Intelligence for UK philanthropy

Charity intelligence, not charity data.

The register tells you a charity exists. Dana House tells you whether it delivers: eight evidence-led scores per charity, peer benchmarks and cause classification, built by reading annual reports, accounts and websites at a scale no research team could. 50,000+ charities carry a full scorecard.

99.9%
Of charities with over £100k income, fully scored and classified
200,000+
Active UK charities, all three regulators, classified
8
Intelligent dimensions per scorecard

50,000+ fully scored. Counts as of July 2026.

What you can do

  • Screen a grantee in minutes, not days
  • Find charities by cause across a 115-cause taxonomy
  • Compare charities on consistent, evidence-led scores
  • Track filings and score changes on a watchlist
  • Export CSVs or pull everything over the API

What full coverage means

Income £10m+99.8% scored
Income £1m to £10m99.7% scored
Income £100k to £1m99.9% scored
Income under £100kCoverage in development

Verified against production, July 2026: 50,536 fully scored, 99.9% of active charities with income above £100k. Smaller charities file less, so we score them as evidence becomes available rather than guessing. Where evidence is thin, we say so on the profile.

Eight intelligent scores across 50,000+ charities

Every scored charity receives eight independent scores, each calibrated against the full UK charity population, not arbitrary thresholds.

Scores are evidence-led proxies, not audited measures. Select a score for its definition and an example.

Trust

Depth and consistency of public evidence, governance and transparency standing.

Independence

Funder and grant diversification, freedom from single-backer dependence.

Underserved cause

Whether the cause and area is under-served rather than saturated.

Significance

Scale and reach relative to peers, beneficiary need and cause severity.

Execution strength

Operational and financial delivery capacity, continuity and stability.

Impact plausibility

Whether the stated work credibly turns into real delivery.

Hidden gem

Quality higher than the charity's visibility would suggest.

Funding efficiency

Deployment quality of spending and directional financial health.

Coverage by income

Where the money actually moves.

Breadth across the whole register, depth on the part of the sector that moves money.

The UK has 200,000+ active charities. About 149,000 of them report income under £100k. They are roughly three quarters of the register by number, and about 2% of the more than £100bn the sector moves each year. The 50,000 charities at £100k and above hold the other 98%.

Share of charities by income band
74.7%
19.9%
Share of sector income by band
9.1%
19.9%
68.9%
Under £100k149,152 charities
£100k to £1m39,737 charities
£1m to £10m8,840 charities
£10m and above2,033 charities

What full coverage means

Coverage is reported by income because that is where funding decisions sit. 99.9% of charities with over £100k income are fully scored and classified: 50,536 of the 50,610 active charities in that tier carry a full eight-dimension scorecard, and the coverage holds across every band above £100k.

Smaller charities file less, so we score them as evidence becomes available rather than guessing. The 149,000 charities below £100k are classified with a confidence band, but most file too little public evidence to score on all eight dimensions. Classification runs daily, so depth on the smaller end of the register expands with each run and the threshold moves down over time. Where evidence is thin, we say so on the profile.

Figures from the live register, July 2026. Scores are evidence-led proxies, not audited measures.

What you can do with the intelligence

Watchlists

Build curated lists of charities around a specific cause, geography, or funding priority. Track score movers over time. Export a full watchlist report as a PDF.

  • Cause allocation breakdown per watchlist
  • Execution band distribution chart
  • Snapshot date and score history

Discover

Filter and search the full scored register by cause, score band, income tier, geography, or keyword. Save filtered views for regular use.

  • Scored charities only toggle
  • Cause and band compound filters
  • Saved search results

Compare

Place up to four charities side by side. See intelligent scores, financial metrics, and cause profiles in one view. Save comparison snapshots for reference.

  • Decision lens framing per comparison
  • Recommendation summary cards
  • Exportable comparison snapshot

Research

Sector intelligence reports covering cause-level funding patterns, underfunded areas, and structural signals. Written from the data, not from press releases.

  • Cause-area funding analyses
  • Hidden gem signal reports
  • Sector Pulse sector overview

Dossier exports

A full charity dossier as a formatted PDF: intelligent scores, financial history, similar organisations, cause funding context. Built for due diligence reference.

  • Three-page structured PDF
  • Score narratives and financial timeline
  • Similar organisations by cause and band

API access

Query the scored charity dataset programmatically. Integrate into internal systems, audit flows, or screening tools. API access included on Funder (25,000 records/mo) and Enterprise (500,000 records/mo) plans.

  • REST API with JSON responses
  • Lookup by charity number or name
  • Intelligent scores and core metrics included

How the score is built

We don't resell the register. Every scored charity passes through a multi-stage pipeline, ingested from three national registries, entity-resolved, website-crawled, and weighted against the full UK charity population.

CCEW
OSCR
CCNI
Source registers
Ingestion & enrichment pipeline
Eight intelligent scores
Scoring
Ranked register, 50,000+ scored charities
Watchlists
Dossiers
API
Product surfaces

How fresh is the data

Classification runs daily as new filings arrive. Intelligent scores refresh quarterly, or sooner when a material filing lands. Every profile shows its last-updated date.

Plans and pricing

Structured charity intelligence for institutions, analysts, and capital allocators. All plans self-serve. No long-term contracts.

Built from canonical UK public registers: Charity Commission England & Wales, OSCR Scotland, and CCNI Northern Ireland.