Covering planning, preparing and publishing, here’s an introduction to our guide on publishing your grants data using the 360Giving Data Standard. What is the Complete Guide to Publishing and what does it include? The 360Giving team recently launched a Complete Guide to Publishing to help funders through the process of sharing grants data using the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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Th visualisations in this blog are out of date.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 […]

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 […]

Our Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. Programme facilitator, Dirk Slater, share insights from the final workshop of the programme, sharing what a data strategy is and how to develop one using our Data Strategy Canvas template. You can read about how […]

The Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In this blog, programme facilitator Dirk Slater shares insights on how to encourage leaders to work with data, and techniques for communication from the workshop on February 24, 2021.  The ultimate goal of the Data […]

The Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In this blog, programme facilitator Dirk Slater shares insights from the group discussion on February 10, 2021 about grantmakers privilege and how to overcome confirmation bias. “Many of the processes in which we collect data […]

GrantNav is one of 360Giving’s flagship products – our search-engine for grants data.  It is a free-to-use platform that brings together open, comparable grants data that is published by UK funders in the 360Giving Data Standard.  If you are a regular GrantNav user then your browser may not show the updated site straight away, and […]

The Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In this blog, programme facilitator Dirk Slater shares insights about responsible data use from the workshop on January 27, 2021.    Responsible data What is meant by responsible data? Data is power and with power […]

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 […]

With the closure of Fundraising Central, NCVO’s online grants database, how can you identify potential funders for your work using open data? Here we set out some of the best free resources for fundraisers to search for funders

The Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In this blog, programme facilitator Dirk Slater shares tips on building a ‘data culture’ to enable better use of data in funding organisations. The ‘Data Champions’ are a group of people from different UK funding […]

In our Data Champions programme, we bring funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In this blog, we share insights from the group about public datasets, including which are the most useful and how to get the most from them.  There are many datasets out there that […]

Our Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. Having recently launched our third programme, facilitator Dirk Slater takes the opportunity to pause and reflect. In this blog, he highlights some of the common data challenges, and offers tips shared by the Data Champions […]