About Kompas Foundation
A Dutch foundation building free, private, multilingual tools for the people most public services do not reach.
Why we started
Kompas Foundation was started by two professionals combining management and innovation skills with years of experience in enterprise architecture and building complex systems at scale. They know how to build things that hold — and they know who should have access to them.
The tools that help people understand their finances, their rights, the letters they receive have never reached the people who need them most. Language barriers. Digital exclusion. Shame. The help that existed required Dutch, required appointments, required sitting across from a stranger. Kompas is our answer to that gap.
What we believe
If a tool requires Dutch, an appointment, money, or the willingness to expose yourself to a stranger, it has already excluded the people who need it most. We build differently.
We do not solve problems for people. We give them the understanding and confidence to solve problems themselves. The goal is that they need us less, not more. A compass shows north. It does not walk the road for you.
The standard approach is to build for the majority and reach the margins later. In practice, later never comes. We start with the people who are hardest to reach and build outward from there.
The foundation
Kompas Foundation is a Dutch stichting, structured as a public benefit organisation. We do not generate revenue. We do not store user data. We do not serve commercial interests. Everything we build is free to use and designed to remain so.
Stichting (foundation) under Dutch law, in formation
Application in progress with the Belastingdienst
The Netherlands
2026
Grants, philanthropic foundations, and public institutions. Not advertising or user fees.
Get involved
Whether you are a funder, a municipality, a partner organisation, or someone who simply believes in what we are building, we want to hear from you.