 was up by 17.1%, at €231.5m.
Previously, data published by AEFr showed that a group of 13 nonprofits had raised more than €149m in response to the DANA meteorological event which caused huge floods in October 2024. The disaster claimed more than 220 lives, mostly in the eastern province of Valencia.
As Fundraising Europe detailed last year, the relief effort included more than 9,000 volunteers and 500 professionals, with more than 160,000 food kits, 40,000 hygiene kits and 5,000 kg of medical supplies delivered.
The article accompanying the new AEFr stats urges fundraisers to study their data closely, saying:
“An emergency like the one caused by the DANA can bring in people who have never donated, reactivate former donors or generate additional gifts from those who already give. Once the emergency has passed, it is worth knowing how many of those people give again, how often and in what way.”
