We invite you to join our community
of Beneficiaries
We provide two pillars
of support:
The primary goal of financial support is to ensure the security and stability of funding for an organization's essential needs. The Leader's stipend allows them to resign from outside employment and fully focus on developing their organization. Depending on individual needs, the Foundation may also provide other material support.
The standard support period is 2–3 years. The ultimate goal is for the Beneficiary to become self-sufficient in their development and to scale their mission, at least doubling their organizational reach. The way we measure growth is agreed upon at the start of the support — usually based on the Beneficiary’s financial resources and/or turnover.
Every Beneficiary is paired with a Partner who provides ongoing monthly mentoring. These sessions focus on organizational leadership and long-term development. Support may include: forms and methods of operation, diversifying and scaling income streams, fundraising and financial strategy, people management, team-building, marketing, strategic goal-setting, performance tracking, and more. The mentoring is tailored to the Beneficiary’s unique needs and the specific stage of their growth.
Who We Help — and How
The goal of the Foundation is to provide direct financial and competency-based support to selected social organizations that have the highest potential for increasing the scale of their operations and achieving positive social outcomes.
Owoc Obfity Foundation supports selected organizations with strong potential to generate significant social impact. The expected outcome of our support is the joint achievement of planned social results: multiplying good, transforming the lives of individuals or groups, and growing in scale and influence. At the same time, we aim to support our Beneficiaries in such a way that enables — to the greatest extent possible — the return of funding back to the Foundation, increasing the Revolving Fund for Social Change, which will then serve the next generation of Beneficiaries.
The Foundation directs its offer toward social organizations that have been operating for at least 3 years, already working based on proven models, but now encountering significant organizational or financial barriers that prevent further development.
Our support is intended for organizational development, understood as strengthening the effectiveness of carrying out a social mission. The Leaders of supported organizations, together with a Foundation representative, define the challenges, goals, and key support areas. We also work together to formulate short- and long-term goals, as well as indicators that measure the achievement of desired results — these are monitored regularly.
A key element of the substantive mentoring program is that the organization's Leader and team receive support from an experienced Partner, who meets with them for 2–3 hours monthly throughout the entire support period, helping them pursue their goals.
Explore a Detailed
Case Study
Discover how our support contributed to the dynamic growth of the Institute for Integrated Prevention (IPZIN) — and hear from Szymon Grzelak, its founder and president.
How we select the organizations we support?
In the process of selecting social organizations that may receive support, the Owoc Obfity Foundation uses clear and detailed selection criteria. These criteria ensure that our support reaches organizations built on strong foundations, with real potential to bring lasting social change and scale their impact.The aspects we pay attention to include:
Tackling a significant social issue
Openness and accessibility of support
Scalability of solutions
Development potential and growth plans
Strong leadership and team motivation
Strategic growth and openness to innovation
Managerial competence
Financial stability
Measuring effectiveness, impact, and transparency
Willingness to learn and benefit from advisory support
Additional Complementary Criteria
The Foundation also takes the following into account when selecting potential Beneficiaries:
Alignment of activities with the mission and values of the Foundation — values we follow and seek to strengthen
Making decisions based on discernment and the most fruitful methods of action
we invite you to download the recruitment form for potential Beneficiaries of the Foundation.
Once completed, please send it to rekrutacja@owocobfity.org.
We accept applications on a rolling basis. Depending on our current capacity, you can expect a response within 2 weeks.
What we expect from our Beneficiaries in return?
We expect continuous monitoring of key performance indicators that reflect the effectiveness of the organization’s activities — including those that show the scale of impact, such as the number of people supported, number of initiatives, available funding, and other relevant measures demonstrating organizational growth.
Our support — including financial support — is aimed at multiplying the impact and at least doubling the scale of the organization’s operations.
Once this goal is reached and the organization gains independence in securing funds, the next aim of the support is to gradually enable the invested funds to return to the Owoc Obfity Foundation and be reused as part of the Social Change Working Capital — supporting the next generation of organizations.
That is why each organization that becomes a Beneficiary commits to returning, after reaching the minimum threshold of doubling its income (excluding Foundation support), 10% of all income exceeding that threshold on a monthly basis as a contribution to the Foundation’s Social Change Capital.
! Note: This is a conditional (after reaching the threshold) repayment of the nominal of support — interest-free and without a fixed repayment deadline. In practice, if the threshold is never reached, no repayment is required. It may also occur much later or be interrupted if income drops below the threshold again. In such cases, repayment is paused until the threshold is crossed again.
The repayment amount in a given period equals 10% of the organization’s additional income (compared to the period before the Foundation’s support). This means that 90% of the income above the threshold can continue to be used for the organization’s core mission.
Example of the Support Model and Financial Settlement
For clarity, we present an example based on fictional data and a simplified story to illustrate how the repayment mechanism works in practice.
Before the cooperation began, the organization was running 100 educational programs and generating annual income of 300,000 PLN – mainly from municipal fees. Przed rozpoczęciem współpracy organizacja realizowała 100 programów edukacyjnych i uzyskiwała przychód roczny w wysokości 300 000 zł – głównie z opłat od gmin.
The organization’s leader had a proven product and development vision. The organization met the support criteria and received financial aid in the form of a fixed monthly grant of 8,333 PLN to cover the leader’s salary and advisory support from a Partner (mentor) assisting with the organization’s development for 2–3 hours monthly.
An additional 20,000 PLN was granted for special projects, training, and expert support amounting to 40 hours annually. The support continued in this form for 3 years.
This means the organization received approximately 120,000 PLN annually in funding, plus about 70 hours of advisory/expert support per year. Over 3 years, the organization received nominal financial support of 360,000 PLN. Advisory services are not valued for repayment – the repayment mechanism applies only to financial support.
After 2 years of operation, the organization scaled up its program delivery to 190% of the pre-grant level, and its annual income rose to 595,000 PLN. The organization nearly doubled its impact and almost reached the minimum threshold required to begin repayment. However, the threshold was not yet met.
In the following year, due to accelerated scaling and new grant funding, the organization reached the annual income threshold of 600,000 PLN within 6 months (double the revenue it had before starting the Foundation’s support). By the end of the year, its revenue rose to 1,000,000 PLN.
This means that from month 7 to 12, the organization repaid the Foundation 10% of all income over 600,000 PLN, as part of its contribution to the Foundation’s Social Change Revolving Fund. This amounted to 40,000 PLN. Over 3 years, the organization received 360,000 PLN in support and repaid 40,000 PLN. Therefore, 320,000 PLN remained to be repaid in the following years.
The organization continued to grow and significantly scaled its operations, generating the following revenues in subsequent years:
- 1,500,000 PLN → repayment: 90,000 PLN ((1,500,000 – 600,000) × 10%)
- 2,300,000 PLN → repayment: 170,000 PLN ((2,300,000 – 600,000) × 10%)
- 3,000,000 PLN → repayment: remaining 60,000 PLN
In total, over 3 years, the organization repaid 300,000 PLN. The final 60,000 PLN was repaid within the first few months of the next year, as the organization’s revenue reached 3,000,000 PLN.
Thus, the organization took about 3.5 years to repay the nominal value of the financial support it had previously received, thanks to effective scaling.
Another organization might need more time – e.g., 10 years. In practice, if the organization experiences a crisis and its income falls below the threshold, repayments are paused. Once the situation improves and income exceeds the threshold again, repayments resume.Inna organizacja może potrzebować dłuższego okresu, np. 10 lat. Praktycznie może być tak, że organizacja w międzyczasie przechodzi kryzys, jej obroty spadają poniżej progu i w takim okresie spłaty zostają zawieszone. Gdy sytuacja się polepsza i organizacja ponownie ma przychody powyżej progu, wraca do spłaty.
This way, the organization shares the fruits of its development by transferring funds that are then used to support future Beneficiaries of the Owoc Obfity Foundation.
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