Code of Conduct
Transparency, verified donation partners, no active investment decisions
Via our website and our annual report, we disclose, among other things, all income and expenses of the association, the current assets and the associated annual donations.
We only donate to non-profit organizations that fully disclose their use of funds and have the effectiveness of their activities scientifically analyzed and evaluated.
We do not make any active investment decisions. The return on the Wealth for the World assets passively follows the performance of the global stock market.
of the donated money flows directly into the Wealth for the World fund
Expenses for website, transaction costs, etc. are covered by donations explicitly designated for this purpose.Learn more about costs and expenses
The entire Wealth for the World team works on a voluntary basis. This means that there are no costs for donation acquisition, performance calculation, website design and other activities.
Transparency
We are a non-profit organization committed to maximum transparency. To ensure this openness, we publish our investment strategy, income, expenses, tax documents, and other relevant information.
- You can find detailed reports on our expenses here.
- You can find annual reports since 2016 here.
- Donation receipts for donations to our donation partners can be downloaded here.
- You can find annual income and expense invoices that form the basis of our tax declarations here.
- Read our statutes here.
- Wealth for the World is a signatory of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative (ITZ).
Our ten ITZ transparency disclosures
Transparency matters to us. That is why we have signed the self-commitment declaration of the Initiative Transparente Zivilgesellschaft (ITZ, Transparent Civil Society Initiative). We commit to making the following ten pieces of information available to the public and keeping them up to date.
Last updated: 16 October 2026
- 1. Name, registered office, address and year of foundation
Geld für die Welt e.V. (Wealth for the World, non-profit)
Oberhöchstädter Straße 5, 61476 Kronberg, GermanyRepresented by:
Christoph Lindenberg (Chairman), Julian Lindenberg (Treasurer)ITZ contact person:
Christoph Lindenberg, cl@gfdw.euRegister Court:
Amtsgericht Königstein im Taunus, VR 1376Year of foundation: 2015 (entry in the register of associations: 2016)
- 2. Complete statutes and information on the goals of our organization
- 3. Information on tax benefits
Exemption notice (Freistellungsbescheid) from the tax office Bad Homburg v.d.H., tax number 003/250/72179, dated April 24, 2026, for the assessment period 2023 to 2025. Under it, our work is exempt from corporate income tax under § 5 para. 1 no. 9 of the Corporate Income Tax Act and from trade tax under § 3 no. 6 of the Trade Tax Act.
Tax-privileged purposes under § 52 para. 2 sentence 1 of the German Fiscal Code (AO), as stated in the notice: support for persecuted people and refugees (no. 10), international understanding (no. 13), development cooperation (no. 15), equality of women and men (no. 18) and civic engagement (no. 25).
- 4. Name and function of key decision-makers
- Board: Christoph Lindenberg – Chairman (ITZ contact person); Julian Lindenberg – TreasurerAbout us
- 5. Activity report
- Our current activity report is the Annual Report 2025. It covers the fund's payout period from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2025.
- 6. Personnel structure
- In the fiscal year 2025 (January 1 – December 31, 2025), Wealth for the World had no full-time employees, freelancers, marginal employees or volunteer-service participants. Six people worked on a voluntary basis, including the board. In earlier years, too, Wealth for the World had no full-time employees and paid no salaries.About us - Team
- 7./8. Information on the origin and use of funds
- We report the origin and use of funds in our annual income and expenditure statement. It is broken down into non-profit activities, asset management, purpose-related operations and commercial operations, and includes a list of assets as of December 31. The reporting period is the fiscal year, which under § 5 of our statutes is the calendar year; the latest is fiscal year 2025 (January 1 – December 31, 2025). The archive contains the statements since 2016. The chapter “Income & Expenses” in the Annual Report 2025 explains the ongoing operating expenses.
- 9. Affiliation with third parties
- None.
- 10. Names of persons whose annual contributions account for more than ten percent of our total annual income
Major donations from private individuals: In the fiscal year 2025 (January 1 – December 31, 2025), two private individuals each donated between 10% and 20% of our total income.
No legal entity contributed more than 10% of our total income in this period.
- Cost structure
- 100% of the money donated to Wealth for the World flows into the Wealth for the World assetsOperating costs are covered exclusively by donations explicitly designated for this purpose.More info.The entire Wealth for the World team works on a voluntary basis.