Charity and nonprofit datasets: 7.9 million+ organizations across 100+ countries
Compiled from 50+ sources: official government registries and tax authorities first, vetted public directories where no open registry exists, always labeled, never mixed silently. Every record carries one normalized schema, and a 0-100 integrity assessment that measures disclosure, not impact, and cannot be bought.
{
"name": "...",
"country_code": "NL",
"registration_number": "...",
"category_group": "social-services",
"cause_tags": ["food", "poverty"],
"integrity_score": 76,
"website": "https://...",
"data_sources": ["anbi"]
}
What does the GiveRadar charity dataset contain?
One normalized record per nonprofit covering identity, registration, financials, governance, contact and an integrity assessment, in the same schema across 100+ countries. The main field groups:
Identity and registration
Legal name, registration identifiers (an EIN for US organizations, charity numbers, national registry IDs), country, city and region, founding year where recorded, category and cause tags, SDG goals.
Financials, where filed
Annual revenue and expenses, program, admin and fundraising breakdowns, assets and liabilities, multi-year filing history. Coverage follows what each regulator publishes; we show the gap instead of estimating around it.
Officers and governance
21 million+ officer and trustee records from public filings, including roles and, where disclosed, compensation.
Contact and digital presence
Organizational email, phone, address, website, social profiles and donation URL, where publicly disclosed. The rules are in the contact-data section below.
Integrity assessment
A 0-100 score from five components: Registration, Financial Transparency, Governance, Contact Availability and Data Recency, with red flags for high executive pay, stale filings and bare-minimum disclosure. See the methodology.
News monitoring
Recent coverage per charity from GDELT and Google News, displayed for transparency. News never affects the integrity assessment.
Every record shows a last-updated date tied to the most recent data pass for that charity's country, so you always know how fresh the slice you are querying is.
Where does the charity data come from?
From 50+ sources: official government registries and tax authorities where available, vetted public directories elsewhere, and the two are always labeled, never mixed silently. For most large countries the records originate with the national regulator or tax authority: the IRS in the United States, the Charity Commission for England and Wales, and their counterparts across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Oceania.
Some countries publish no open charity registry. There, records come from vetted public directories and humanitarian coordination data instead, which applies to most of the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia. For those countries we say a charity is "listed on GiveRadar", not "registered", we attach no registry claims, and financials are typically unavailable.
That distinction is documented rather than hidden. Each record names the sources it was built from in a data_sources field, available on paid API tiers, and the data sources page lists which of those sources are official registries and which are directories, so you can derive source type per record. There is no single registry-versus-directory flag to filter on directly. We never claim registry sourcing where it does not exist, and we never estimate missing figures.
Nonprofit contact database: organizational contact data, honestly sourced
The contact database inside the dataset holds organizational contact details only: emails, phones, addresses, websites, social profiles and donation URLs that charities or their regulators have published themselves. If you are looking for a nonprofit email list, here is exactly what we do and do not offer.
Organizational, not personal. Contact fields are the addresses organizations publish: registry-filed details and addresses like info@ from the charity's own website. We hold no private individuals' contact data. Officer records carry names, roles and publicly filed compensation from government filings, never personal emails or phone numbers.
Confidence-filtered. Every discovered email carries a 0-100 confidence score based on where it was found. Low-confidence emails are suppressed: they never appear on the site and never leave in an export.
GDPR-conscious by design. Generic organizational addresses are processed as organizational data. Any organization can review or remove its contact data by writing to [email protected], and our own outbound email is strictly opt-in.
Pro tier in the API. Contact fields are returned on the Pro and Enterprise tiers. The free tier returns identity, category, website and the integrity assessment.
Filterable at scale. Bulk exports are prepared per agreement and can be cut by country, category, revenue band, size, integrity score range, cause tags, and whether an email or phone is present, so a list holds only records that are actually usable for your purpose.
If you want a database of scraped personal contacts, we are the wrong vendor. If you want organizational contact data with provenance you can defend, this is it.
Take the slice you need, licensed per agreement
Full or filtered extracts as CSV, cut to your countries, categories and fields. There is no self-serve bulk download: every export is prepared and licensed per agreement, which is also how the contact-data rules above stay enforceable.
- Filter by country, category, revenue band, integrity score or cause tag
- Only fields the source actually publishes, never estimated
- Refresh cadence agreed up front, per country pass
- Academic access terms available for research use
- 100,000 API requests a day alongside the export
- Scope and cadence set per contract
- Provenance retained per record
How do researchers, grantmakers and data buyers use the dataset?
Three kinds of bulk users, one schema. In every case the same honesty rule applies: the integrity assessment describes disclosure, not merit. It is not a recommendation engine and we do not sell rankings.
Cross-country analysis
Registration density, financial disclosure rates, governance patterns and category distributions on one schema instead of 50+ incompatible registry formats. Academic access terms via [email protected].
Screening at portfolio scale
Screen applicant pools and monitor portfolios: registration status, filing recency, expense ratios where filed, officer records and red flags, queryable per organization or in batches.
Verification and enrichment
Fundraising platforms, payment processors, CSR and workplace-giving tools and consultants confirm an organization exists, pull its identifiers and category, and enrich records with disclosed organizational contact data.
How do you access the charity dataset?
Access starts free: a self-serve API key gives you ten requests a day, with no credit card and no approval process. Three routes in, by volume.
| Route | What it is for | Volume | Start here |
|---|---|---|---|
| REST API | Query by search or fetch a full record per charity: /api/v1/search/, /api/v1/charity/{slug}/, plus per-charity financials and news endpoints and a global /api/v1/stats/. |
10 a day free, 10,000 a day on Pro | API documentation OpenAPI 3.1 spec |
| MCP server | AI agents and assistants query the dataset directly with four tools: search, compare, find similar, and verify a charity by registration identifier. | Anonymous access, 10 a day per IP | Charity MCP server |
| Bulk export | Full or filtered extracts as CSV, cut to your countries, categories and fields. No self-serve download: every export is prepared and licensed per agreement. | Enterprise, scope per contract | Email your use case |
Larger API volumes run on the Pro and Enterprise tiers; current plans and pricing are on the API page. Licensing terms for bulk and commercial use are agreed per contract. GiveRadar's methodology documentation and data schemas are published openly under CC BY 4.0.
What this dataset does not include
No impact ratings. The integrity assessment measures disclosure and governance signals. It does not measure effectiveness, and a low score is not an accusation.
No sanctions or AML screening. GiveRadar performs no sanctions, watchlist or anti-money-laundering checks. Do not use this dataset as a compliance screening source.
No personal contact data. No private emails, no private phone numbers, no donor data. Officer names and compensation come from public government filings only.
No estimated financials. Where a country's regulator does not publish figures, the fields are empty. We do not model or backfill them.
No uniform global coverage. Field coverage varies by country and follows what each source publishes. Directory-sourced countries usually lack financials and registration numbers, and are labeled as such.
Charity dataset FAQ
Can I download the GiveRadar charity dataset as a CSV?
Not self-serve. Bulk CSV extracts are an Enterprise product, prepared per agreement and filtered to your countries, categories and fields.
Email [email protected] with your use case. For programmatic access, the REST API free tier gives you ten requests a day instantly, with no credit card.
Does GiveRadar sell nonprofit email lists?
We license organizational contact data, which is narrower than a typical email list: only addresses that charities or their regulators have published, confidence-filtered, with no personal contacts.
Contact fields are Pro tier in the API and can be included in Enterprise exports, which are prepared per agreement. Organizations can have their contact data removed via [email protected].
Is this charity dataset US-only, like IRS-based sources?
No. IRS-based platforms cover US nonprofits; this dataset covers 100+ countries on one normalized schema, adds a 0-100 integrity assessment per organization, and offers a free API tier.
Detailed comparisons with US-focused platforms: GiveRadar vs ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer and GiveRadar vs Candid.
What license does the charity dataset carry?
Bulk and commercial use is licensed per contract via [email protected].
GiveRadar's methodology documentation and data schemas are published openly under CC BY 4.0. Underlying registry data remains subject to each registry's own terms, which is one reason we document provenance per source.
Query 7.9M+ records for free
Ten requests a day, instant key, no card. Bulk extracts are arranged per agreement whenever you need the whole slice.