Country profile
Latvia
Definition
The Law on Associations and Foundations in Latvia identifies only one type of foundation and does not divide them into different types. Officially, there are 1,883 registered foundations, all of which meet criteria 1, 2, and 4 of Philea’s working definition of public-benefit foundation. However, for criteria 3 and 5, there is no publicly available data.
Latvia’s philanthropy profile
No data
Pool of assets
No data
Total expenditure
No data
Total employment
Latvia’s foundations
1883 (2023)
foundations
The provided data only includes those who have submitted annual reports. The publicly available data do not show the number of foundations failing to submit an annual report, which indicates that the provided figure may be much higher. Moreover, among the foundations included in this figure are non-profits that fundraise for their activities. In Latvia, some prefer to choose this status to avoid the tedious bureaucracy involved with handling membership, choosing instead to operate under the label of ‘foundation’. Data for Latvia was provided by DOTS Foundation for an Open Society and collected from the Enterprise Register of the Republic of Latvia.