In addition to the Fund for Open society, the most important domestic grant giver, focusing on supporting smaller CSOs in the Balkan Community Initiatives Fund (BCIF). Total amount disbursed annually is a relatively modest 500,000 – 600,000 EUR, but its grant application procedures are accessible, straightforward and tailored to the needs of local and grassroots CSO projects.
The total amount of financial support for civil society from the business sector remains small, but there is a positive trend of increasing numbers of businesses supporting CSOs. Recently a number of large foreign corporations, such as Philip Morris and La Farge, have begun to show interest in this area and Serbian and foreign banks are among the most active. At the local level a lot of support goes unrecorded. A lack of systematic monitoring of corporate support for CSOs means that total amounts offered by business are probably under‐ estimated. Contrary to popular belief, there are sufficient tax incentives in law to encourage corporate philanthropy.
According to the 2009 Survey, only 11% of the CSO funds come from individual sources. In Serbia, the culture of individual giving was always present for generally speaking humanitarian cases (natural disasters, children, persons with disabilities, illness, and similar). It is very difficult, almost impossible to obtain individual funding for causes such are human rights, democratization, civil society development, facing the past and other things that most NGOs established in the nineties and 2000 are dealing with. There are no incentives provided for individuals to support charitable ventures. In 2010, with USAID support, BCIF is planning a comprehensive campaign to promote individual giving.