King Baudouin Foundation
Belgium’s largest public benefit foundation streamlines operations with Boomi to optimize resources and philanthropic initiatives.
Business goals
The King Baudouin Foundation, a leading European charity, provides personalized philanthropic services to corporations and individuals, distributing €133M grants annually to 4,360 organizations and individuals.
Following the 2019 COVID pandemic, the foundation doubled its grant-making capacity, expanded its team, and increased its business systems. This rapid growth led to operational challenges and data management complexities, prompting the need to optimize grant-making and donation management processes to better serve stakeholders.
Integration Challenges
The King Baudouin Foundation’s complex application landscape included a legacy ERP system with integration challenges. Its grants and donations teams used separate platforms for various data sources, requiring manual data entry, reconciliation, and contract management.
These independent systems and time-consuming processes hindered grant allocation, and timely beneficiary support. The foundation’s IT team sought a robust integration solution to connect disparate systems, improve data flows, and enhance transparency, enabling the business to scale and efficiently handle growing philanthropic activities.
How Boomi Helped
Along with Blents, its integration partner, the King Baudouin Foundation chose the Boomi Enterprise Platform to integrate its Unit4 ERP, Salesforce, and online donation platforms. Boomi automated data flows, eliminated errors, and optimized resources, increasing operational efficiencies.
The platform’s suite of services enabled the foundation to streamline integrations, improve data governance, and focus on strategic activities. This improved efficiency and scalability supported rapid growth by processing large volumes of donations and data without compromising performance.
Results
Boomi enabled the King Baudouin Foundation to transform its operations and significantly enhance collaboration among all stakeholders, leading to:
- Annual cost savings of €500K by eliminating manual integrations and data uploads
- Data accuracy and consistency, improving compliance and reporting
- Increased transparency with automated information flows to the foundation’s website
- Scalability to adapt to unique requirements
- Faster decision-making with real-time access to accurate, up-to-date data
