Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 16
    • No volunteer policy: -2
    • Good trustee age range: +3
    • Dynamic board: +3
    • Grant maker support: +16
    Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

    360 GIVING 

    360Giving supports grantmakers to publish their grants data in an open, standardised way and helps people to access, understand and use the data to improve charitable giving.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
    • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
    • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

    Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

    • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
    • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
    Established: 8 years

    www.threesixtygiving.org

    info@threesixtygiving.org

    020 8145 8043

    Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseX

    Financial Data ?

    Income & Spending ?
    Sources of Income ?
    Y/E Income
    £k
    Spending
    £k
    Surplus/
    Deficit
    Fundraising
    Cost £k
    Total
    Funds £k
    Unrestricted
    Funds £k
    Mths
    Rsrvs
    Staff Volun-
    teers
    31/03/23£654£588£66£0£243£243566
    31/03/22£519£606£-88£0£177£150356
    31/03/21£588£508£80£0£265£2185.156
    31/03/20£500£477£23£0£185£158446
    31/03/19£516£461£55£0£162£1624.230
    31/03/18£448£486£-38£0£0£0n/a00
    31/03/17£429£333£96£0£0£0n/a00

    Financial Ratios
    Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
    Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
    Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 13%
    Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
    Liabilities/Assets: 4%
    Liabilities/Income: 2%
    Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
    Reserves/Spending: 5 months
    Net Current Assets/Spending: 5 months
    Quick Ratio: 22.4
    Asset Split ?
    Listed activities
    • Other Charitable Purposes
    How it operates
    • Other charitable activities
    • Provides advocacy/advice/information
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
    Who it helps
    • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
    • The General Public/Mankind
    Who works here?
    • 6 employees
    • 6 volunteers

    Who's supporting them? ?

    Donations from Grant Makers ?

    We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

    Major supporters in last 5 years
    Indigo Trust£1,350,000
    Esmee Fairbairn£994,500
    National Lottery Community Fund£984,885
    City Bridge Trust£170,000
    Tudor Trust£92,000
    Pears Foundation£75,000
    Lloyds Bank Foundation£60,000
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation£20,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    City Bridge Trust - Grant to 360 Giving
    £170,000 30/05/2023
    £170,000 over four years (£50,000; £45,000; £40,000; £35,000) as a contribution to core costs.
    Indigo Trust - Core Funding for FY 2024/25
    £150,000 01/05/2023
    Core Funding for FY 2024/25
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to 360 Giving
    £49,500 13/02/2023
    Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
    National Lottery Community Fund - Strategy 2022-25: Unleashing the Impact of Grants Data
    £495,000 01/09/2022
    This funding will support 360 Giving to build on the success and ambition for data informed decision-making to be a central element of grant-making. 360 Giving are a registered charity and Private ....more
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to 360 Giving
    £495,000 26/04/2022
    36
    Towards core costs to support the implementation of a new strategy to raise the bar in grants data sharing, testing new approaches and inspiring and supporting the use of data
    Tudor Trust - Grant to 360 Giving
    £90,000 21/02/2022
    36
    over three years as continuation funding on an unrestricted basis for a charity working to make grant making in the UK more informed and strategic
    Indigo Trust - Two year core funding to support 360Giving's work in publishing grants data
    £300,000 07/02/2022
    24
    Two year core funding to support 360Giving's work in publishing grants data
    Indigo Trust - Two year core funding to support 360Giving's work in publishing grants data
    £300,000 07/02/2022
    Two year core funding to support 360Giving's work in publishing grants data
    Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding
    £20,000 09/06/2021
    360Giving publishes data from the grant-making sector in a searchable format. Their vision is for UK grant-making to become more evidence-based, impactful and strategic. They support UK grant-makers ....more
    Pears Foundation - Grant to 360Giving
    £50,000 16/03/2021
    Core Funding
    Tudor Trust - Grant to 360 Giving
    £2,000 16/02/2021
    as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
    Indigo Trust - Supporting UK organisations to publish their grants data
    £300,000 20/07/2020
    Core unrestricted funding for its work in supporting UK organisations to publish their grants data
    Indigo Trust - Supporting UK organisations to publish their grants data
    £300,000 20/07/2020
    Core unrestricted funding for its work in supporting UK organisations to publish their grants data
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to 360Giving
    £450,000 09/04/2020
    36
    Towards core, unrestricted costs to support the implementation of a new strategy to raise the bar in grants data sharing, testing new approaches and inspiring and supporting the use of data.
    Pears Foundation - Grant to 360Giving
    £25,000 26/11/2019
    15
    Core Funding
    Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to 360Giving
    £60,000 20/09/2019
    24
    Support the core costs of 360Giving through two years of their 2019-2021 strategy. As over 100 grantmakers are publishing to the standard, the grant will support their strategy to embed both the ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Opening up UK grants data as part of making grantmaking more effective
    £489,885 20/05/2019
    35
    Opening up UK grants data as part of making grantmaking more effective
    Tudor Trust - Grant to 360 Giving
    £90,000 31/01/2019
    36
    over three years as unrestricted funding for a charity working to make UK grant making more informed, effective and strategic
    Pears Foundation - Grant to 360Giving
    £20,000 06/12/2018
    12
    Core funding
    Indigo Trust - Supporting UK organisations to publish their grants data
    £150,000 22/05/2018
    Core costs for FY18-19.
    Indigo Trust - Supporting UK organisations to publish their grants data
    £150,000 22/05/2018
    Core costs for FY18-19.
    Indigo Trust - Supporting UK organisations to publish their grants data
    £30,000 08/03/2018
    Core funding.
    Indigo Trust - Supporting UK organisations to publish their grants data
    £30,000 08/03/2018
    Core funding.
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to 360Giving
    £360,000 25/04/2017
    36
    Towards unrestricted core costs of an organisation aiming to encourage more funders and statutory bodies to publish their grant data in an open format, and to help charities use that data.
    Indigo Trust - Improving access to UK philanthropic data
    £50,000 25/01/2017
    To help cover the core costs of 360Giving, the organisation supporting UK donors and philanthropists to publish their grants data in an open, standardised way to support decision-making and learning ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - 360Giving: supporting the publication and use of open grants data
    £745,000 23/06/2016
    36
    This project aims to improve decision making and transparency in the voluntary and community sector by publishing grant-making data from funders, foundations and trusts as standardised open data. ....more
    Indigo Trust - Improving access to UK philanthropic/grantmakers data
    £30,000 11/03/2016
    Towards core costs to help make philanthropic spending more transparent and effective..
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to 360Giving
    £58,600 07/03/2016
    12
    Towards the development of GrantNav2 - a tool to search and visualise grant data from UK funders
    Nesta - AC00511
    £40,000 02/12/2015
    7
    Open Philanthropy / 360Giving programme grant to 360Giving Grant Ref AC00511
    National Lottery Community Fund - 360 Giving
    £50,000 09/11/2015
    18
    This funding will support the development of 360Giving, including business planning, strategy, website development and technical support. This group helps grant-makers better capture and manage their ....more
    Indigo Trust - Helping UK grantmakers to publish their grants data openly
    £5,000 03/08/2015
    To contribute towards the core costs of establishing 360 Giving as a UK registered charity.
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (6)
    Current Trustees appointed

    Age Range of Trustees: 28-60
    • JOANNA STROYAN KERR Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Senior Leader In A Not-For-Profit Organisation
    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/12/2015, number: 1164883
    • Registered at Companies House on 02/07/2015, number: 09668396
    Gift Aid
    • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
    • Complaints handling
    • Complaints policy and procedures
    • Conflicting interests
    • Financial reserves policy and procedures
    • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
    • Internal risk management policy and procedures
    • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding policy and procedures
    • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
    • Social media policy and procedures
    • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
    • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
    Filing Record
    7 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    c/o Sayer Vincent
    110 Golden Lane
    London
    EC1Y 0TG

    Objectives

    THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY ENCOURAGING, SUPPORTING AND ASSISTING GRANT MAKERS, GRANT RECIPIENTS AND FUNDERS TO ADOPT AN OPEN ON LINE COMMON STANDARD FOR THE REPORTING OF GRANT INFORMATION THEREBY ASSISTING DONORS AND FUNDERS TO MORE EFFECTIVELY MAKE CHARITABLE DONATIONS AND TO MORE EFFECTIVELY TARGET THEIR GRANT-MAKING BY IDENTIFYING GAPS IN PROVISION. IN THIS CLAUSE: THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR MEANS CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS. CHARITIES ARE ORGANISATIONS WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES. CHARITABLE SHALL HAVE THE MEANING ASSIGNED TO IT BY THE LAW FOR THE TIME BEING IN FORCE IN ENGLAND AND WALES?VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ARE INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES OF ADDING VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION.VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
    CharityBase
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