The 360Giving Data Standard has been updated to enable funders to identify their grants intended for regranting. Background Over the past year, 360Giving has been working on a project to enable grantmakers to identify grants that are intended for onward distribution, or ‘regranting’, in their 360Giving data. This was a need identified in response to […]

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. People want to know where funding is going in the UK, but there are currently some challenges in how location data is handled in […]

Update: Following the exploration described in this blog, we launched the ability to identify grants intended for regranting in the 360Giving Data Standard. Read our regranting launch blog to find out more. In this blog, we’re exploring the concept of regranting, explaining what we have seen in the data, and outlining what we’re doing next […]

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. What is the new update? As we announced in a previous blog on the most recent GrantNav upgrade, it is now possible to view the results of your GrantNav search in 360Insights, our free tool to help you 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, […]

In response to the coronavirus crisis, some funders are making changes to what their grants are funding. By updating their existing grants data accordingly, funders can contribute to the bigger picture of how projects and organisations are being affected, and the changes being made in response. Here, we set out guidance on how funders can […]

Guest post by Dirk Slater, FabRiders – a strategic social change consultancy Over the past eight months we’ve been developing a network of Data Champions working in community foundations across the UK. The initiative is a collaboration between 360Giving, FabRiders and UK Community Foundations. In April 2019 we held a workshop focusing on how to strengthen […]

Back in 2018 we focused some of our labs work on organisational identifiers – the important numbers that help us to differentiate between organisations. We wrote a bit about identifiers and why they are important here and here. Our work last year focussed on how many of the grantmakers publishing to the 360Giving Standard are […]

Guest post by Rob Redpath, Open Data Services Co-operative. ODSC works closely with the 360Giving team, providing tools and support for publishers and users of 360Giving data. If you want to find data that is published in the 360Giving Standard, you can go to the 360Giving Registry. To understand which files are relevant to you, […]