How this site works

Sources

All register data comes from the Charity Commission for England and Wales register extract (updated daily), used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Accounts documents are the PDFs each charity filed with the Commission. Grant data on funder pages is extracted from the funder’s own accounts, and — where the funder also publishes open grants data through 360Giving — cross-checked against that publication.

Automated reading, with an evidence rule

We use a language model to read each accounts document and extract specific disclosures: the highest pay band, the reserves policy and position, going-concern statements, related-party transactions, payments to trustees, the audit opinion, and the list of grants made to institutions.

The evidence rule: every sensitive claim must be backed by a verbatim passage from the document itself. Our software verifies that the passage genuinely appears in the filing; a claim whose supporting passage cannot be verified is discarded and never published. The passage and the filing year are always displayed next to the claim. An empty field always beats an inferred one.

Measured accuracy: for funders that also publish open grants data through 360Giving, 67% of our extracted grant recipients match their own published records by name (measured over 34 funders, 1645 grants; differences largely reflect the awarded-vs-paid timing basis). This check runs weekly.

What a flag means — and doesn’t

A flag here means the charity’s own accounts disclose something worth reading: reserves under the charity’s own policy target, a going-concern note, a related-party transaction. Disclosure is what well-governed charities are supposed to do. Nothing on this site alleges wrongdoing, and grant lists may be partial where a funder’s accounts only name its major grants — pages say so when the listed grants do not reconcile to the accounts’ stated total.

Corrections

If you represent a charity and believe a page misreads your filing, contact us at [email protected] with the charity number and the passage in question. We check against the filed document and correct promptly.