# Who Funds You? looks to expand coverage to campaign groups

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/03/31/funds-looks-expand-coverage-campaign-groups/
- Published: 2017-03-31T07:57:09+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Who Funds You?, which rates think tanks and public policy-focused campaigns for
funding transparency, is considering expanding its coverage to include campaign 
groups.**

 

[Who Funds You?,](http://whofundsyou.org) asks organisations to name funders who
gave more than £5,000 in the last year, and how much they gave, and has also recently
[updated its ratings](http://whofundsyou.org/compare) and relaunched its website.

## Advertisement

 

The site was set up by participants of the [Political Innovation](http://www.politicalinnovation.org)
project, and is managed on a voluntary basis by a steering group comprising: Clifford
Singer, Who Funds You? director and creative director at [Social Spark](https://socialspark.co.uk);
Karin Christiansen, board chair at Open Knowledge and former managing director of
Publish What You Fund; Paul Evans, founder of Political Innovation; and Dr Andy 
Williamson, director of Democratise and former director of digital democracy at 
the Hansard Society.

 

Clifford Singer, director of Who Funds You?, said:

 

> “When we launched five years ago there was little concern among think tanks around
> issues of funding transparency but it’s become much more pressing over the last
> year, with debates around Trump, ‘fake news’ and ‘dark money’ in politics. So 
> this year we’re stepping up activity and plan to double the number of organisations
> we rate from 25 to 50.
> “Although we’re mainly interested in think tanks, we are seeing an increasing 
> number of ‘hybrid’ organisations that have elements of both campaign groups and
> think tanks. We already cover some of these but expect to include more in the 
> future. It’s more about what they do than how they label themselves. If, for example,
> they are giving evidence to Parliamentary committees and inquiries, we think they
> have a duty to declare their funding.”

 

Who Funds You? is looking for feedback on its plans to expand coverage to cover 
campaign groups, and comments can be sent to [in**@*********ou.org](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/03/31/funds-looks-expand-coverage-campaign-groups/in**@*********ou.org).

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