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The Datatrust brings together data mainly from three official sources:

• The Crossroads Bank for Enterprises, which includes data such as the name of the company, its date of creation, its legal form, etc.

• The National Bank of Belgium, which includes the financial situation of companies, their balance sheet and their turnover

• The National Social Security Office, which records the number of full-time and part-time employees, age, gender etc. 

By pooling these data, we now have comprehensive, structured information on the social profit sector in Belgium that is easily accessible to everyone. The social profit sector is a broad sector that includes non-profit organisations, foundations, cooperatives, health mutual, health care, education, social services, culture, leisure, sports, social economy organisations, etc.

By compiling these three sources of data, the DataTrust brings together 140,000 references. The because site has selected companies of general interest from this global database. The selection was made on the basis of the companies' legal form and activity code. Of the 140,000 Datatrust references, because has selected 50,000, enabling the site to offer the most representative overview possible of what exists in Belgium in the social profit sector.

Unincorporated associations are the only segment of the social profit sector that is not included in DataTrust, since they are not obliged to be registered with the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises, nor to render accounts to the National Bank of Belgium, and are not included by the National Social Security Office if they only work with volunteers.

However, if the unincorporated associations wish so, they can be included in the because database via a registration form on the website.

The DataTrust was developed at the initiative of the King Baudouin Foundation in partnership with other organisations representing the social profit sector:

• Bruxeo (cross-sectoral confederation of employers representing the social profit sector and its enterprises – associations- in Brussels) 

• ConcertES (platform representing the social economy federations in Wallonia and Brussels) 

• UNIPSO (cross-sectoral confederation of employers representing the social profit sector and its enterprises - non-profit associations - In Wallonia and the French-speaking community in Belgium) 

• Unisoc (cross-sectoral representative confederation of all the Belgian social-profit employers at national level) 

• Verso (Interprofessional employers' federation for social enterprises in Flanders)