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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 […]

The 360Giving API is now live! Learn more about how you can use it in your systems. We are pleased to share that the 360Giving API is now live! This tool is designed to streamline access to 360Giving data, making it easier than ever for technical users to harness this information for research, analysis, and […]

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.

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.

How a data strategy and positive data culture can help grantmakers get the most out of their data.

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.

Our networks are safe spaces to share learning, connect with peers and to discuss proposed changes and updates to the 360Giving Data Standard.

In response to the cost of living crisis funders are making changes to their grant programmes and existing grants, and by recording the data accordingly funders can contribute to their collective impact.

In this blog we share some of the issues that we have been exploring around geography and location data, and what we are planning to do next to move things forward.

Our GrantNav upgrade helps you to understand further who, what and where is funding going to.

David Kane is a data scientist and researcher and has over ten years experience working with charity data. He is also the Product Lead at 360Giving, a charity that helps funders publish open data about their grants, and empowers people to use this data to improve charitable giving. You can use 360Giving’s search engine for […]

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, […]

We’re excited to be celebrating our sixth birthday today, and to be launching a new and improved version of our flagship tool, GrantNav, our search engine for grants data. We reflect on how GrantNav has progressed over the past five years, and highlight how you can make the most of its new functionality.  GrantNav is […]

[Figures in this blog were updated on 5th July 2021, following an update to the Government published data on 2nd July 2021] On 24th June 2021, the UK Government published data on £490m worth of grants that it made in response to the COVID-19 crisis, in the 360Giving Data Standard.  This means that the data […]

Data Champions facilitator, Dirk Slater, share insights from the final workshop of the programme on what a data strategy is and how to develop one using our Data Strategy Canvas template.

In this blog, Data Champions facilitator Dirk Slater shares insights on how to encourage leaders to work with data, and techniques for communication from the workshop.