30 October 2024
People’s Postcode Lottery becomes the 300th 360Giving Data Standard publisher
20 Postcode Trusts have joined our ranks, taking us to over 300 grantmakers sharing their data using the 360Giving Data Standard.
22 October 2024
Making publishing smoother: Tell us about your systems!
It is now easier than ever for grantmakers to share their grants data – but we want to go further. Tell us more about the systems you use so that we can better design our support.
12 July 2024
Why we began publishing grants to individuals data - Masonic Charitable Foundation
In this guest blog, Jo Haffenden and Ames Petzoldt from the Masonic Charitable Foundation discuss the key principles and drivers that led them to publish data on grants to individuals and families alongside grants to organisations data. At the Masonic Charitable Foundation (MCF), the Freemason’s Charity, we have been publishing Charity Grants as 360Giving data […]
2 April 2024
UK government 360Giving publication adds 1 millionth grant to GrantNav
17 central UK Government departments publishing their 2022-23 grants data brings the total value of grants shared to over £265bn and over 1 million grants in GrantNav.
8 March 2018
Funders see potential of open data for whole sector
A push for transparency and a desire to improve grantmaking for the sector continues to drive funders to join our #greatergrantsdata movement by publishing their data to the 360Giving Standard. In the last two months, four more funders have published more than £13m worth of grants across a range of causes, taking the total value […]
5 March 2018
Letting data take the wheel
Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales supports small and medium-sized charities committed to delivering work which breaks or prevents cycles of disadvantage. Here, the Foundation’s Research and Data Analyst, Alex Van Vliet, explains how comparing its grantmaking data with other data openly available via 360Giving offers fascinating insight into the importance, relevance and future direction […]
17 January 2018
More than £6bn worth of open data released in last quarter of 2017
Seven more grantmakers have joined the #GreaterGrantsData movement by publishing their data to the 360Giving Standard, bringing the total value of open data to more than £17bn. It includes a major milestone – for the first time central government data has been released from the Department for Transport and the Ministry of Justice to a […]
27 November 2017
10 more funders share data to the 360Giving Standard highlighting diversity of support for open grantmaking
Since the end of September, 10 more grantmakers have joined the #greatergrantsdata movement by publishing their data to the 360Giving Standard, taking the total value of UK grants now openly available to almost £11bn. An additional £215m worth of grants data has been shared by a diverse range of funders including local councils, a community […]
3 October 2017
Nine new organisations swell 360Giving dataset
More than £10bn worth of grants are now been published to the 360Giving Standard with the addition of nine more grantmakers in the last two months. The new organisations include family, corporate and community foundations who collectively add £58m worth of grants, plus $404m from the Arcadia Fund, taking the total number of organisations that […]
2 October 2017
Press button data sharing a reality for Community Foundations
A new tool funded by 360Giving will make publishing data a doddle for community foundations that are using Salesforce to manage their grantmaking. The tool allows community foundations to automatically export data formatted to the 360Giving Standard cutting hours off the time it might otherwise take for them to prepare their data. The tool has […]
19 July 2017
Nine new publishers join 360Giving Open Data movement
A broad mix of funders are the latest to publish their grantmaking data using the 360Giving Standard. The nine new organisations range from larger national funders, smaller local foundations, a corporate foundation, three community foundations, a livery company, family funders. Together they take the total number of publishers to 43 and add another 2,730 grants […]
15 May 2017
New Publisher: Community Foundation Tyne & Wear and Northumberland
The Community Foundation Tyne & Wear and Northumberland inspires and supports giving that strengthens communities and enriches local life. It has built an endowment of nearly £75 million and has awarded more than £100 million in grants. It has now published grants awarded between April 2015 and March 2016 – a total of 1284 worth […]
12 May 2017
New Publisher: Barrow Cadbury Trust
Committed to structural and long-term catalytic social change, Barrow Cadbury Trust works in the areas of criminal justice, migration, and economic justice. It grants in excess of £3m a year and has now published grant-making data going back to April 2012 to the 360Giving Open Data Standard. This adds 397 grants worth £13,504,355 to the […]
7 April 2016
Opening up Lloyds Bank Foundation – why we’ve published open grants data and what we plan to do next
Lloyds Bank Foundation published data from over 4,000 grants made between 2010 and 2015 in line with 360Giving’s open data standard, joining a growing band of grantmakers in the UK.