Disability organizations constitute an important part of the Slovenian non-governmental sector. Despite the legal possibility of developing revenue-generating activities and the growing demand for services amid limited public funds, the role of revenue-generating activities in the financial stability of disability organizations remains empirically unexplored. Funding is predominantly public, with the Foundation for the Financing of Disability and Humanitarian Organizations in the Republic of Slovenia and the Ministry of Labor, Family, Social Affairs, and Equal Opportunities serving as the key sources. The purpose of this thesis was to determine the impact of revenue-generating activities on the financial stability of disability organizations at the national level in Slovenia. We analysed 32 disability organizations operating at the national level that received FIHO funding in 2024. We formulated a hypothesis predicting that organizations with a higher proportion of revenue from revenue-generating activities experience less fluctuation in their accounting results. To collect data, we used annual reports available from the Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Public Legal Records and Services. We tested the hypothesis using correlation and time series analyses. The hypothesis was not confirmed. We found that revenue-generating activities account for a small or negligible share of total revenue, and that the financial stability is based on stable public funding sources. This thesis provides an empirical overview of revenue-generating activities and self-financing sources for disability organizations at the national level in Slovenia. The results are directly applicable to organizations and to policymakers, who gain insight into the limitations of revenue-generating activities.
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