Fundación MAPFRE Canarias

What Fundación MAPFRE Canarias does

Fundación MAPFRE Canarias is a private non-profit foundation established in 1985 (originally as Fundación Mutua Guanarteme, reorganized in 1992 following the merger with Fundación MAPFRE) and headquartered in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. It operates exclusively in the Canary Islands archipelago and is affiliated with the MAPFRE group, which provides its primary funding. The foundation's activity is organized into four pillars: social action, culture, training and prevention, and scholarships and awards. Its offerings include free exhibitions and concerts in three foundation-operated venues (two in Gran Canaria, one in Tenerife), annual open calls (convocatorias) for arts, literature, music, and social projects, hospital musicotherapy embedded in five public university hospitals, vocational training for vulnerable populations, postgraduate scholarships in STEM, business, and music, and a portfolio of publications including Cuentos Solidarios and Cuentos desde la celda. Key partners include Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Universidad de La Laguna, the regional health authority (Consejería de Sanidad del Gobierno de Canarias), Cáritas Diocesana de Canarias, Plena Inclusión Canarias, and Fundación Ataretaco.

The foundation operates with a small team (11–50 employees, with 11 staff explicitly named) and delivered 105 activities serving 109,078 beneficiaries in 2025, with a digital audience of 44.36 million and total expenditure of €4,022,000. Programs are distributed free of charge to individual beneficiaries; commercial revenue is limited to book sales (e.g., Cuentos Solidarios at €8.00 print / €4.00 e-book) with proceeds directed to charitable causes. The underlying technology stack is minimal: a web-based Campus Virtual platform for course registration and content delivery, and a standard suite of social media channels (Facebook, X, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn) for outreach. The foundation does not sell commercial products, hold proprietary technology IP, or pursue revenue-generating contracts; its operating model is grant-funded charitable activity delivered through owned venues and a dense institutional partner network.

Name

Fundación MAPFRE Canarias

Legal name

Fundación Mapfre Canarias

Website

https://fundacionmapfrecanarias.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Fundación MAPFRE Canarias is a Canary Islands-based non-profit foundation (affiliated with the MAPFRE group) that delivers free social, cultural, training, and scholarship programs to vulnerable populations, students, and the general public across Gran Canaria and Tenerife.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Non-profit community foundation services

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Foundations (BPAGAKAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Education Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAK), Arts, Culture & Humanities Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAJ), Scholarship & Fellowship Foundations and Trusts (EDADAHAC)

Keywords

• Social action programs
• Cultural exhibition programming
• Vocational training services
• Scholarship and awards
• Community foundation services

Headquarters

HQ city

Las Palmas De Gran Canaria

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Foundation funding (MAPFRE group + institutional): Fundación MAPFRE Canarias is funded through its parent organization MAPFRE and generates revenue to support its social, cultural, and educational programs. No commercial revenue model is described as it operates as a non-profit foundation.
2. Sale of publications (Cuentos Solidarios and other collections): The foundation publishes children's books (Cuentos Solidarios) and sells them commercially, with proceeds donated to charitable causes. Revenues are modest and directed to social benefit rather than profit.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Fundación MAPFRE Canarias is a non-profit foundation that delivers free cultural, social, training, and educational programs to the Canarian community through four pillars: (1) Social Action — social innovation labs, employment support for people with disabilities, and hospital music therapy; (2) Culture — exhibitions, concerts, and literary publications; (3) Training and Prevention — vocational courses, professional workshops, and school-based prevention activities; and (4) Scholarships and Awards — postgraduate scholarships, medical research grants, and recognition prizes. The foundation operates cultural venues in Gran Canaria and Tenerife and partners with universities, hospitals, and NGOs to deliver its programs.

Product overview

Fundación MAPFRE Canarias operates as a charitable foundation focused on social action, culture, training, and prevention. Its offerings are organized across four main areas: Social Action (including the E-LAB Social Innovation Laboratory, the Juntos Somos Capaces employment program, and hospital musicotherapy), Cultural Activities (exhibitions, concerts, and literary publications like Cuentos Solidarios and Cuentos desde la celda), Training and Prevention (professional courses, AI applied to labor inclusion, vocational training, and educational activities for schools), and Scholarships/Awards (postgraduate scholarships in STEM/ADE/Music, medical research grants, and MIR awards). The organization also provides publications including the annual Anuario report and manages a Virtual Campus platform for course delivery. The foundation does not offer a commercial product in the traditional SaaS sense but provides social programs, cultural activities, and educational services primarily focused on the Canary Islands community.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• E-LAB (Laboratorio de Innovación Social EXPERIMENTA) Social innovation laboratory that fosters collaboration between different people and organizations to co-create solutions to specific social problems, with editions focused on inclusion (with Plena Inclusión Canarias), positive aging (with Universidad de La Laguna), and care culture (with Cáritas Diocesana de Canarias).
• Juntos Somos Capaces Employment program that promotes labor integration of people with intellectual disabilities and mental illness by fostering relationships between companies and social entities from an innovative approach.
• Musicoterapia Hospitalaria Hospital music therapy project that uses music as a therapeutic tool, complementing patients, families, and healthcare staff in five public university hospitals across Gran Canaria and Tenerife.
• Cuentos Solidarios Sociocultural project promoting the publication of children's stories, co-promoted with ULPGC, with profits from sales donated to charitable organizations.
• Becas de Posgrado Excellence and specialization scholarships facilitating postgraduate studies in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Business Administration, and Music for students from the Canary Islands.
• Cursos y Talleres de Formación Professional training courses and workshops offering opportunities for specialization, professional development, and entrepreneurship in various fields, including AI applied to labor guidance and inclusion.
• Programas de Capacitación Laboral Social program providing vocational training for employment in sectors such as hospitality, home care, elderly care, and social agriculture, in partnership with organizations such as Cáritas Diocesana de Canarias and CESAL.
• Actividades Didácticas Educational activities for schools including prevention programs (such as Taller Te damos la CLAVE on detecting violence), cooperative learning workshops (Taller Azul Marina), and safety education for children and youth.
• Exposiciones y Conciertos Cultural activities including art exhibitions and concerts held in foundation venues in Gran Canaria and Tenerife, supporting local and international artists.
• Convocatoria de Ayudas a Proyectos Sociales Annual grant program supporting social projects directed at childhood, adolescence, and people with disabilities in the Canary Islands, targeting NGOs and social organizations.
• Cuentos desde la celda Collection of short stories and micro-stories published annually from a literary contest for prison inmates (Ángel Guerra contest), promoting reading and writing in correctional facilities in partnership with the Secretaría General de Instituciones Penitenciarias.
• Campus Virtual Virtual campus platform for managing training activities, registrations, and access to educational content for foundation courses and programs.
• Premios MIR Annual awards recognizing the most outstanding Resident Intern Physicians (MIR) in each teaching hospital in the Canary Islands.
• Becas de Investigación Médica Medical research grants supporting researchers at University Hospitals in the Canary Islands to conduct studies improving health and well-being.

Quantifiable outcome

• 109,078 beneficiaries served in 2025
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Cáritas Diocesana de CanariascoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Fundación MAPFRE Canarias and Cáritas Diocesana de Canarias co-develop the E-LAB Biencuidar social innovation lab, addressing organizational care culture in third-sector organizations. Cáritas also partners on the Programa Social de Capacitación Laboral para el Empleo, providing vocational training to people in social vulnerability.
• Universidad de La Laguna (ULL)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024ULL, through its EUPAM (Estudios Universitarios para Personas Adultas y Mayores) program, partners with the foundation on E-LAB Nueva Longevidad social innovation lab, focused on positive aging and combating unwanted loneliness. The partnership also includes the Cátedra Fundación MAPFRE Canarias de Tecnología y Educación.
• Plena Inclusión CanariascoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Plena Inclusión Canarias, an association representing people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families, partnered with the foundation on the first edition of EXPERIMENTA el LAB (E-LAB Inclusión) to co-create solutions for community inclusion of people with disabilities.
• Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerULPGC co-promotes the Cuentos Solidarios project with the foundation, publishing illustrated children's books annually with charitable proceeds. Also a partner in scholarships and research programs. The university Press (SPDC) handles book distribution.
• Secretaría General de Instituciones PenitenciariascoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Secretary General of Penitentiary Institutions partners with the foundation on the Ángel Guerra literary contest (short stories and micro-stories written by prison inmates), and on the Cuentos desde la celda publication series — fostering literacy and rehabilitation through writing in Spanish prisons.
• Fundación Advanced Leadership InternationalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartners with the foundation on the Shadowing Program Becas in the USA, enabling Canary Islands university graduates to gain professional experience through shadowing placements in companies and organizations in Washington D.C.
• Consejería de Sanidad del Gobierno de CanariascoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe regional health authority of the Government of the Canary Islands has a formal agreement supporting the Musicoterapia Hospitalaria project, which operates in five public university hospitals across the archipelago. The project has been active since 2016 under this partnership.
• Fundación ForjaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIn collaboration with Fundación Forja, the foundation delivers preventive education talks in schools on topics including alcohol, drugs, bullying, and cyberbullying — extending its prevention and awareness mission to the school community.
• CESALcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCESAL partners with the foundation on the Programa Social de Capacitación Laboral para el Empleo, providing practical vocational training to unemployed people in vulnerable situations in the Canary Islands, particularly in the hospitality sector.
• Red de Hospitales Públicos Universitarios de CanariascoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe network of five public university hospitals in the Canary Islands hosts the Musicoterapia Hospitalaria program, with music therapists embedded in hospital teams at Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular-Materno Infantil (Gran Canaria), Hospital Universitario Dr. Negrín (Gran Canaria), Hospital Juan Carlos I (Gran Canaria), Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria (Tenerife), and Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Canarias (Tenerife).

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Fundación Repsol: Corporate foundation of Spanish energy major running social, cultural, and environmental programs with a regional branch structure. Operates with similar corporate-foundation DNA and multi-pillar programmatic design.
• Fundación Bancaria La Caixa: Spain's largest private foundation, running social, cultural, educational, and research programs with a multi-region footprint. Highly comparable four-pillar operating model and similar corporate-foundation DNA to Fundación MAPFRE Canarias.
• Fundación ONCE: Spanish foundation for the inclusion of people with disabilities, operating social-employment, training, and cultural programs nationwide. Directly comparable to Fundación MAPFRE Canarias' social-action and employment programs such as Juntos Somos Capaces.
• Fundación Telefónica: Corporate foundation of a major Spanish multinational running cultural, digital-education, and social-inclusion programs. Similar corporate-affiliated foundation model with overlapping pillars in training/prevention and social action.

Direct peers

• Fundación MAPFRE: Parent-affiliated foundation with global MAPFRE scope. Direct sibling entity operating across social action, culture, prevention, and training — same four-pillar model as Fundación MAPFRE Canarias, but at national/international scale.
• Fundación Cepsa: Canary-Islands-rooted corporate foundation focused on social, cultural, and educational development in the same archipelago. Direct regional peer with an overlapping beneficiary base and program categories.

Regional players

• Fundación CajaCanarias: Canary Islands savings-bank foundation operating social, cultural, and educational programs across the archipelago. One of the most direct regional peers given overlapping territory, beneficiary groups, and four-pillar program design.
• Fundación DISA: Canary Islands corporate foundation funding social-action and cultural projects in the same regional market. Highly comparable in mission and geographic scope, though smaller in disclosed activity volume.

Emerging players

• Plena Inclusión Canarias: Active partner of Fundación MAPFRE Canarias on E-LAB Inclusión; the Canarian federation representing people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Comparable mission focus on disability inclusion and direct collaboration makes it a near-peer in the social-action category.
• Cáritas Diocesana de Canarias: Active partner on E-LAB Biencuidar and the Capacitación Laboral program; a faith-based social-services organization serving the same Canary Islands beneficiary population. Directly comparable as a co-developer in social-action and labor-inclusion programming.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

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M&A

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