Jar
Foundation jar
The Foundation’s own jar. Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay.
Saved
1 380 040 UAH
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Registered charity · Sumy, Ukraine
Protecting Sumyand its people since 2014
The Community Foundation “Sumy” helps a city 30 kilometres from the Russian border hold on: humanitarian aid and hospitals, first-aid kits and training that save lives, generators and communications, protection from drone attacks, and supplies for those who defend Sumy. Every purchase goes into the ledger and into a public report.
Sumy sits 30 kilometres from the Russian border
Since the full-scale invasion
What has passed through the Foundation
50,5 M UAH
Put to work
2022–2026
811
Purchases in reports
How to help
Help Sumy hold on
To the Foundation’s accountThe Foundation directs it where it’s most neededBank details, from abroadIBAN and foreign currency accounts
Standing accounts and bank details
The Foundation uses these accounts to cover small but critical, urgent needs: from medicine and generators to equipment for those who protect the city.
Monthly
Regular support
The same amount once a month. Cancel any time in the app.
Subscribers
87
Per month
from 50 UAH
Opens on base.monobank.ua
Subscription levelsContributions are credited to the Charity Organisation “Community Foundation Sumy” (EDRPOU 39364679). Transfers are charitable donations and are not refundable. Funds go to supplying the Defence Forces — units in the Sumy region and soldiers from Sumy on other fronts — and to helping civilians affected by the war.
About
Eleven years on the border
The Foundation was created by Sumy’s volunteer community in 2014, when the war in the east began. By 2022 more than 10 million hryvnias had passed through it: equipment, gear and food for soldiers in Donbas, tactical medicine training, work with the families of the fallen.
On 24 February 2022 the Sumy region became one of the first directions of the invasion. Everyone connected to the Foundation gathered on Kuznechna Street, where the office used to be. The first days were chaos: humanitarian aid knee-deep and no division of work. In early March the flows were separated — food, medicine, gear, equipment — and the decision was made to cover what helps carry out combat tasks and save lives.
We supply units in the Sumy region and soldiers from Sumy serving in the Defence Forces on other fronts.
01
We cover the expensive things
Personal gear for soldiers is covered by the state’s partners. We take what they do not have: vehicles, thermal imagers, sights, quadcopters, border surveillance cameras.
02
We verify the need
If we do not understand how exactly a thing will be used, we decline. Expensive equipment goes to a unit, never to one person.
03
Training first, kits second
NATO-standard first-aid kits are not handed out on request: the unit takes a tactical medicine course first. Four hours for the basic level, two days for the full one.
04
No salaries
Foundation volunteers take no salary: donations go to purchases. The Foundation’s administration — accounting and reporting — was financially supported by the International Renaissance Foundation.
Regular support
Monthly subscription
A subscription charges the same amount every month. The Foundation uses this money to cover small, urgent needs of the soldiers.
87
subscribers
Tourist
50 грнper month
You care about what happens to Sumy, whatever city you are from.
SubscribeSumy local
100 грнper month
You follow what is going on here. Sumy thanks you.
SubscribeSumyanyn
250 грнper month
A serious level. People like this stand out.
SubscribeSumchara
500 грнper month
A legend. Every good rumour in this city is about you.
SubscribeSumilye
1 000 грнper month
A noble one. The patronage tradition the Kharytonenko family began in Sumy now runs through you.
SubscribeTovstosum
2 500 грнper month
Fire support. Your donations are felt on the front line.
SubscribeHow it works
Pick an amount, subscribe in monobank, the payment repeats monthly. You can cancel in the app at any moment — no calls, no emails.
Where the money goes
Spending by direction
Every purchase in the ledger, grouped by what was bought. Humanitarian and protective needs come first; amounts are exactly as in the ledger.
Humanitarian aid
916 980 UAH
55 purchases
Hospitals
584 744 UAH
27 purchases
First aid
6 019 421 UAH
80 purchases
Power
3 062 067 UAH
51 purchases
Communications
3 887 452 UAH
86 purchases
Drone defence
7 194 678 UAH
69 purchases
Vehicles
3 712 677 UAH
17 purchases
Vehicle repairs
2 414 760 UAH
81 purchases
Gear
2 014 095 UAH
19 purchases
Surveillance cameras
1 403 231 UAH
64 purchases
Fortifications
1 448 009 UAH
83 purchases
Thermal & night vision
6 700 058 UAH
38 purchases
Drones
7 862 903 UAH
88 purchases
What was handed over
All photos Photo reports
What arrived. Faces are covered — the safety of people on positions requires it.
Accountability
Foundation reports
Every month we publish what came in and what it was spent on. The reports cover all money: what reached the Foundation’s official accounts and what volunteers raised on their own cards and jars for the Foundation’s campaigns.
October 2026
- Received
- 445 465 UAH
- Spent
- 879 899 UAH
Largest purchases this month
- Доплата за електромеханічну конструкцію для захисту від оптоволоконних дронів425 000 UAH
- 3 металеві триноги240 000 UAH
- Детектор дронів86 000 UAH
- Внесок у збір на детектори та засоби протидії дронам54 075 UAH
- Зарядна станція для НРК30 037 UAH
Last 12 monthsReceivedSpent
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Media partner
What Cukr does
Since 2022 the Foundation’s communications have been run by Cukr — a Sumy outlet funded by its own readers. Cukr announces the campaigns, prepares the monthly reports and shows where the money went.
The Foundation and Cukr are separate organisations. The Foundation raises and buys, Cukr tells the story. No donations go to Cukr’s accounts.
We have to come up with ways to make our campaign more interesting than another campaign, or simply than other content on social media.
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Get in touch
Address
Kuznechna street 2, Sumy, 40030, Ukraine
EDRPOU 39364679