# UK Grantmaking platform providing free access to data on grants now live

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2024/06/25/uk-grantmaking-platform-providing-free-access-to-data-on-grants-now-live/
- Published: 2024-06-25T10:42:09+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

UK Grantmaking, a collaborative project to develop a new platform bringing together
data on grantmaking in the UK [announced late last year](https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/12/11/new-hub-for-uk-grantmaking-data-insights-to-launch-in-2024/%5d),
is now live.

[UKGrantmaking.org](http://www.ukgrantmaking.org/) collates and analyses information
available on grants made in 2022-23, providing a free, interactive platform that
showcases the data and insights on over £20bn of grants from across all grantmaking
sectors to the voluntary, community and social sectors. It has been designed with
interactive visualisations and tables that can be explored further, with the grantmaking
data searchable, sortable and downloadable. The data is openly available for people
to use for their own purposes.

The data from regulators, funder accounts and data is published using the 360Giving
Data Standard and the project is a collaboration between [360Giving](https://www.threesixtygiving.org/),
the [Association of Charitable Foundations](https://acf.org.uk/), the [Association of Charitable Organisations](https://www.aco.uk.net/),
[UK Community Foundations](https://www.ukcommunityfoundations.org/) and [London Funders](https://londonfunders.org.uk/),
supported by [Pears Foundation](https://pearsfoundation.org.uk/) and [CCLA](https://www.ccla.co.uk/).

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The research and analysis will be repeated annually with the intention that UK Grantmaking
will grow and evolve with each annual edition. [In a blog](https://www.threesixtygiving.org/2024/06/24/explore-ukgrantmaking/)
on the launch, 360Giving says that: _“This will enable 360Giving and partners to
develop an approach to longer-term analysis which will consider trends and provide
a source of base data that could then be used to “deep dive” into specific areas.”_

It also says that: _“Sharing data in this way will make it easier for everyone to
understand, to collaborate, and to support grantmaking to become more informed, 
effective and strategic.”_

360Giving has shared some of the findings from the platform’s data, revealing that
foundation giving reached over £6.4bn in 2022-23 but that there was a 2% decrease
in grant spending in real terms from the largest 100 funders providing grants to
individuals. The largest 300 foundation grantmakers increased grant spending by 
14%, a real terms increase of 3% when adjusted for inflation.

UK Grantmaking can be [explored here](https://www.ukgrantmaking.org/).