Using 360Giving data as a researcher or analyst
You can use 360Giving to understand how funding shapes the issues you’re researching.
See how funders support particular causes, find related work, and build a clear picture of grantmaking patterns across the UK
What 360Giving data helps you do
360Giving data shows who is funding what, where and when.
As a researcher, you can use it to:
- Explore a theme or sector
- See which organisations have funded particular causes or sectors
- See which organisations have funded particular causes or sectors
- Understand who gets funded
- Find organisations working on an issue you’re researching
- See who funds them, and how funding varies
- Look at grant amounts, durations, and distribution
- Improve your analysis
- Combine grantmaking data with other sources
- Identify trends, gaps, or concentrations in funding
- Ground your research in reproducible, well-structured data
How to use 360Giving tools and data
1. Start with GrantNav to explore the data
Grantnav, the 360Giving search engine, is the quickest way to see what’s in the 360Giving dataset. It’s useful for scoping a topic, or downloading an initial set of grants.
You can
- Find funders
- Identify relevant organisations
- See grants linked to a cause, sector or place
- Download grants data
Our How to Search guides show you how to do the most common GrantNav searches.
2. Understand how the data is structured
Our Technical Information explains:
- How metadata and codelists are used
- Learn about 360Giving data
- How the 360Giving Data Standard works
- The full schema documentation for the Standard
- What each field and identifier means
- How metadata and codelists are used in published data
- How the data is structured in different formats
3. Use the API or Datastore
If you need bulk data or repeatable queries, use the 360Giving API or the 360Giving Datastore.
The API
The 360Giving API returns that same data used in GrantNav. It’s designed for targeted queries. It’s not built for full dataset downloads or complex joins.
The 360Giving Datastore
The 360Giving Datastore provides direct read-only SQL access to the full dataset. It’s designed for large or complex queries that cannot be served through the API.
After a short conversation to check if the Datastore is the right option for your analysis. If it is, we’ll give you access through a secure Google Colab notebook using time-limited credentials.
For detailed information on the API or datastore, see Exploring the data as a technical user.
More tools for researchers
- UKGrantmaking
See patterns across regions, themes and funders. Including a dataset of UK grantmakers. - 360Insights
Explore focused themes and topics linked to your work - 360Giving Resources
To help you use grants data to answer your questions and inform your decision-making
Get help using data
We can help you interpret grants data or understand what you’re seeing.
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