Before you start
What data is available
There are three levels of data available:
- Required data fields that are published by all funders for all grants.
- Optional data fields, published by some funders and not available for all grants.
- Enhanced data fields that 360Giving provides from other sources based on location and official organisation identifiers in the data published by funders.
Required data fields
There are ten required fields of information that cover the basics – who, what, when, and how much for each grant. These are always published when using the 360Giving Data Standard.
These are:
- A title for the grant
- A unique identifier to tell one grant apart from another
- The name and organisation identifier for the funding organisation
- The name and organisation identifier for the funding organisation
- The name and identifier for the recipient organisation or individual
- The name and identifier for the recipient organisation or individual
- A description of the purpose of the grant
- The currency and value of the grant
- The currency and value of the grant
- The award date of the grant
The image shows an example of how these are displayed in GrantNav, the search engine for 360Giving data.
Optional data fields
In addition to these 10 required fields, funders can choose to share a wide range of other information:
- About the location of the grant recipient and where the funded work is being delivered.
- About the grant programme.
- About the duration of the grant, to show if it’s a single-year or multi-year grant.
- Other information about funders or recipients, such as website addresses and organisation descriptions.
- Additional information about the grant or grant programme based on the internal categories and needs of the funder.
It is important to understand that these fields are optional, so not all funders publish them. This can particularly skew the picture when looking at location or duration.
Additional data fields
Where published data includes official geodata (location data) and/or official Organisation Identifiers (Org IDs), such as charity or company numbers, 360Giving automatically enhances it by adding information from other public sources.
We use a range of sources to look up additional data, including Geo Lookups, FindThatCharity, and Find That Postcode.
The enhancements include:
- Additional location details based on the postcode; regions, counties etc.
- Funder and recipient information – official name, size of organisation, latest income, registration dates.
A full list of the data sources and attributions is available on GrantNav.
Organisations
An organisation can appear in GrantNav as a Funder, a Publisher, a Recipient or any combination of those roles.
- An organisation is a Funder when their details appear in 360Giving data in the Funding Org:Name and Funding Org:Identifier fields.
- An organisation is a Recipient when their details appear in 360Giving data in the Recipient Org:Name and Recipient Org:Identifier fields.
- An organisation is a Publisher when their name appears on the 360Giving Data Quality Dashboard, and they can be identified by their publisher name and unique 360Giving Publisher prefix which starts 360G.
In most cases, the Publisher of 360Giving data is also the Funder that appears in the data. However, it is possible for a Publisher to publish grants data on behalf of a different Funder alongside its own grants. It is also possible for a Publisher to not be a Funder and solely publish grants data on behalf of others. A Funder/Publisher might also appear as a Recipient.
Read more about Org IDs in this guide.
Locations
The 360Giving Data Standard allows funders to include both Recipient Location (the place where the Recipient Organisation is based) and Grant Location data (the place where the funded activity is taking place).
GrantNav will default to the “Best Available” location, which uses the Grant Location where available, and uses the Recipient Location if the Grant Location is unavailable.
Find out more about Location data in this guide.