Intesa Sanpaolo Boosts 2025 Charity Fund to €24.5M for Healthcare, Youth, and Inclusion

Over the past ten years, Intesa Sanpaolo has allocated €130 million to non-profit organizations. These resources have translated into support for 7,700 projects benefiting individuals and families in need, young people, and women, to bridge the educational and digital divide, combat poverty, and address growing inequality.

In 2024, the €23 million distributed was primarily disbursed nationwide and benefited 934,000 people, 44% of whom were in the North, 25% in Central Italy, and 31% in the South and Islands. For 2025, the fund’s allocation has increased to €24.5 million. Here’s how to apply.

How to apply to Intesa SanPaolo’s charity fund

Donation requests may be submitted by non-profit organizations, duly established pursuant to law and registered in at least one public registry, with headquarters in Italy. Organizations must prepare audited financial statements or have procedures, including accounting, that allow for easy verification of the consistency between their stated objectives and those actually pursued.

Grants to individuals, political parties, political movements and their branches, trade unions, and employers’ organizations are not permitted. To ensure the use of the broad, flexible fund, a rotation mechanism is in place, with a maximum limit of three consecutive years for the same project. Allocations are made following an assessment of the Intesa SanPaolo project’s impact, the organization’s operational capacity based on past results, and its consistency with the fund’s principles.

Grants, awarded based on selections according to specific predefined mechanisms, include local donations, up to a maximum of €5,000, aimed at supporting projects and initiatives with a local impact, and central donations, above €5,000, aimed at supporting broader projects. The Intesa Sanpaolo charity fund website also features in-depth documents explaining how to self-assess and best present projects.

The 2025 resources of the charity fund

In 2025, the Intesa Sanpaolo fund’s allocation increased to 24.5 million euros, disbursed according to the guidelines for the 2025-2026 two-year period which establish the priority areas for action:

local healthcare welfare, through support for access to social and healthcare services for people without an adequate network, support for families with non-self-sufficient or vulnerable individuals, and the creation of healthcare units and centers, including mobile ones, complementary to the National Health System (NHS) and managed by Third Sector Organizations;

enhancing the potential of southern Italy and its islands , to combat school dropout, develop inland areas, and support youth entrepreneurship in these territories;

Social inclusion of migrants and refugees experiencing social, economic, psychological, and linguistic vulnerability, to promote effective and sustainable integration, with a specific focus on reception and inclusion activities, education and training, and job placement.

Providing for by Intesa Sanpaolo’s Articles of Association, the Charity, Social, and Cultural Fund allocates a portion of profits to charitable causes and to support projects promoting solidarity, social utility, and human development. It contributes to the bank’s ongoing social impact program, which provides €1.5 billion in resources by 2027.

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