Using 360Giving data as a funder
You can use 360Giving data to understand how your funding fits into the wider picture.
Explore who else supports the same charities or causes, review your own grants, and understand the wider grantmaking picture.
What 360Giving data helps you do
360Giving data shows who is funding what, where and when.
As a funder, you can use it to:
- Explore organisations and themes
- Check who funds organisations you support, or are considering supporting
- Explore grants linked to a cause or location
- Compare funding
- See how your grants align or overlap with others
- Spot funders working on the same issues or in the same places
- Find gaps, overlaps or chances to work with others
How to use 360Giving tools and data
1. Answer a specific question
If you have a clear question – like “which organisations work on mental health for young people in Manchester?” – start with our How to Search guides. All these routes use GrantNav, the search engine for grants data published using the 360Giving Data Standard.
They show you how to:
- Find funders
See who else support the same causes or place - Find recipients
Explore what has been been funded, and by whom - Find grants by cause or location
Explore how grants are spread across topics and areas
2. Understand the wider landscape
If you want a bigger picture to help with strategy and planning, use our dashboards:
- UKGrantmaking
See patterns across regions, themes and funders - 360Insights
Explore focused themes and topics linked to your work
More tools for funders
- Using grants data and UKGrantmaking for sector insights and benchmarking
- All our resources to help you use grants data to answer your questions and inform your decision-making
Get help using data
We can help you work with grants data, so you can make sense of what you find and explore your questions with confidence. Whether you’re a single funder or a group working across organisations, we can support you to use grants data more effectively.