Why publish?
Publishing grants data using the 360Giving Data Standard brings lots of benefits, both for grantmakers and communities. By publishing, you can:
- Understand yourself better – The publishing process encourages you to consider what information you collect, how you present it and what is missing. Once published, you can explore your grants data in new ways using our tools GrantNav and GrantVis.
- Save time and money for the sector – When financial flows are opaque, it’s harder for funders and charities alike to identify potential partners or collaborators. With over 100,000 people each year using GrantNav to explore the fuller picture of funding across the UK, publishing your grants data using the 360Giving Data Standard helps to make us all more informed, effective and strategic.
- Support better outcomes for recipients – By saving resources and enabling better, more targeted funding decisions, 360Giving data helps all funders focus on what’s most important: meeting the needs of the people, organisations and causes that they support.
- See collective impact – When all funders in a particular group (like a network or place) publish their data, we can analyse the contribution they are making. For example, our Grants to Individuals dashboard visualises the purpose and reason for grants awarded to individuals and families, alongside their distribution compared to the Indices of Multiple Deprivation.
- Enable new and innovative research – Your data will contribute to research that supports the funding sector, facilitating more informed, evidence-based and strategic grantmaking in the long term. Our analysis and reports include UKGrantmaking, the definitive annual publication on grant funding in the UK, and deep dives into specific fields such as Specialist Legal Advice Providers and Infrastructure Funding for the Voluntary Sector.
- Showcase your grants data – As a publisher, you can use our widgets for free to promote grants data on your website in an easy-to-read view. This can help clarify who and what you fund.