Navalny publishes the 2015 accounts for his Anti-Corruption Foundation

Alexei Navalny, head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), has published a report detailing the FBK’s accounts for 2015.

Donations to the FBK have grown by 40 percent in 2015. The FBK received more than 40,000 donations from 17,000 people, which brought the foundation’s 2015 funds to 39 million rubles (close to $600,000). In 2014, the FBK received 24,000 donations totalling 28.5 million rubles (about $435,000).

However the size of the average donation in 2015 was 958 rubles (about $15), which was slightly less than last year.

Almost all of the funds donated to the FBK were spent on employee salaries (more than 45 percent), then office rent (25 percent), and then taxes (12 percent). The average employee salary for 2015 was 65,787 rubles (about $1,000).

Over 2015, the FBK published 56 investigations. Thanks to the investigation into the Russian Attorney General, Yuri Chaika, the FBK received 3.5 million rubles (just over $53,000) in additional donations.

In the report, Navalny calls the FBK the largest NGO in Russia that sustains itself entirely on domestic donations from individuals.