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.

2024-2025

By March 2025, 320 funders shared data on more than 1.25 million grants worth over £300 billion. But our impact comes from people accessing and using this data to inform decision-making and influence better grantmaking, which we saw with our exponential growth, including 125,000 people using our data tools during the year and over 12,000 people exploring the data and insights in our research and analysis reports. 

This year we focused on making it easier for people to share, access and use the data, significantly advancing our strategy to unleash the impact of grants data. We developed new and improved tools, created guidance on using the data, and consolidated our work in platforms like the new 360Insights hub which hosts our research and  analysis.

The biggest highlight was the launch of the first edition of UKGrantmaking in June 2024 – now the definitive annual publication on grant funding in the UK. We brought together a powerful collaboration  to create a platform bringing together data and insights on over £20 billion of funding from over 13,000 grantmakers.

This established a data analysis approach we can repeat and build on in future years, and achieved a reach and impact that exceeded our expectations with over 9,000 people accessing the platform in the first nine months after launch to explore what the grantmaking picture means for their work

Our work this year has built a shared infrastructure for sharing and using open grants data, with a sustained impact that will continue to grow as the role of the data deepens across grantmaking.

Previous annual reports:

• 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.