People’s Postcode Lottery becomes the 300th 360Giving Data Standard publisher
Another significant milestone is reached with over 300 grantmakers now openly publishing their data.
This week marks an exciting milestone for 360Giving: 20 Postcode Trusts have joined our ranks, taking us to over 300 grantmakers publishing their data using the 360Giving Data Standard. By sharing their grants data openly, the 20 People’s Postcode Trusts join a growing movement toward greater transparency, collaboration, and effectiveness in the funding sector.
This milestone marks a new chapter in the growth of 360Giving and highlights the increasing value of open data in shaping the UK’s charitable landscape, as we work to ensure that anyone can see who funds who, what and where.
You can explore a summary of the data and see its growth on 360Insights:
About People’s Postcode Lottery and Postcode Trusts
People’s Postcode Lottery manages charity lotteries for 20 Postcode Trusts. Each Trust is funded entirely by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.
People’s Postcode Lottery has made a tremendous impact on communities and causes across the UK and beyond. Since 2009, players of the People’s Postcode Lottery have raised over £1.4 billion for thousands of charities and good causes.
People’s Postcode Lottery is helping to create a clearer picture of the charitable funding landscape, empowering other funders, researchers, policymakers, and charitable organisations to make informed decisions and strengthen collaboration by publishing their recent grants data from the 20 Postcode Trusts.
The Postcode Trusts have grown significantly in recent years, distributing over £200m in 2023 between the 20 different trusts.
The Trusts support a wide range of charities and good causes working across a number of areas, including care, culture, environment, human rights, education, arts, equality, health, sport and animal welfare among others.
Information about this grantmaking is now available alongside the grants of over 300 other funders in our tools, adding valuable insights into both the breadth and depth of charitable funding across sectors.
You can access the data shared by the Postcode Trusts on our search engine for grants, GrantNav and summarised and visualised in our GrantVis tool.
Why publishing open grants data matters
Our aim is for more money to go to where it is needed most, to support communities and causes through a more informed understanding of the grantmaking picture. When each grantmaker publishes open data about its grantmaking, for the first time like Postcode Trusts, or by making regular updates like the many active members of the 360Giving community, it enriches the 360Giving data ecosystem, increasing the benefit to all.
The 360Giving Data Standard enables different grantmakers to publish their funding data in a consistent and accessible format in a way that contributes to collective insights of the sector. Taking an open data approach makes it easier for the data to be accessed, shared, and analysed by anyone, and used in varied ways to improve the effectiveness of charitable funding
When data is brought together in this way we can see patterns, track changes over time, identify gaps in funding and identify opportunities for collaboration. It helps grantmakers better understand where their funds can make the most significant difference, while fundraisers and charities can more easily identify potential funding sources and potential partners.
Celebrating how far we’ve come together
With over 300 funders now on board, the impact of the data increases in momentum. This year we also saw the millionth grant published, with data about grants to over 400,000 organisations and over 100,000 grants to individuals available to explore in GrantNav. Over 100,000 people have accessed and used the data in our tools in the last year. This year we were also proud to launch UKGrantmaking in June, a new interactive platform for data and insights on over £20 billion worth of grants, a project made possible by sector collaboration and the grant data shared by funders.
Our strategy set out our aim to shift the norm from funders sharing data to using it, and create a permanent transformation in data culture and practice, so this significant growth in data use alongside data sharing, shows that this initiative is about more than meeting transparency goals – it’s about maximising impact. We’re grateful to all the many funders, both the old hands and those new to publishing their grants, and supporters of our work, who have stepped up and taken a proactive role in shaping the future of the funding sector by going on this journey with us.
Join us
Our journey doesn’t stop here. With each new publisher, we build a stronger foundation for a future where data can support better decisions, foster collaboration, and reveal areas where resources are most needed. We look forward to welcoming more organisations to the open grants movement, and to seeing how the data already shared will continue to support funders, charities, and researchers alike.
We thank the Postcode Trusts and all 300+ grantmakers who have embraced open data. Together, we are creating a more open, informed, effective, and strategic funding landscape. Here’s to the next 300 publishers, and to a future where everyone benefits from better grantmaking data!
If you are a grantmaker and not yet publishing your data, you can find out more about sharing your grants data by taking a look at our range of free publishing support options.
If you want to learn more about using the data, find out how to get the most out of GrantNav at our free workshop or check out our grantmaking insights.