'la Caixa' Foundation Achieves a Historic Budget in 2025

In 2025, the "la Caixa" Foundation will reach a historic budget of 655 million euros, 9% more than the previous year, consolidating its commitment to social welfare, culture, science and education. Since 2008, the entity has allocated more than 500 million euros annually to social initiatives, progressively increasing this investment since 2017.

More than half of the budget planned for this year, approximately 370 million euros (about 60% of the total), will focus on social transformation programs. Notable projects include CaixaProinfancia, aimed at combating child poverty; Incorpora and Reincorpora, which promote the labor insertion of people in vulnerable situations; the Comprehensive Care Program for People with Advanced Illnesses, aimed at improving the quality of life of those in the final stage of their lives; and the Elderly Program, which encourages active participation and healthy aging.

Meanwhile, around 20% of the investment (130 million euros) will be allocated to cultural and scientific dissemination. This amount will finance the programming of the CaixaForum centers and the CosmoCaixa Science Museum, as well as traveling exhibitions, concerts, conferences and the audiovisual platform CaixaForum+, which offers cultural and scientific dissemination content.

In the field of research and health, the Foundation will invest 105 million euros, representing 16% of the budget. Among the highlighted initiatives are the CaixaResearch Health Research and CaixaImpulse Innovation programs, which support advanced medical projects, as well as the development of the CaixaResearch Institute, a reference center specializing in immunology.

The educational area also occupies an important place in the Foundation's strategy. 49 million euros (7% of the total budget) will be allocated to education and scholarship programs. This investment includes grants for undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and postdoctoral studies, as well as the EduCaixa program, focused on transforming the educational system and strengthening the skills of students and teachers.

In the last decade, the "la Caixa" Foundation has dedicated more than 5 billion euros to social, cultural, scientific and educational projects, reaffirming its commitment to the most vulnerable people and to the progress of society as a whole.

Isidro Fainé, president of the "la Caixa" Foundation, has emphasized: "For more than a century, our entity has worked to offer more opportunities to those who need it most. Our commitment to people, today and always, is to build a better future for everyone. That's why we are increasing the budget to continue promoting social progress, culture and science, education and research and health. We want to provide lasting solutions to improve the quality of life for all people, especially the most vulnerable. Only by exercising responsible and transformative leadership will we achieve the construction of a fairer society with more opportunities for everyone."

In 2024, the Foundation attended to more than 235,000 people in Spain and Portugal through its direct social intervention programs, showing with actions its commitment to the development of a fairer and more inclusive society.