The “Golden Key” award in the "NGO"category went to the team of the “Anti-Corruption Fund” Foundation for their hard work in investigating significant (and often sensitive) topics from Bulgarian public life. Some of their investigations even led to harassment of people from the organization's team.

In the last two years, the ACF has filed more than 30 ATI requests and has led numerous lawsuits against institutions that had refused access to public information.

The ACF led two lawsuits against the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency regarding animal carcass burning installations; one lawsuit against the Ministry of Energy, following the Ministry’s refusal of information on the transfer of cold reserve from one thermal power plant to another, the latter being owned by Ahmed Dogan (Dogan is the honorary chairman of a major political party that is notorious for its consistent backing of various Bulgarian governments since the fall of communism), ACF also had one lawsuit won against the Ministry of Health in connection with contracts for the delivery of Covid-19 masks and respirators. The contract was concluded between Bulgaria and China and were worth nearly have a billion euro.

The Civic Association "BOEC" (“BOEC” meaning “fighter”, an abbreviation for “Bulgaria United with One Goal”) received an honorary diploma for their battle for access to information, which they have won in four consecutive lawsuits:

1. against the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office for information about the work done by Ivan Geshev as a regular prosecutor (before he took the Prosecutor General’s position);

2. against the Specialized Prosecutor's Office regarding bonuses received by magistrates besides their monthly salaries;

3. against the Anti-Corruption Commission regarding the exact amount of funds withdrawn by the Commission (the request was filed after a commentary made by Bulgarian Prime Minister);

4. against the National Revenue Agency for information on written-off receivables, uncollected corporate tax and data related to the gambling business.