Get support with grants data

20 Postcode Trusts have joined our ranks, taking us to over 300 grantmakers sharing their data using the 360Giving Data Standard.

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. 

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.

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

We have recently updated GrantNav, based on user research we carried out to better understand its users. We hope the new version will better meet users needs. 

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 […]

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 […]

Our Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In November, we launched our second programme with 32 participants from a variety of grantmaking organisations. In this blog, the second of two, we hear from some of them about how they work with data […]

Our Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In November 2020, we launched our second programme with 32 participants from a variety of grantmaking organisations. In this blog, the first of two, we hear from some of them about how they work with […]

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

In August 2020, 360Giving and Open Data Manchester co-hosted a Data Expedition for a group of budding data enthusiasts. Through five online workshops, the group worked with data from ‘start to finish’: identifying a question, finding and using data to answer it and finally telling a story with it. Here, Oliver Carrington from Imperial Health […]

We spoke to our new Trustee Farah Ahmed, Head of Market Development, Digital Identity at DCMS about the civil service, how attitudes towards data have changed, and what excites her about joining 360Giving.

We spoke to our new Trustee Jo Kerr, Director of Innovation and Impact at Turn2us about the changes in digital, technology and data in charities, and what excites her about joining 360Giving.

We spoke to our new Trustee Jon Cracknell, Trust Secretary of the Ecology Trust about his experiences in environmental philanthropy, and what excites him about joining 360Giving.

We spoke to our new Trustee Bonnie Chiu, Managing Director at The Social Investment Consultancy about women’s empowerment, the value of young trustees and what excites her about joining 360Giving.