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If you’re a funder, you can use UKGrantmaking to provide context for your work and see how your grantmaking compares to peers and the broader grantmaking field. As a funder, your grant data can also contribute to these insights. Find out what analysis of over 80,000 grant records can tell you and how, with your help, we can make the 2025 edition of UKGrantmaking even better.

UKGrantmaking is a new interactive platform with information about grantmaking by UK funders. We want this data to be used and useful, so share your thoughts with us and help us to improve this resource. UKGrantmaking is here! In June we launched a new collaborative resource— UKGrantmaking— which is an open and free-to-use interactive platform […]

We are pleased to announce the launch of UK Grantmaking, a collaborative project to develop a new platform that will bring together data on the landscape of grantmaking in the UK.

The Grantmaking 2021-22 Snapshot serves as an interactive and accessible resource for anyone interested in exploring grantmaking data through a wealth of data compiled from multiple sources.

Following on from the publication of brand new analysis for the Access to Justice Foundation, we’re sharing what we have learnt along the way.

We’re exploring the concept of regranting, explaining what we have seen in the data, and outlining what we’re doing next to support understanding regranting in the 360Giving Data Standard.

Data shared by 174 grantmakers on their Covid relief and recovery funding – covering 66,000 grants worth almost £2.4 billion – has been analysed and summarised by David Kane (Analysis Lead, 360Giving) in newly-published interactive research. Key findings from the report show that funders acted quickly and responsively, and adapted approaches to reach communities disproportionately […]

An important part of funding is understanding the impact those grants are having. However this is difficult when there are inconsistencies with how data is collected, managed and analysed. Below, Dr Emma Horrigan – City Bridge Trust’s Data Analyst and recent 360Giving Data Champion – shares how she compares their past and present performance consistently, […]

As we reach a critical mass of funders publishing their grants data, we take the opportunity to reflect on how the 360Giving data has changed and grown over time. 

On Thursday 25 March 2021, 16 central UK Government departments published their 2019-20 grants data in the 360Giving Data Standard, and updated data about their 2017-18 grants.   The new data covers 52,682 general grants that were active in 2019-20 worth a total of £31.8bn awarded to 22,140 recipients. At the same time, data for […]

To mark Giving Tuesday, we’ve taken to our search engine for grants data, GrantNav, to explore the significance of Tuesday for grantmaking! 

Danny Kruger MP’s report. ‘Levelling Up Our Communities’, on civil society and recovery after the coronavirus pandemic and beyond, has been published with key proposals around data and digital innovation.

The end of June was a time of pride. 🏳️‍🌈 To help mark it, I analysed 360Giving data to understand grants made to LGBTQI+ causes.  It was also a good excuse to use some of the new principles I learned from the book Data Feminism, by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, and see if […]

In a new report, published today, we’ve set out a process for discovering and analysing ‘below the radar’ organisations working in communities across the UK.  The report uses 360Giving data – published openly by UK funders in the 360Giving Data Standard – to identify a set of organisations that receive grants from UK foundations but […]

In 2018, 360Giving invited developers, researchers and anyone with an interest in the data to use our dataset to develop and visualise innovative solutions to two key questions facing the grantmaking sector.

The term ‘left behind’ has featured increasingly in social policy discussions in recent years. Here, Stefan Noble from OCSI shares how they have been working with Local Trust to develop a quantitative measure of left-behind areas using open data. As part of this, for the first time, a Community Needs Index has been created, including […]

We ran a Data Dive with DataKind UK looking at funding to the criminal justice sector in the UK, linking 360Giving data to other datasets to see what we could find.

In this phase of our Challenge Fund – Digging the Data – we will try to answer questions about open data through a Data Visualisation Competition and Data Journey programme.