On Thursday 21 March 2024, 17 central UK Government departments published their 2022-23 grants data in the 360Giving Data Standard, bringing the total value of grants to over £265bn and over 1 million grants in GrantNav. 360Giving has reached an exciting new milestone with over 1 million grants published using the 360Giving Data Standard! This […]

A new hub for UK Grantmaking data and insights coming in 2024. We are pleased to announce the launch of UK Grantmaking, a collaborative project to develop a new platform that will bring together data on the landscape of grantmaking in the UK. The new platform will strengthen grantmaking understanding, collaboration, decision-making, strategy and practice […]

Following on from the publication of brand new analysis for the Access to Justice Foundation, we’re sharing what we have learnt along the way. The 360Giving team were pleased to work with the Access to Justice Foundation on a  new report analysing funding for ‘Specialist Legal Advice Providers’, and the broader size and scope of […]

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 […]

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, […]

Th visualisations in this blog are out of date. Please visit threesixtygiving.org/data for up to date visualisations and statistics.  Since 360Giving was formally constituted in July 2015, we’ve been working towards our vision of more informed and effective grantmaking through normalising open data sharing. As we reach a critical mass of funders publishing their grants […]

Giving Tuesday is a day of global giving, where everyone, everywhere can do something to support the good causes that mean so much to them. To mark it, we’ve taken to our search engine for grants data, GrantNav, to explore the significance of Tuesday for grantmaking!  At 360Giving, we help funders in the UK publish […]

The end of June was a time of pride. 🏳️‍🌈 To help mark it, I analysed 360Giving data to understand grants made to LGBTQI+ causes.  It was also a good excuse to use some of the new principles I learned from the book Data Feminism, by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, and see if […]

In a new report, published today, we’ve set out a process for discovering and analysing ‘below the radar’ organisations working in communities across the UK.  The report uses 360Giving data – published openly by UK funders in the 360Giving Data Standard – to identify a set of organisations that receive grants from UK foundations but […]

The term ‘left behind’ has featured increasingly in social policy discussions in recent years. Here, Stefan Noble from OCSI shares how they have been working with Local Trust to develop a quantitative measure of left-behind areas using open data. As part of this, for the first time, a Community Needs Index has been created, including […]