Our impact

We have supported hundreds of funders to publish their data using the 360Giving Data Standard. The grantmakers who have shared their data range from central government departments, lottery distributors, and major charitable foundations; to local giving schemes, community foundations, charities, and small trustee-run family trusts. Our success so far means a critical mass of information is now available, which is transforming how funders, charities, researchers, and policymakers understand grantmaking in the UK. 

To further drive this transformation we have built tools that make grants data easy to access and use, and support people to develop the skills they need to do so. Our work is creating real and meaningful change with over 100,000 people exploring the data and hundreds of people attending our workshops each year, supporting the sector to be more informed, effective, and strategic.

Culture and practice around grants data has come a long way since we were founded in 2015, and we celebrate that publishing data openly is becoming expected practice for grantmakers in the UK. But while there is now more grants data available than ever before, there is also further to go: on the number of funders publishing their grants data, the scope and quality of the information they are sharing, and towards funders using this data both in their day-to-day work and strategically. Our small team is focused on addressing these challenges with purpose, openness, and curiosity, to unleash the impact of grants data. 

Annual reports

You can read more about our impact, challenges, and learning in our annual reports.

2023-2024

This year 360Giving further stepped up our activities and achievements, building on strong foundations to achieve our ambitious strategy, ‘Unleashing the Impact of Grants Data’.

We consolidated the changes implemented in 2022-23 when we transitioned to the new strategy, and built on these changes to realise its impact.

By showing what is possible with the data now available we increased our impact across the sector, and built partnerships which will amplify this impact even further.

At the end of the year, there were 275 funders sharing data on over one million grants worth £265 billion, with over 75,000 people accessing the data in the 360Giving tools alone.

We’ve seen an exponential increase in people accessing and using the data over the last year, with data and insights supporting more informed grantmaking and greater collaboration between funders.

We achieved a huge amount this year, and the progress we made will underpin the success of our strategy in the years ahead.

Previous annual reports:

• 2022-23 – With the launch of our 2022-27 strategy 360Giving had a transformative year, changing our ways of working as we launched new analysis reports, workshops and training events, and enhancements to the Data Standard.
• 2021-22 – We achieved many of our long-term goals, reaching a critical mass of funders sharing their data and embedding both publishing and using grants data deeper through our partnerships, support, and peer networks.
• 2020-21 – As funders across sectors responded to the pandemic we focused on supporting them, and met a surge of interest in how our work could help them to do so.
• 2019-20 – We made progress on many of our strategic goals, increasing funders  sharing their data and building networks and partnerships to share learning about how to use that data effectively.