Focus on new players and structural development: With around one third of its grants, the Fund for Social Culture explicitly supports initiatives and institutions that have not yet received funding from the fund. Their share of funding is stable at around 30%, regardless of how many new applicants there have been.

The proportion of new applicants peaked in 2023, which may be related to the expiry of the NEUSTART-KULTUR programmes and the ongoing crisis situation facing organisations. In 2024, the Fonds Soziokultur launched a new regular funding programme in response to this crisis mode. For the first time, ‘Profil: Soziokultur’ (Profile: Socio-Culture) is aimed at experienced associations and institutions that want to raise their profile and stabilise their work. This means that the focus here was deliberately not on new initiatives, but on those that need further development and stabilisation in terms of structure and content.