31 March 2025
£300 billion worth of grants have been published using the 360Giving Data Standard
The 360Giving community has reached another milestone, sharing open grants data representing over £300 billion worth of funding.
25 March 2025
It's easier than ever to prepare and improve your data with our upgraded Data Quality Tool
We’ve updated our Data Quality Tool with a new look to improve usability and make the feedback it provides clearer, so that it’s easier for you to prepare, improve and submit your grants data.
15 November 2024
How 360Giving data shapes the stories in UKGrantmaking
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.
30 October 2024
People’s Postcode Lottery becomes the 300th 360Giving Data Standard publisher
20 Postcode Trusts have joined our ranks, taking us to over 300 grantmakers sharing their data using the 360Giving Data Standard.
22 October 2024
Making publishing smoother: Tell us about your systems!
It is now easier than ever for grantmakers to share their grants data – but we want to go further. Tell us more about the systems you use so that we can better design our support.
12 July 2024
Why we began publishing grants to individuals data - Masonic Charitable Foundation
In this guest blog, Jo Haffenden and Ames Petzoldt from the Masonic Charitable Foundation discuss the key principles and drivers that led them to publish data on grants to individuals and families alongside grants to organisations data. At the Masonic Charitable Foundation (MCF), the Freemason’s Charity, we have been publishing Charity Grants as 360Giving data […]
2 April 2024
UK government 360Giving publication adds 1 millionth grant to GrantNav
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.
5 October 2023
Buttle UK and publishing data on grants to individuals and families
Jessie Adams (Impact and Evaluation Manager) shares the motivations for Buttle UK supporting the project and being one of the first funders to publish their data on grants to individuals.
2 June 2023
Launching a new way to identify regranting
The 360Giving Data Standard has been updated to enable funders to identify their grants intended for regranting.
17 April 2023
Get started with grants to individuals in the 360Giving Data Standard
The 360Giving Data Standard has been updated to support sharing data about grants to individuals.
28 September 2022
Cost of Living Crisis: Guidance on tagging grants
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.
15 August 2022
Grants to Individuals Project
In this blog we share plans for the development of the 360Giving Data Standard to reflect a wider range of grants, and future updates to 360Giving tools.
20 April 2022
Geography consultation
This consultation sets out the details of a proposed update to the 360Giving Data Standard arising from the discussions shared in the Geography Working Group.
19 April 2022
Regranting consultation
Consultation on proposed changes to the 360Giving Data Standard as a result of research into regranting and multi-funder collaborations.
30 March 2022
Where do grants go? – Working with geography in the 360Giving Data Standard
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.
30 March 2022
Following the money – Exploring regrants in the 360Giving Data Standard
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.
14 February 2022
Getting started with our new Complete Guide to Publishing
Covering planning, preparing and publishing, here’s an introduction to our guide on publishing your grants data using the 360Giving Data Standard.
18 August 2021
Over 200 funders now publishing their grants data
We’ve reached a new milestone, with grants from over 200 funders now available to explore in GrantNav. We showcase the diversity of grantmakers publishing their grants data and celebrate this milestone. We’re delighted to announce that over 200 funders have published their grants data in the 360Giving Data Standard. This means that data on almost […]
30 March 2021
Extending the 360Giving Data Standard - a shared approach to equity data
Over the past year, we’ve been developing a shared taxonomy for equalities data to support funders to understand the equity of their grantmaking. Several funders have expressed an interest to record this data with their 360Giving grants data so we are now looking to add a DEI Data Extension to the 360Giving Data Standard. In […]
2 November 2020
The UK Government has published its 2018-19 grants data in the 360Giving Data Standard
16 central UK Government have joined the UK’s leading trusts and foundations by publishing open data about the grants they have made using the 360Giving Data Standard