What Erasmus MC Foundation does

Erasmus MC Foundation (Stichting Erasmus MC Foundation) is the central, ANBI-registered and CBF-recognized fundraising organization for Erasmus MC, the largest university medical center in the Netherlands, headquartered at Dr. Molenwaterplein 40, Rotterdam. Founded in 2018 and operating with 18 staff, the foundation channels donations toward medical research, hospital innovation, and capital projects at Erasmus MC, including the new Sophia Children's Hospital, the renewed Psychiatry department, and the Next Generation Research Tower (SPOT). It operates a dedicated cancer-research subsidiary, Daniel den Hoed Fonds, and runs a portfolio of recurring community fundraising events such as the Rotterdam City Swim, Charity Run, Ice Challenge, Memory Walk, Ventoux3, Tour for Life, and MaartenMemorial.

The foundation's revenue model is multi-stream and reliant on voluntary contributions rather than commercial pricing. Streams include individual donations, periodic giving, legacy gifts, a corporate Business Club, event-based peer-to-peer fundraising, webshop sales, and major-donor instruments. The Erasmus Medical Breakthrough Fund — with a minimum €100,000 contribution — represents a high-ticket vehicle for transformative research funding, sitting alongside the multi-year Sophia/SPOT capital campaign as the foundation's most recent major-gift push. Recent flagship events produced record or near-record results (Rotterdam City Swim 2026: €392,500+; Rotterdam Memory Walk 2025: €331,490; Rotterdam Ice Challenge: €118,000; MaartenMemorial: €30,000).

Operationally, the foundation acts as the donation intermediary between the public, corporates, and Erasmus MC's research and clinical programs. It does not disclose full audited financials, but the scale of the capital campaign, the €100K minimum gift threshold, and the portfolio of flagship events imply an annual fundraising run-rate in the low-tens of millions of euros. Its competitive position rests on regulatory status (ANBI, CBF), institutional affiliation with the country's largest UMC, and a multi-format donor engagement model that creates layered retention across casual, mid-level, and major donors.

Name

Erasmus MC Foundation

Legal name

Stichting Erasmus MC Foundation

Website

https://erasmusmcfoundation.nl

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Erasmus MC Foundation is the ANBI-registered fundraising vehicle for Erasmus MC, the largest university medical center in the Netherlands, channeling individual donations, corporate partnerships, legacy gifts, and event proceeds toward medical research and capital projects.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Charitable Fundraising Services

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211)

akta.pro primary industry

Health & Medical Research Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Disease-Specific Research & Support (e.g., Cancer, Diabetes, ALS) (BPAGACAA)

Keywords

• Medical research fundraising
• Charitable donations
• Corporate philanthropy
• Legacy giving
• Fundraising events

Headquarters

HQ city

Rotterdam

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Donations - Individuals: One-time and recurring donations from individual donors supporting specific research projects or general foundation activities. Donors can give directly via the website, through online fundraising campaigns, or by participating in organized sporting events.
2. Event-based Fundraising: Revenue generated through organized sporting events where participants raise money for medical research. Events include Rotterdam City Swim, Rotterdam Charity Run, Rotterdam Ice Challenge, Rotterdam Memory Walk, Ventoux3, and Tour for Life.
3. Corporate Partnerships and Business Club: Annual membership fees and donations from corporate partners through the Erasmus MC Business Club, providing networking opportunities and exclusive behind-the-scenes hospital access.
4. Legacy Gifts and Bequests: Donors can include the foundation in their wills, with full donation going to research due to ANBI status (no gift tax required). The foundation offers testamentary executor services.
5. Periodic Giving Programs: Regular periodic donations that donors can commit annually, often with tax advantages for the donor.
6. Erasmus Medical Breakthrough Fund: A specialized fund allowing donors to contribute to promising medical innovations with the possibility of later becoming investors if the research leads to commercial products. Minimum donation of €100,000 or €20,000 annually for five years.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Erasmus MC Foundation is the official fundraising organization for Erasmus MC, the largest university medical center in the Netherlands. It channels individual and corporate donations, periodic gifts, legacy bequests, and proceeds from branded sporting events toward scientific medical research. Donors can direct contributions to specific disease-area funds (cancer, brain tumors, heart disease, dementia, rare diseases, transplantation) or general research, with 100% of donations stated to go to research.

Product overview

Erasmus MC Foundation is a charitable fundraising organization that supports scientific research at Erasmus MC. Its core offering is a fundraising platform comprising donation mechanisms (one-time, periodic, legacy giving, corporate partnerships), an e-commerce webshop, newsletter communications, and various branded sporting events (Rotterdam City Swim, Rotterdam Ice Challenge, Rotterdam Memory Walk, Rotterdam Charity Run, Tour for Life, Ventoux3). The foundation connects donors with specific medical research areas through named target funds, while the Business Club provides corporate engagement. The Erasmus Medical Breakthrough Fund offers a unique investment-linked donation model for high-value donors seeking potential returns from medical innovations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Erasmus Medical Breakthrough Fund: A fund that enables donors to support promising medical innovations from Erasmus MC in the research phase, with the option to later participate as an investor when an invention reaches market.
• Erasmus MC Business Club
• Daniel den Hoed Fonds
• Daktuinen Erasmus MC

Products and services

• Erasmus MC Business Club Annual corporate membership program offering networking events, exclusive behind-the-scenes hospital tours, and lectures on medical breakthroughs for company partners supporting medical research.
• Periodic Giving Program (Periodiek Schenken) Recurring donation program allowing individual supporters to make regular annual contributions with potential Dutch tax benefits under ANBI status.
• Legacy Giving Program (Nalaten) Bequest and inheritance program enabling supporters to include the foundation in their wills; full donation goes to research with no gift tax required under ANBI status, and the foundation offers testamentary executor services.
• Erasmus Medical Breakthrough Fund Investment-linked donation fund allowing donors to contribute to promising medical innovations with the possibility of later becoming investors if research leads to commercial products; minimum donation of €100,000 or €20,000 annually for five years.
• Erasmus MC Foundation Webshop Online e-commerce shop where supporters purchase products with proceeds funding medical research at Erasmus MC.
• Sporting Fundraising Events Portfolio Branded participatory sporting events including Rotterdam City Swim, Rotterdam Charity Run, Rotterdam Ice Challenge, Rotterdam Memory Walk, Tour for Life, Ventoux3, and MaartenMemorial, where participants register and raise funds for medical research.
• Daniel den Hoed Fonds Wholly-owned subsidiary fund dedicated to cancer research funding within the Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, supporting personalized medicine, head and neck cancer, breast cancer, and other cancer types.
• Corporate Partnership Program (Steun als Bedrijf) Corporate support program allowing businesses to contribute to medical research through direct donations, Business Club membership, or sponsorship of fundraising events.
• Online Fundraising (Collecteren) Digital fundraising tool allowing supporters to create personal fundraising pages for collecting donations tied to a personal challenge or event.

Quantifiable outcome

• €392,500 raised for brain tumor research through Rotterdam City Swim 2026 with 1,000+ participants
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Sophia Stichtingen (Sophia Children's Hospital Foundations)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Sophia Stichtingen work together with Erasmus MC Foundation on the capital campaign for the new Sophia Children's Hospital. They finance projects directly contributing to the well-being of children and their families, combining their fundraising efforts with the foundation for this major building project.
• Rijnmond Hartfalen NetwerkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNetwork of 11 hospitals in the Rijnmond region working together on heart failure care. Partners with Erasmus MC Foundation on the wearables research project to better recognize and treat heart failure patients through remote monitoring.
• Hogeschool Rotterdam (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCreate4Care initiative involves close collaboration between Erasmus MC and Hogeschool Rotterdam, where students work with nurses to develop healthcare innovations and prototypes.
• Senegal and Sudan (Endemic Countries)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerErasmus MC collaborates with partners in Senegal and Sudan on mycetoma research, developing rapid identification methods for this tropical infectious disease that can be performed in local laboratories.
• Catharina Ziekenhuis EindhovenminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerINTERACT research collaboration between Catharina Hospital Eindhoven and Erasmus MC on new treatment methods for cancer patients with peritoneal metastases.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Longfonds: The Dutch Lung Foundation funds lung and respiratory research, a category overlapping with Erasmus MC Thorax Center research funding. Comparable as a Dutch disease-specific research charity with sporting events, individual giving, and legacy programs.
• Hersenstichting: The Dutch Brain Foundation raises funds for brain-related research, overlapping directly with Erasmus MC Foundation's brain tumor research portfolio (Ventoux3, Rotterdam Ice Challenge). Comparable as a Dutch health-research grantmaker with sporting event fundraising and individual donation programs.
• Stichting Vrienden UMCG: The University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) Foundation is the direct institutional counterpart to Erasmus MC Foundation — a fundraising foundation attached to another Dutch university medical center. Comparable in structure, donor base, and disease-research grantmaking model.
• Alzheimer Nederland: Alzheimer Nederland is the Dutch charity funding dementia research, including the research supported by the Erasmus MC Foundation's Rotterdam Memory Walk. Comparable as a disease-specific Dutch research fundraiser with event-driven GTM and legacy giving.
• Hartstichting: The Dutch Heart Foundation is a national health charity fundraising for cardiovascular research, including heart failure — a core research area funded by Erasmus MC Foundation through the Thorax Center. Comparable as a disease-specific research fundraiser with multi-channel donations, events, and legacy programs.
• ReumaNederland: ReumaNederland is the Dutch foundation funding rheumatology research, comparable to Erasmus MC Foundation as a Dutch single-disease health research fundraiser with a multi-channel donation model including sporting events.
• Amsterdam UMC Foundation: The Amsterdam UMC Foundation raises funds for research at Amsterdam's two university medical centers. Direct institutional peer: a Dutch UMC-affiliated fundraising foundation with similar donor channels, event-based fundraising, and disease-specific research funding mandate.
• Radboud Foundation: Radboud Foundation is the fundraising entity for Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen. Comparable as a Dutch university medical center foundation raising funds for medical research via individual donations, events, and corporate partnerships.

Broad incumbents

• KWF Kankerbestrijding: The Dutch Cancer Society is the largest national cancer-research fundraising charity in the Netherlands. Directly comparable to Erasmus MC Foundation in funding cancer research via individual donations, events, and legacy gifts, but with a national scope and broader disease mandate rather than affiliation with a single hospital.

Emerging players

• Vrienden Sophia Stichting: The Sophia Stichting funds the Sophia Children's Hospital in Rotterdam, which is affiliated with Erasmus MC. Currently a strategic partner on the new Sophia Children's Hospital capital campaign and therefore a directly adjacent fundraiser that shares both donor base and beneficiary population with Erasmus MC Foundation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/erasmusmcfoundation
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/erasmus-mc-foundation
• Instagraminstagram.com/erasmusmcfoundation

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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