Publisher Guidance
Step 1. Celebrate your data
You’ve done the hard work to publish your grants data, it’s time to share your achievement.
Explore your data in our data tools
The day after you’ve submitted a link to your data file to our Data Quality Dashboard, your grants will appear in our tools GrantNav and GrantVis.
GrantNav
GrantNav is our flagship search engine for grants data. Now you’ve published, you can use it to search, sort and filter your own grants data. Have a play at filtering by programmes, locations and searching for causes or topics. This should give you an idea of the story your data tells, and how other people will see it.
GrantVis
GrantVis is a free tool to help people understand funders and grantmaking better. You can visualise your data with charts and an interactive map, plus we’ve added information from charity and company regulators to the data, so you can see the age, income and types of organisation you have funded.
Grants to Individuals Dashboard
If you fund grants to individuals, your data will appear in the Grants to Individuals Dashboard. You can use the funder view as an easy-to-share printable dashboard, showing a visual representation of your grantmaking.
Data Quality Dashboard
The Data Quality Dashboard shows the key features that make data useful. You can use the Dashboard to understand your own data, as well as the 360Giving dataset as a whole. It includes a list of all the organisations that currently publish their grants data in the 360Giving Data Standard, with direct links to their data sources. You can filter this list to see how the usefulness of your data compares to your peers’ by features like locations, organisation identifiers or grant durations.
Share the news about your data
Get your data publisher badge
If you haven’t already, add a 360Giving publisher badge to your organisation’s website to show that you have published your grants data using the 360Giving Data Standard.
Use our communications pack
Why not share this milestone with your networks? It shows your commitment to being open, transparent and strategic, and will inspire others to join the growing community of funders who share their data.
We want to celebrate the wide range of organisations choosing to use the 360Giving Data Standard, so we’ve put together a communications pack with resources and messages to help you make an announcement.
Further resources
Other ways to explore your data
As well as our data tools, GrantNav and GrantVis, there are a few other ways that people who are confident working with data can view and use the grants information in the 360Giving Data Standard.
- 360Giving API: This allows developers, researchers and data analysts to build digital tools and software applications that use 360Giving data.
- 360Giving Datastore: If someone has an analysis project or wants to build an application using 360Giving data, they can access the 360Giving Datastore to retrieve the data in bulk.
- Publishers’ files: Most 360Giving Data Standard data files are published in XLSX format, with a small number published as CSV and OpenDocument Spreadsheet or JSON data. These can all be downloaded from the Data Quality Dashboard or directly from publishers’ own websites.
You can find more details about all of these methods in our guide to exploring the data as a technical user.