Schaffrath Stiftung für Soziales

What Schaffrath Stiftung für Soziales does

Schaffrath Stiftung für Soziales is a German charitable foundation (Stiftung) established in 2017 and headquartered at Öckelhofer Straße 28, 41065 Mönchengladbach, Germany. It was founded by Friedhelm Schaffrath, owner of the Schaffrath Gruppe furniture retail business, and his wife Renate Schaffrath (Chair of the Foundation Board), with Frederic Schaffrath also active on the board. The foundation's stated mission is to provide direct, unbureaucratic aid ("Hilfe, die ankommt") for youth welfare, elderly welfare, public social welfare, and healthcare across the Mönchengladbach-Düsseldorf-Krefeld triangle in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The foundation operates no commercial products or technology platform; its core activity is grant-making and direct financial donations to local social welfare organizations (food banks, youth centers, hospitals, schools, unemployment centers, refugee integration programs) and individuals in need. Documented 2024–2025 grant recipients include Café Grenzenlos (Düsseldorf-Unterbilk), Gladbacher Tafel, Arbeitslosenzentrum Mönchengladbach, Alexianer Krefeld, Städtische Kliniken Mönchengladbach, True Colours Queeres Jugendzentrum, brotZeit e.V. (school breakfasts), AWO KulturTreff, and Aidshilfe Düsseldorf e.V., with individual grant sizes typically ranging from 1,600 EUR to 15,000 EUR. The foundation also funds international nursing-trainee integration (27 Indian trainees at Maria Hilf clinics) and contributed toward a 50,000 EUR Lego Education Innovation Studio for STEM learning.

Revenue is generated exclusively through charitable donations from individuals and organizations plus Zustiftungen (endowment contributions) that grow the foundation's capital base. Go-to-market is community-led: board members personally visit partner organizations, cultivate relationships with mayors and nonprofit leaders, and accept grant applications through the foundation's website (spendenantrag). The foundation is sustained by the credibility of the Schaffrath family brand, public endorsements from the mayors of Mönchengladbach and Krefeld, and outreach via its website, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and earned local media. No operating revenue figures, headcount beyond the founding family, or financial performance metrics are publicly disclosed.

Name

Schaffrath Stiftung für Soziales

Legal name

Schaffrath Stiftung für Soziales

Website

https://schaffrath-stiftung.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Schaffrath Stiftung für Soziales is a Mönchengladbach-based charitable foundation that provides direct grants and donations to local nonprofits, hospitals, schools, and social welfare organizations serving youth, elderly, refugees, and disadvantaged individuals across the Mönchengladbach-Düsseldorf-Krefeld region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Product category

Charitable Foundation / Social Welfare Grant-Making

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Grantmaking and Giving Services (8132), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Social Justice & Human Rights Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAN)

akta.pro secondary industry

Grantmaking & Philanthropic Funds (Institutional Donors) (BPADAOAB)

Keywords

• Charitable foundation grants
• Social welfare funding
• Youth welfare support
• Elderly care grants
• Community donations

Headquarters

HQ city

Mönchengladbach

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Others, Operations, Personnel

Revenue model

1. Donations and charitable contributions: The foundation receives monetary donations from individuals and organizations. These are disbursed as grants to eligible social welfare recipients in the region.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Schaffrath Stiftung für Soziales is a private charitable foundation that provides direct, unbureaucratic financial grants (Fördermittel) to social welfare organizations, healthcare institutions, schools, and individuals in need across the Mönchengladbach-Düsseldorf-Krefeld region. Its funding prioritizes youth welfare (Jugendhilfe), elderly welfare (Altenhilfe), public social welfare (Wohlfahrtswesen), and healthcare (Gesundheitswesen). The foundation also accepts donations and Zustiftungen (endowment contributions) that strengthen its long-term grant-making capacity.

Product overview

Schaffrath Stiftung für Soziales is a charitable foundation based in Mönchengladbach, Germany, that does not operate a commercial product or service offering. The organization focuses on providing financial support and grants for social welfare projects, including youth welfare, elderly care, refugee assistance, health services, and poverty relief in the Mönchengladbach, Düsseldorf, and Krefeld regions. The foundation's activities center on donations, Zustiftungen (endowment contributions), and direct financial aid to social organizations and individuals in need, rather than selling products or technology services.

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Products and services

• Social Welfare Grant Program (Fördermittel für Jugend- und Altenhilfe sowie öffentliches Wohlfahrts- und Gesundheitswesen) Direct monetary grants to eligible social welfare organizations, healthcare institutions, schools, and youth centers in the Mönchengladbach-Düsseldorf-Krefeld region. Grants cover youth welfare, elderly welfare, public social welfare, and healthcare, and have funded items such as industrial dishwashers, forklifts, refrigeration units, kitchen equipment, a therapeutic VR headset for neurological rehabilitation, baby sleep sacks, and school breakfast programs.
• Donation Program (Spenden) Program through which individuals and organizations can make monetary donations to the foundation via the website (schaffrath-stiftung.de) to support the foundation's grant-making activities.
• Endowment Contribution Program (Zustiftungen)

Named customers12 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Künstler ROSSI (Mönchengladbach)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 30 September 2025Through the Schaffrath furniture store, a 1,600 EUR artwork by local artist ROSSI was donated to the foundation for a raffle, with proceeds benefiting the foundation.
• True Colours Queeres Jugendzentrum MönchengladbachminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 September 2025Donation of kitchen equipment and office furniture to the queer youth center True Colours at Stepgesstraße, Mönchengladbach, to support counseling for queer youth on topics including coming out and bullying.
• Alexianer Krefeld GmbH (Krankenhaus Maria-Hilf)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 September 2025Donation of 8,566 EUR for a therapeutic VR headset for neurological rehabilitation. The VR technology is used in the Krankenhaus Maria-Hilf for stroke patients and post-accident patients to support motor and cognitive rehabilitation.
• Verein grenzenlos e.V. (Café Grenzenlos)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 July 2025Long-standing partnership with the grenzenlos e.V. association operating Café Grenzenlos in Düsseldorf-Unterbilk. The foundation has provided multiple donations (totaling over 23,000 EUR across 2016–2025) to support the café's operations serving meals and social integration for people in need, including a 10,000 EUR donation in 2025.
• Sozial-Holding MönchengladbachminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 May 2025Donation to equip apartments with kitchens for 27 Indian nursing trainees beginning their Ausbildung at the Maria Hilf clinics in Mönchengladbach, supporting the international recruitment of care workers.
• Städtische Kliniken Mönchengladbach (Elisabeth-Krankenhaus Rheydt)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 April 2025Donation of 10,000 EUR for 500 baby sleep sacks for newborns at the Elisabeth-Krankenhaus Rheydt, which recorded 3,496 births in 2024, making it the busiest birth clinic in NRW.
• Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) Mönchengladbach - KulturTreffminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 November 2024Donation of 5,000 EUR to the AWO's KulturTreff language and integration program for migrants and refugees in Mönchengladbach and Grevenbroich, with a focus on everyday German language skills and cultural integration, particularly for women with children.
• brotZeit e.V.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with the brotZeit e.V. association to provide healthy breakfasts for children at four primary schools in Mönchengladbach. The foundation covers the required school contribution of approximately 3,000 EUR per school year for all four schools, enabling approximately 40 children per school to receive daily breakfast.
• pro multis StiftungminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe foundation acts as a sponsor for the pro multis charity running event, donating 2,500 EUR to support 65 kindergartens' wishes for physical activity equipment in Mönchengladbach and the Kreis Heinsberg.
• Arbeitslosenzentrum MönchengladbachminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMultiple donations including 2,500 EUR for refrigeration repair and 8,000 EUR for a new gas stove and convection oven for the lunch program serving long-term unemployed and socially disadvantaged people, providing approximately 60 meals daily.
• Aidshilfe Düsseldorf e.V.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMultiple donations totaling 15,000 EUR to the Aidshilfe Düsseldorf's emergency relief fund for people with HIV/AIDS, including a 5,000 EUR donation in 2018 and 5,000 EUR in 2021, providing approximately 50–80 EUR per affected individual annually.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Haniel Stiftung: German family-led foundation tied to a Mittelstand enterprise (Haniel Group), funding social and educational causes. Comparable as a corporate-family foundation model distributing grants regionally.
• Bertelsmann Stiftung: One of Germany's largest private operating foundations, also headquartered in a strong regional base. While far larger and more thematically broad, it shares the model of a family/corporate-led foundation distributing funds for social causes.
• Vodafone Stiftung Deutschland: German corporate foundation funding social innovation, education, and integration. Comparable in operating as a foundation that funds nonprofit partners across welfare and integration causes.
• Dietmar Hopp Stiftung: German founder-led foundation supporting youth, elderly, social welfare, education, and healthcare causes. Mirrors Schaffrath's multi-cause local-to-regional approach but operates at much larger scale from a software entrepreneur endowment.
• Körber-Stiftung: Major German family-founded foundation active in social, educational, and civic programs. Comparable in being a privately established German foundation distributing grants across welfare verticals, though operating at significantly larger scale.
• Bosch Stiftung: Major German corporate-foundation model funding social welfare, education, and healthcare programs. Overlaps in cause verticals (youth welfare, elderly care, healthcare) but operates at much larger national and international scale.

Regional players

• Stiftung Lesen: German foundation promoting reading and education, partnering with schools and social organizations across Germany. Comparable in being a German nonprofit foundation that funds school- and community-based welfare programs at regional scale.

Direct peers

• Karl Kübel Stiftung: Family-founded German foundation focused on children, families, and social welfare. Closely comparable in mission (vulnerable populations, family welfare) and family-led governance.
• Software AG Stiftung: German corporate-foundation model established by a Mittelstand entrepreneur (similar to Friedhelm Schaffrath), funding regional social welfare, education, and cultural causes. Comparable in scale and founder-family governance structure.
• pro multis Stiftung: Smaller regional German foundation operating in the Mönchengladbach area focused on early childhood and family welfare, explicitly partnered with the Schaffrath foundation. Closest local peer in both geography and cause focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles2 records

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