Where the data comes from
- United States — IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML. Grants are the itemised recipient schedules, as the filer wrote them.
- Canada — CRA T3010 registered-charity information returns, including the itemised gifts schedule.
- England & Wales — Charity Commission register.
- Organisation identity — IRS Business Master File.
What a grant row means
One funder said, on its own return, that it paid one recipient one amount in one year. That is the whole claim. The recipient may describe the same money differently, book it in a different year, or not record it at all.
What we refuse to do
- We do not say a grant caused an outcome. We will show you what happened afterwards, dated to the filing it came from.
- We do not rank causes. Which problems matter is not a question a tax filing can answer.
- We do not name people on these pages.
- Where a match is not confident enough to stand behind, the row is left out and said to be left out, rather than guessed.
Three currencies, never added
The corpus holds US dollars, Canadian dollars and pounds. No page here shows a combined total, because adding them gives a number with no unit. Every money figure states its currency, and a funder that filed in more than one gets a refusal instead of a sum.
Money is bucketed by the register that issued the funder's identifier, not by a currency column on the row. That column reads USD on every row in the database, including 63,943 sterling ones — it is wrong, it is known to be wrong, and nothing reads it.
A defect we found and fixed, stated anyway
Sterling grants imported from a data lake were multiplied by a single hardcoded rate and stamped as dollars. For months the Wellcome Trust showed roughly $24.7bn against about £19.4bn actually filed. On 27 August 2026 those 63,943 rows were restated into the pounds they were filed in, with the old stamped figure kept beside them so the correction is checkable rather than merely claimed. It is on this page because a corrected number and a number that was always right look identical, and you have no way to tell them apart unless we say which this was.