Tag: Factary Phi

We’re bigger than NASA*

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Factary Phi – our online, searchable database of philanthropists in the UK – has now reached 287,472 records and a total of £17 billion in recorded donations.

(*For comparison, £17 billion is more than the total budget for NASA for 2012, US$18 billion [source: www.whitehouse.gov])

Every single record is searchable, and subscribers can see who has given, to whom, and find the original public-domain source we used to find the record.

We’ve just uploaded over 23,000 new records to Factary Phi with a total value of £482m, equivalent to over half the total value of the Factary Phi database when it was launched in 2009. At the top end of philanthropy, we are currently reporting on 829 donations of £1m or more. That’s a lot of giving to UK organisations by people, trusts and foundations, and companies.

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Here’s what users say:

Factary Phi is a unique tool, which has been a great starting point for much of my research & certainly saved me a great deal of time. As a new product to the market, it can only become stronger as more and more data is added.
— Arts organisation

 

Factary Phi is a great resource which helps our team get the fullest view of philanthropists’ giving, and helps us in prospecting.
— Social welfare organisation

 

Factary Phi makes my job easier and is a much quicker way of searching on a donor’s philanthropy.
— Arts organisation

 

Phi has been very useful and I now use it on a weekly basis.
— University

If you like a nice graph, here’s our growth in numbers of records:

Data growth Factary Phi

And here’s the growth in total value of donations recorded:

Value growth Factary Phi

Read more about Factary Phi here, or contact us to ask more or arrange a demo.

Taking education for granted

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Education organisations are winning more than 100 times as much funding from grant-making trusts than animal welfare organisations. Average grants to education are almost three times bigger than those to animal welfare.

Why are there these differences between sectors? How are other sectors faring?

To find out more we analysed the data in Factary Phi.

Factary Phi reports on £2.5 billion in donations by 6,400 grant-making trusts, and names the source, recipient and amount for up to 40% of ALL grants made in some non-profit sectors – so it gives a useful picture of what is going on in grant-making.

Arts and Culture organisations are doing well from grant-making trusts at the low mid-range – from £10,000-£49,999. Here the sector is reporting more grants than any other. At the top of the range, education and health sectors are reporting more grants than anyone else at the £100,000-£499,999 range.

Download Factary’s Taken for Granted report here.

For more information on Factary Phi contact us.

Or watch our 4-minute podcast Introduction to Factary Phi.

Thanks for £1

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When does your organisation say ‘thank-you’, publicly?

Factary has just analysed the data in Factary Phi, our online database of donors and supporters, to answer this question.

It turns out that there are wide variations between different nonprofit sectors. The education sector seems to be more ready to thank than the international development sector. For the donor, the ‘thank you effect’ varies widely.

To read the briefing paper, click here

For more on Factary Phi, watch our four-minute webcast here.

Or contact us for a live online demo.

The seriously philanthropic

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Our latest analysis of Factary Phi, our online database of donors and supporters of UK nonprofits, shows more than £12 billion (£12,895 million) in donations of £1m or more. In total we’ve identified 658 gifts at this level.

Education and international development are leading recipients of £1m+ gifts. We’ve identified more than £3.1 billion in gifts of £1m+ to education, and more than £2.4 billion to international development charities in the UK. Children’s causes (£1.4 billion) and health (£1.1 billion) are other main recipients of £1m+ gifts.

For more information, get in touch with us.

Art, together

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There are more than 39,000 arts supporters listed in Factary Phi, Factary’s online database of publicly-recorded support for UK nonprofits.

This month we’ve prepared some brief profiles of couples who support the arts, together. Download our report here, with our compliments.

If you would like to know more about Factary Phi or to see a free online demonstration just contact us at Factary (research@factary.com, 0117 916 6740)

Download the report here.

Charities analysed

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We’ve been continuing to extract useful information from our Factary Phi database. Here, in a brief 2 page report, is the latest data from a survey we carried out in Factary Phi on donations to charities

We have found some interesting patterns by comparing reported gifts from trusts with reported gifts from individuals. For example mental health charities are reporting substantially more gifts from trusts than from individual donors, while education and training organisations show the reverse picture.

We hope that this information helps organisations in the nonprofit sector to begin to establish benchmarks in their work with strategic donors (philanthropists, companies and trusts.)

Do contact us (research@factary.com, or 0117 916 6740) if you would like to know more, or to set up an online demonstration of Factary Phi.

Download the report here.

Universities in Factary Phi

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Factary Phi, our database of donors and supporters to UK nonprofits, is beginning to reveal an interesting picture of philanthropy in the UK. The database only covers donations that are recorded in the public domain, so it is emphatically not a sample of all philanthropy.

But working within that limitation, the Factary team has been analysing donations to Universities and education, and we’ve come up with some surprising, and some reassuring, results.

Reassuring, for example, is the fact that over 95% of publicly acknowledged donations come from individual people – that means a good wide base of philanthropic support for UK universities. Surprising was the fact that we have found trusts and foundations to be particularly keen to list their donation value on University websites.

We have also demonstrated, we think for the first time in the UK, that academics are an important group of donors to UK Universities – representing around 12% of donors and 17% by value of publicly recorded donations.

We have written a brief report on these statistics as an aid to development teams in universities and the education sector. You can download the report here.

There is more about Factary Phi at here. If you would like to talk to a human being about Factary Phi, call us in Bristol on 0117 916 6740, or email at research@factary.com.

Download the report.

Thanks from the Arts

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More than 36,500 supporters are acknowledged publicly by arts organisations in the UK, according to new research by Factary. And most of the donated income is from people (not from companies or trusts, as you might have expected.)

A summary research note is available for download here.

The research is based on data from Factary Phi, the database of donations and donors reported in the public domain. Factary Phi currently contains more than 160,000 records of donors and supporters to UK nonprofits who have been publicly thanked or reported.

Factary’s research shows that while only one in three publicly-acknowledged donors is an individual, almost three-quarters of publicly-acknowledged donated £s are from people as donors.

Our research seems to show that grant-making trusts and foundations are shy of public acknowledgement – with few arts organisations listing the donation value of their trust supporters. By contrast, companies seem more willing to allow their arts organisation partners to report donation values on arts websites.

To build Factary Phi, Factary researched donors by name from public domain sources, and Factary Phi shows the organisation they donated to with that organisation’s location and the web address of the source we used to find this data. Almost half of the records show either the amount of the donation or a gift band, and we are currently reporting on more than £13 billion in known donations to UK nonprofits, from 161,896 donors and supporters.

For further information contact David Hughes, Editor of Factary Phi.

Download the research summary.

We’ve just raised £3 billion!

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Factary announced today that it has identified £9.4 billion in donations to UK organisations. All of these donations are featured in Factary Phi, the database of publicly recorded gifts to UK nonprofits. This figure is up by more than £3 billion from last month’s total of £6.2 billion, thanks to new research into UK donors.

Factary Phi is a database of more than 150,000 publicly recorded gifts to UK nonprofits. Users can log in to the database, search for specific gifts, or gifts to causes, and extract detailed records showing the donor’s name and the URL or website where we found the gift. Factary Phi is a subscription service available to any UK nonprofit. Click here for more details, including screenshots.

Background

Factary is a research and consultancy service for nonprofits. We offer research and consultancy services in fundraising from ‘strategic donors’ – major donors, trusts and foundations, companies and government. Factary was founded in 1990 and is based in Bristol, where we have a research and consultancy team, as well as in Barcelona, Brussels and Boston where we have consultants.

Factary Phi is a database of donations to UK nonprofits. We research and compile the data from public domain sources and currently show 155,276 records with a total gift value of £9,488,310,271. These figures change regularly – we have a fortnightly update cycle for Factary Phi.

Factary Phi shows the name and registration number of the nonprofit (charity, university, arts organisation etc) that received the gift, along with the donor’s name and the URL, or website, where we found the gift. Around half of the gifts show either an actual amount donated, or a range within which the gift falls (e.g. £10,000-£25,000) The total amount donated for which we show an actual amount donated is £9.3 billion (£9,314,557,955) and where we show a range is £173m (£173,752,316, the sum of the lower end of the donation ranges.)

Any UK nonprofit can subscribe to Factary Phi. Subscribers get 24/7/365 access to the database, unlimited searches, unlimited search time and a monthly newsletter on major gifts.

Factary Phi is one of a number of services provided by Factary, including data screening and analysis, prospect research, feasibility studies and major gift consultancy, as well as training.

Note for those wary of statistics:

The total amount given by individuals in the UK is approximately £9.9 billion per annum [Source: UK Giving 2009, Charities Aid Foundation.] The same source indicates that 26.9m people gave last year. So how can one database, showing only those donations recorded in the public domain show a similar total?

Three reasons; First, Factary Phi records donations over a number of years. Our database goes back to 2007, so we have more than three years of giving in the data set. Second, we’re reporting on the largest gifts; UK Giving 2009 estimates that high-value gifts represent 49% of the total amount given to charity. The database is ‘biased’ toward major gifts. Third, we take a broad definition of gifts – so we include donations to universities, museums, libraries, theatres, schools and political parties, as well as to charities.

For more details on Factary Phi contact:

phi@factary.com

For more details on Factary services contact:

Nicola Williams
Research Manager
Tel 0117 916 6740
Email nicolaw@factary.com

Christopher Carnie FRSA
Director
Tel +34 93 845 19 02
Email chris@factary.com