Governance & transparency
This page is our ANBI publication page (publicatieplicht). It carries our legal identity, objective, policy plan, board, remuneration policy, activities and financial accountability — plus the funding rules we hold voluntarily, above what the law requires.
Status — read this first
Stichting Tharan is in oprichting: the notarial deed, KVK registration and ANBI application are in sequence, in that order. Fields below marked pending are not yet available because the underlying step has not happened yet — not because we are withholding them. Each one is published the day it exists.
We are publishing this page before the ANBI filing rather than after, because the Belastingdienst checks it and because an organisation asking for trust should show its structure before it asks, not once it is convenient.
Legal identity
- Statutory name
- Stichting Tharan (in oprichting)
- Public name
- Tharan Foundation · Stichting Tharan
- Legal form
- Stichting (Dutch foundation), established under Dutch law
- Seat
- Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- KVK number
- Pending — assigned on registration by the notary with the deed of incorporation.
- RSIN
- Pending — published here as soon as the ANBI status is granted.
- ANBI status
- Application in sequence — filed immediately after incorporation. Decision typically takes around eight weeks and is retroactive to founding when filed within a year. ANBI is not required for municipal assignments, and we do not let it delay any work.
- Contact
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info@tharan.nl — general
governance@tharan.nl — governance, complaints and transparency questionsA postal address is published once formal registration is complete. We do not publish home addresses of board members, in line with the ANBI publication rules.
Doelstelling — statutory objective
“Het bevorderen van maatschappelijke participatie, integratie en constructieve dialoog in Nederland, het versterken van kennis over en samenwerking met Jemen en de Jemenitische gemeenschap, en voorts al hetgeen met een en ander rechtstreeks of zijdelings verband houdt of daartoe bevorderlijk kan zijn.”
In English: to promote civic participation, integration and constructive dialogue in the Netherlands; to strengthen knowledge of and cooperation with Yemen and the Yemeni community; and everything directly or indirectly connected to or conducive to those aims.
The objective is deliberately broad. It covers the full arc from a two-hour workshop for one municipal team to a mature knowledge institute, so that the work can grow without a notarial amendment — and so that our statutory purpose and our publicly stated direction never drift apart. There is no gap between what our statutes permit and what we say we are for.
Beleidsplan — policy plan in outline
The full policy plan is adopted by the board at incorporation and published here as a PDF. These are its main lines.
What we will do
- Community insight — briefings, listening sessions and stakeholder mapping for institutions.
- Civic participation & dialogue — facilitated, non-partisan dialogue formats.
- Professional mentorship — structured circles connecting professionals with newcomers and youth.
- Institutional support — cultural competency, outreach and engagement planning.
- Evidence products — the Feitenkaart, then an annual community report.
How it is funded and spent
- Income: paid assignments for institutions, Dutch municipal subsidies, Dutch charitable funds and private donations.
- No reserves beyond need. Funds are held only to the extent required for the work and continuity.
- Spending discipline: every expense has a receipt, a purpose, a budget line and an approval; the receiver never solely approves.
- On dissolution: any remaining assets pass to an organisation with a similar public-benefit purpose, as ANBI rules require.
Beleidsplan PDF: Published at incorporation
Bestuur — the board
Tharan is being constituted with an independent three-person board — chair, secretary and treasurer — which will hold legal and strategic responsibility for the foundation. It is built so that no single person holds decisive control and no family or business-partner majority can form, as ANBI status requires. All three seats are currently open and none is filled — recruitment is in progress for the full board, not for a remaining vacancy. Names and roles are published here once the board is confirmed at incorporation and each member has consented to publication.
Chair
Meeting discipline, guarding the mission, and external trust. Explicitly not permitted to act as a private owner of the foundation.
Appointment in progress
Secretary
Minutes, the decision register, the compliance calendar and records. Explicitly not permitted to allow undocumented decisions.
Appointment in progress
Treasurer
Budget, payments, reconciliation and reporting. Explicitly not permitted to approve their own expenses alone, or to handle cash without records.
Appointment in progress
Executive director
Delegated operational authority for strategy, relationships, proposals and delivery — within limits set by the board, never unlimited. May not bypass board authority or approve their own compensation.
Named at incorporation
Advisory council
Expertise and challenge, with no legal decision-making power. Composed of professionals spanning regional and professional backgrounds within the community. Listed publicly only with written consent — see the advisory network.
Board authority that is never bypassed
Bank accounts · grants and contracts above threshold · the annual budget · any change to mission or positioning · board appointments · founder compensation and related-party transactions · complaints and reputational risks. For ANBI compliance, no single person has decisive control, and the board holds no family or business-partner majority.
Beloningsbeleid — remuneration policy
- Board members
- Unpaid. Board members receive no salary and no fee for their work. They may be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred, and may receive a modest vacatiegeld within the limits ANBI rules allow.
- Executive director
- Any compensation is set by the board with the person concerned fully recused from the decision, recorded in the minutes with a conflict-of-interest declaration, and reported in the annual accounts.
- Staff
- The foundation has no employees at present. When it does, a staff remuneration policy is adopted by the board and published here, benchmarked against comparable Dutch civil-society organisations.
- Volunteers & advisors
- Unpaid, with expenses reimbursed where agreed in advance. No promise of future payment is ever made in exchange for volunteer work.
Activiteitenverslag — activities
Updated at least annually. This is the current-year summary.
- Reporting year
- 2026 — the foundation's first, partial year
- Institutional track
- Board formation, notarial incorporation, KVK and UBO registration, bank account application, liability insurance, adoption of interim policies (conflict of interest, code of conduct, volunteer policy, privacy, financial thresholds, funding transparency), and the ANBI application.
- Programme track
- Activating the advisory circle; a capped round of structured stakeholder and community listening interviews; producing the Feitenkaart Jemenitische Nederlanders; a first community insight briefing; and preparing the civic dialogue and mentorship formats.
- Annual report
- First edition after the close of the first full financial year
We report what happened, including what did not. An activity report that only lists successes is not a report — it is marketing with a date on it.
Financiële verantwoording — financial accountability
- Annual figures
- Pending — the first financial year has not yet closed. Balance sheet and statement of income and expenditure are published here once it does.
- Standaardformulier publicatieplicht
- Pending — the Belastingdienst standard ANBI publication form is completed and published here once ANBI status is granted and the first year has closed.
- Financial controls
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No foundation money in private accounts. Every expense carries a receipt, purpose, budget line and approval. The person receiving a payment never approves it alone. No cash. Monthly reconciliation. Grant funds are spent only against the grant budget.
Approval thresholds are graded: routine operational spend at the operational level; expenses above €250 require treasurer and chair; everything above €1,000 — plus all grant applications, contracts and partnerships — requires a board decision recorded in the minutes.
- Interim contracting
- Until the foundation's bank account is active, engagements may be contracted and invoiced through a disclosed interim route. That disclosure appears in writing on every quotation and invoice — never buried. The arrangement is time-limited to bank activation, and the board ratifies the transfer of activities and records at its first meeting afterwards.
Funding transparency
These rules go beyond what Dutch law requires of us. We adopt them voluntarily, so that any future rule finds us already compliant — and so that nobody ever has to wonder.
Commission the question, not the answer
A public body may commission the question. Nobody buys the answer. Nothing in an arrangement places conditions on our independence or on our conclusions.
If you are a municipality wondering whether our independence rules put us out of reach — they do not. They exist so that what we hand you is worth having.
Published above €2,500
Every donation above €2,500 is published — amount and country of origin — in the annual report and on this page.
Screened before accepted
Sanction screening on every partner and donor before acceptance. Anonymous donations above €500 are declined; below that they are logged.
Equal distance
Identical arm's-length posture toward every political actor.
Donations received above €2,500
None to date. When there are any, they are listed here with amount and country of origin — not summarised, not aggregated, listed.
Policies & documents
Adopted by the board as interim policies before incorporation, and confirmed at the first formal board meeting.
- Code of conduct
- Non-partisan conduct, the dialogue code (no hate speech, no mobilisation of imported conflict, trained facilitation, confidentiality of closed sessions), and professional boundaries. PDF at incorporation
- Privacy statement
- Published and live: what the forms on this site collect, the legal basis, who processes it and your rights — read the privacy statement. The wider internal policy it sits under (data register, consent scripts, retention schedule, restricted access, and no sensitive data without a defined purpose) follows at incorporation. Full policy at incorporation
- Conflict-of-interest policy
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Conflicts are declared in writing and recorded in a register. The conflicted person leaves the discussion; non-conflicted members decide; related-party transactions are justified in the minutes. Zero tolerance for private benefit from foundation funds, undisclosed payments to connected businesses, or use of confidential information for private gain.
Three structural conflicts are recorded in the register from day one and acknowledged in writing by every board member. Their binding effects are public: the foundation undertakes no trade, economic or sanctions-related policy work in its current phase, with any future entry requiring a board decision taken with the conflicted person fully recused; complete separation between the foundation and any board member's or director's personal or commercial activity — no shared flows, suppliers, clients or invoicing, ever, and no cross-linking of channels; and equal distance to all Yemeni political actors, including diplomatic missions.
- Volunteer policy
- Written roles, no promise of future payment, records of contributions, and a VOG where volunteers work with minors. PDF at incorporation
- Safeguarding
- Supervision and consent for work with young people; no pressure on anyone to share their trauma; referral rather than diagnosis.
- Complaints
- Write to governance@tharan.nl. You get an acknowledgement within seven days. The complaint is reviewed by a board member with no involvement in the matter, and logged confidentially. If a complaint concerns the director, the director does not handle it.
Where a figure is still marked pending
Items marked pending above are not yet available because the underlying step — the notarial deed, the KVK registration, the ANBI decision — has not happened yet. Each one is published here the day it exists, and never invented in the meantime. If you find something on this page that is out of date or wrong, write to us and we will correct it, and say that we did.
Questions about any of this?
Governance questions get a direct answer, not a brochure. That is rather the point of publishing the page.