# Open data on charities' online giving stats from Justcharity.org

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/10/14/open-data-charities039-online-giving-stats-justcharityorg/
- Published: 2010-10-14T10:27:21+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Open data, aggregated information, and mashups. I’ve been looking for this kind 
of activity in the charity sector for some time, and am delighted to report some
very interesting developments from the likes of Joel Richards (@easyjo), Chris Taggart(@
countculture), and David Pidsley (@davidpidsley).

Joel Richard’s justcharity.org is a tool that shows charities’ online income, including
historical data, generated via Justgiving and Virgin Money Giving, together with
information pulled in from Chris Taggart and Pushrod’s opencharities.org, which 
itself pulls in data from the Charity Commission website.

It is all presented in a handy dashboard showing totals raised, number of fundraising
pages created, number of active pages, the page average incomes (compared with the
site’s average incomes per page), plus a link to the charity’s latest accounts in
PDF. Much of it is presented in easy to digest graphical format.

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There is a list of all fundraising pages for that charity too on the two giving 
sites.

The site, which is still in beta, was designed to help people see at a glance which
charities needed support, and to provide them with the information to help them 
choose which ones to support.

Justcharity.org point out that “Due to the nature of the data aggregating from various
sources the data will not be 100% accurate or realtime, although we do refresh active
event pages data to keep the data as current as possible”.

Perhaps not surprisingly, I suspect that the drive for this kind of data did not
come from charities or fundraisers themselves. So be it. We’ve got some able people
focusing on intelligent re-use of data about giving and fundraising and the sector
is the better for it.

http://justcharity.org