INCOME TAX 1% TRACKER BY THE CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE MEDIA
WHO GOT THE 1% IN 2026
Hungarian taxpayers can direct 1% of their income tax to a civil-society organisation. This is the media & journalism slice of that money, matched against their 2025 figures. How the 1% scheme works ↗
The top
Each arrow runs from the organisation's 2025 amount to its 2026 amount. The top are grouped into bands of comparable size, each drawn on its own linear axis fitted to that band. Click any row for the detail.
The other organisations
Together they received , or of the media total, and the largest of them got . They run from weeklies and watchdog outfits just outside the top down to village papers and community TV stations funded by a handful of donors.
Where the money moved
Media outgrew the rest
All beneficiaries on the 2026 list received between them, up on 2025. Media-related organisations grew three times faster, and added donors in a year when the donor pool as a whole shrank.
The average designation across all beneficiaries rose from to per donor, up . The vs donor average figures — in the table above and in each detail panel — deflate 2026 by that rise, so they show what an organisation gained beyond what every beneficiary got from donors designating more. Flat in forint terms reads as . This is a benchmark against the typical designation, not consumer-price inflation.