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699Swedish Postcode Foundation</li> 700 701 702 703<li>Wellspring Philanthropic Fund</li> 704</ul> 705 706 707 708<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There are several organisations who graciously support our work, but prefer not to be mentioned in public. We honour their wishes and express our sincere gratitude. The names of all these donors are known to our auditors.</p> 709 710 711 712<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Bellingcat also receives financial contributions from various companies as well as special discounts and in-kind donations such as software access and platform resources. </p> 713 714 715 716<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We would like to express our gratitude to the following organisations for their support: </p> 717 718 719 720<ul class="wp-block-list"> 721<li>Adobe</li> 722 723 724 725<li>Bitwarden</li> 726 727 728 729<li>Canva</li> 730 731 732 733<li>Cobra CRM</li> 734 735 736 737<li>Datayo</li> 738 739 740 741<li>Donorbox</li> 742 743 744 745<li>Dropbox</li> 746 747 748 749<li>Financial Times</li> 750 751 752 753<li>Google</li> 754 755 756 757<li>Hunchly</li> 758 759 760 761<li>Maltego</li> 762 763 764 765<li>Mapbox</li> 766 767 768 769<li>Mapcreator</li> 770 771 772 773<li>OSSO</li> 774 775 776 777<li>Oxylabsâ Project 4β</li> 778 779 780 781<li>Planet</li> 782 783 784 785<li>Plausible.io</li> 786 787 788 789<li>RiskIQ</li> 790 791 792 793<li>Salesforce</li> 794 795 796 797<li>Total Design</li> 798 799 800 801<li>Vizlegal</li> 802 803 804 805<li>Yubico</li> 806 807 808 809<li>Zoom</li> 810</ul> 811 812 813 814<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Funding principles</strong></p> 815 816 817 818<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Bellingcat does not solicit or accept funding or contributions directly from governments. Bellingcat can solicit or accept contributions from intergovernmental institutions such as the European Commission or the United Nations. Bellingcat can accept or solicit funding that is distributed by a private foundation that accepts government funds, so long as it is independent from any national government. We will not allow any funding relationship to constrain us from criticising any bodies or individuals that provide funds, exposing any wrongdoing in which said bodies or individuals may be involved or impact our editorial independence.</p> 819 820 821 822<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Bellingcat reserves the right to research any donor of an amount of â¬5,000 or more based on available open sources according to our principles.</p> 823 824 825 826<p class="wp-block-paragraph">You can review our full fundraising policy <a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/app/uploads/2025/02/Fundraising-and-gift-acceptance-policy.pdf">here</a>.</p> 827 828 829 830<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Support our Work</strong></p> 831 832 833 834<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Bellingcat offers a variety of ways to support our work. We are appreciative and grateful for every single cent donated. Please find general information on how to support us below. </p> 835 836 837 838<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If youâre considering another way to donate or encounter any issues when donating please donât hesitate to reach out to us via <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0662696867726f6968754664636a6a6f68616567722865696b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5e3a31303f2a3731302d1e3c3b32323730393d3f2a703d3133">[email protected]</span></a> and weâll be happy to support you. <br>If you are a foundation, non-profit or a company that would like to explore various funding possibilities with us, please contact us via <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0d6962636c796462637e4d6f68616164636a6e6c79236e6260"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3652595857425f5958457654535a5a5f58515557421855595b">[email protected]</span></a>. </p> 839 840 841 842<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Donations – One Time, Yearly or Monthly</strong></p> 843 844 845 846<p class="wp-block-paragraph">You may support our work by making a donation – as a one-off or recurring payment – via our <a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/donate/">online donation form</a> which offers a variety of currencies and payment options via credit card, direct debit and iDEAL. If youâd like to make a donation that is tax-deductible in the US, please choose âUnited Statesâ as country of residence in the donation form and your donation will go to the Bellingcat Us Inc., our 501c3 in the US.</p> 847 848 849 850<p class="wp-block-paragraph">If you would like to donate via wire transfer or to set up a direct debit from your bank account please use the following bank details:</p> 851 852 853 854<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Bellingcat Foundation in the Netherlands</strong> (<a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/app/uploads/2023/02/Bank-detail
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