Our impact

We have supported hundreds of funders to publish their data using the 360Giving Data Standard. The grantmakers who have shared their data range from central government departments, lottery distributors, and major charitable foundations; to local giving schemes, community foundations, charities, and small trustee-run family trusts. Our success so far means a critical mass of information is now available, which is transforming how funders, charities, researchers, and policymakers understand grantmaking in the UK. 

To further drive this transformation we have built tools that make grants data easy to access and use, and support people to develop the skills they need to do so. Our work is creating real and meaningful change with over 100,000 people exploring the data and hundreds of people attending our workshops each year, supporting the sector to be more informed, effective, and strategic.

Culture and practice around grants data has come a long way since we were founded in 2015, and we celebrate that publishing data openly is becoming expected practice for grantmakers in the UK. But while there is now more grants data available than ever before, there is also further to go: on the number of funders publishing their grants data, the scope and quality of the information they are sharing, and towards funders using this data both in their day-to-day work and strategically. Our small team is focused on addressing these challenges with purpose, openness, and curiosity, to unleash the impact of grants data. 

Annual reports

You can read more about our impact, challenges, and learning in our annual reports.

2025-26 Final Report to January 2026

Reflecting on our legacy, looking to our future

This year marks a significant turning point in 360Giving’s history. 

We celebrated our 10th Anniversary in July. What began over a decade ago as an ambitious project has evolved into the cornerstone of UK philanthropic infrastructure. When we launched the 360Giving Data Standard, the goal was to create a common language for grants. Ten years later, that “common language” is the industry norm.

We have reached extraordinary milestones that once felt out of reach:

• Over 1.3 million grants are now openly available for analysis.
• These grants represent more than £300 billion in funding.
• A coalition of over 330 funders – from small family trusts and community foundations to major government departments and lottery distributors – now publish their data using the 360Giving Data Standard.
• Over 100,000 people access and use the data from our platforms each year

While we reflected on our legacy, we also looked to the future. In December 2025, following careful deliberation, the Trustees made the strategic decision to merge our operations with Funders Together, effective from 1st February 2026. 

This report provides a summary of the year for the legal entity from April 2025 to January 2026. While it marks a formal transition, it is certainly not the end of 360Giving.

Since our inception over a decade ago, we have transformed the way the funding sector shares and understands data, supporting grantmaking to become more informed, effective, and strategic. We have witnessed firsthand the value generated when funders use data and insight to collaborate and tackle systemic issues. Our ambition has always been to see more funders coming together in this way, which is why joining Funders Together is a major step toward a stronger, more collaborative national funding infrastructure.

By pooling our collective strengths, expertise, and networks, we will increase our impact across the UK. Our shared ambition is to strengthen the voluntary sector through:

• Shared knowledge and peer learning.
• Rigorous research and data-informed insights.
• Influencing policy and practice through collective action.

For 360Giving, this is a natural evolution. It is the next step in our relationship and collaboration with London Funders and Funders Together, building on the successful work we have already done together and the impact it has had so far.

The transfer agreement includes a requirement to continue our activities under the 360Giving name for at least three years – though our collective ambition is for it to continue far beyond that. It remains “business as usual” for our current work while opening up new opportunities for the future that this development brings. 

Although this report marks the closure of the legal entity, the work of 360Giving is very much continuing. This is not an end, but a powerful new chapter.

Previous annual reports:

• 2024-25 – We focused on making it easier for people to share, access and use the data – including new and improved tools, guidance on using the data, and consolidated our work in platforms like the new 360Insights hub which hosts our research and analysis. We also successfully launched the first edition of UKGrantmaking.
• 2023-24 – Stepping up our activities, we consolidated the changes of our strategy and built on them to realise its impact, with a significant increase in people using the data, new partnerships, and greater collaboration.
• 2022-23 – With the launch of our 2022-27 strategy 360Giving had a transformative year, changing our ways of working as we launched new analysis reports, workshops and training events, and enhancements to the Data Standard.
• 2021-22 – We achieved many of our long-term goals, reaching a critical mass of funders sharing their data and embedding both publishing and using grants data deeper through our partnerships, support, and peer networks.
• 2020-21 – As funders across sectors responded to the pandemic we focused on supporting them, and met a surge of interest in how our work could help them to do so.
• 2019-20 – We made progress on many of our strategic goals, increasing funders  sharing their data and building networks and partnerships to share learning about how to use that data effectively.