Benchmarking
We support individual grantmakers and groups of funders to understand how their grantmaking compares with peers and fits in the wider landscape.
Cost: Tailored to your needs and budget
For: Funder groups and networks, Grantmakers
The benefits of benchmarking
Our benchmarking service provides funders with comparative insights into their grantmaking, using data from sources like UKGrantmaking to understand their collective impact and individual performance relative to peers and the wider grantmaking landscape. We cover trends, grant characteristics, recipient profiles, and funder collaborations. This supports funders to understand their position in the wider funding landscape, to reflect on their strategy and contribution, and to identify areas for development.
In practice example
Benchmarking for a funding network
A network of about 50 funders commissioned 360Giving to provide a benchmarking report on their members, based on the UKGrantmaking data. This included:
- A table of network members with the amount awarded in 2022-23, endowment value etc (where information is available from regulators or published statutory accounts).
- Commentary on trends compared to the previous year, with the number that increased and decreased in their giving and by how much.
- Commentary on how these trends compared to the overall profile of grantmakers in UKGrantmaking.
- For the 360Giving Publishers, the features of the data – grant amounts, grant duration, and also information on the recipients, where available from charity regulators, including the type of organisation, size, location, and communities served.
- A ‘who funds with who’ chord diagram with the number of recipients that different funders have in common with each other.
This supported the group to understand their collective impact but also see individual differences and changes to support discussions about trends and developments.
Get in touch
If you’d like support with this sort of thing, please do get in touch with us using the form below. We tailor our services for each client, and would work with you to design an approach that meets your needs and budget. We offer a range of consultancy services which we can provide in any combination, so you can confidently understand and use grants data.