The Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB) finances its scientific work mainly out of three sources: the basic financial stock of the Federal State of Berlin, the raised third-party funds of public sponsors as well as funds of industrial cooperation. In 2010 the trend of further reduction of public financing and an over-proportional increase in third-party project allocations continued. Despite a difficult financial situation ZIB was able to acquire interesting research projects and thus remains a sought cooperation partner for large-scale and medium-sized innovative companies. 75 % of the scientific research work was financed by third-party funds.