Sources
Automatic translation.
The sources we use, what we take from them and how often we update them.
| Source | What we take from it | Update | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| IATI (registry and d-portal) | List of NGOs that publish data, projects, expenditure and funds by year, country and sector | weekly | IATI open data |
| Charities Regulator (Ireland), register and annual returns | Registry details, countries of operation, annual accounts with income by source (government, other public bodies, foundations, donations, legacies), staff. Scope: over €1 million in income and international activities or operations in at least three foreign countries | monthly | CC BY 4.0 |
| Canada Revenue Agency, List of charities (form T3010) | Registry details, annual accounts, funds from Canadian governments, staff, countries and spending abroad. Scope: over CAD 2 million in income and at least a quarter of spending abroad (excluding universities, hospitals and religious bodies) | annual | Open Government Licence – Canada |
| Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC), register and Annual Information Statement | Registry details, countries of operation, annual accounts with income from governments, staff, grants paid abroad. Scope: over AUD 2 million in income and at least a quarter of spending in grants abroad (excluding religious bodies), plus NGOs working directly overseas | annual | CC BY |
| Charities Services (New Zealand), register and annual returns | Registry details, areas and countries of operation, annual accounts with government grants, staff and volunteers. Scope: over NZD 1 million in income and main sector "international activities", or at least half of spending abroad in at least three countries | monthly | CC BY 4.0 |
| Charity Commission for England and Wales | Registry details, annual accounts, staff, countries of activity, description of activities | weekly | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
| Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR), register and returns for the last 5 years | Registry details, annual accounts, staff, share of spending on core activities. Scope: Scottish charities operating only abroad with over £500,000 in income, plus well-known Scottish NGOs (Mercy Corps Europe, SCIAF, Mary's Meals…). Contains information from the Scottish Charity Register supplied by the OSCR (© Crown Copyright) | monthly | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
| Svensk Insamlingskontroll (Sweden), organisations with 90-account | Organisation number, total income over the last three years and share of spending on purposes. Sweden has no public register of charities: we use the data that the fundraising control body publishes for holders of a 90-account. Scope: organisations active in Africa, Asia, South America or worldwide with over SEK 5 million in income, plus well-known Swedish NGOs, minus those not doing cooperation (national associations, religious bodies, Bible distribution) | monthly | factual data only, with a link to the organisation's page |
| IP Geolocation by DB-IP (IP to Country Lite) | Only the country of the IP address, for visit statistics; the address is not stored | monthly | CC BY 4.0 |
| European Union Transparency Register | Total budget and public funds declared by registered organisations, since 2015 (one version per year). Used for organisations already in the atlas that have no accounts from an official register, and for a few organisations added by hand for the thematic pages: these are figures declared by the organisations themselves, and we indicate this in their profile | monthly | free reuse with citation of the source (Decision 2011/833/EU) |
| European Union Financial Transparency System | Amounts committed each year by the European Commission (humanitarian aid, development cooperation, neighbourhood, foreign policy and other programmes) to organisations in the atlas, since 2014; matched by name and country | annual | free reuse with citation of the source (Decision 2011/833/EU) |
| OCHA Financial Tracking Service (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) | Humanitarian funding received by organisations, by year and by donor (governments, UN agencies, pooled funds, foundations), since 2016; matched by name and country | monthly | CC BY-IGO |
| Donor IATI data (data from government cooperation agencies, accessed via d-portal) | Payments to organisations from 20 agencies in 17 donor countries (including USAID, FCDO, BMZ, Sida, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, AICS), by year and donor, since 2015; matched by identifier or by name (excluding ambiguous names). Finland, Switzerland and New Zealand do not disclose recipients | monthly | open licences of the individual donors (mostly CC BY or OGL) |
| Quality marks and codes of conduct: ZEWO, Svensk Insamlingskontroll, DZI, ACFID, Istituto Italiano della Donazione, Don en Confiance, Fundación Lealtad, HQAI (Core Humanitarian Standard), Innsamlingskontrollen | Public lists of certified or member organisations, to indicate in profiles which marks an organisation holds, with a link to the page of the issuing body; matched by website or by name and country | monthly | only the fact and the link, without reproducing content |
| IOM, Missing Migrants Project (International Organization for Migration) | Deaths and disappearances along sea migration routes, event by event since 2014, summed by us by route and year for the "Sea rescue" page. Minimum estimate | monthly | CC BY 4.0 ("IOM's Missing Migrants Project") |
| Sources for the "USAID and NGO cuts" page: OECD, preliminary 2025 data, Congressional Research Service, Executive Order 14169, press | Timeline of the cuts and the fall in official development assistance; figures per organisation come from donor payments on IATI, already in this table. | on review | facts only, cited with links |
| Sources for the "Demining" page: Landmine Monitor (ICBL-CMC), UN News | Victims, the landmine treaty and the 2025 funding freeze; public aid for the sector comes from the OECD Creditor Reporting System, already in this table. | on review | facts only, cited with links |
| Sources for the "Humanitarian crises" pages: United Nations (OCHA) plans and appeals, European Commission | Context of each crisis; needs, funds, recipients and donors come from the OCHA Financial Tracking Service, already in this table. | on review | facts only, cited with links |
| Sources for the "Sea rescue" page: European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), German government answers to the Bundestag, organisations' websites and reports, press, Wikipedia | Ships, aircraft and years of activity of sea-rescue organisations, verified one by one; the source for each is indicated on the page | on review | facts only, cited with links |
| OECD, Creditor Reporting System (CRS) | Official development assistance channelled through NGOs and civil society, from donor country to recipient country, by year and sector: the basis of the "Flows" page. Data for a year arrive towards the end of the following year | monthly | free reuse with citation of the source (CC BY 4.0) |
| IRS, Exempt Organizations Business Master File | List of US non-profit organisations and their classification | monthly | public domain |
| ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer | Data from Form 990 tax filings | monthly | public API |
| AICS, List of civil society organisations | Registered Italian organisations, registration and deregistration dates | weekly | public act |
| Ministry of Labour, RUNTS | Registration in the National Single Register of the Third Sector and its section | weekly | public data |
| Open Cooperazione | Accounts, staff and funding sources self-declared by Italian NGOs | periodic | CC BY 3.0 IT |
| Wikidata | Year of foundation, names and short definitions in various languages | monthly | CC0 |
| European Central Bank | Reference exchange rates | monthly | free reuse with citation |
| Annual reports of organisations | Consolidated accounts of NGO families; accounts of organisations added by hand for the thematic pages and without a register among our sources (for example Sea-Eye), with a link to the document in the profile | on publication | cited document by document |
| Natural Earth | Country borders for maps | — | public domain |
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