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Datasets
Benefacts regulatory data 2016 – 2022
Benefacts governance data 2015 – 2022
Benefacts financial data 2015 – 2022
Benefacts Legacy directory 2023
Benefacts Legacy directory 2024
Analysis reports
Each year from 2017, Benefacts used all of the data on Irish nonprofits harvested from the previous year to prepare and publish free reports analysing the funding, governance and employment profile of the entire nonprofit sector.
For the first time in Ireland, this analysis was based on available full population data for registered nonprofits, rather than on limited and partial surveys.
Sector analysis
Benefacts Nonprofit Sector Analysis 2021 (view launch video)
Benefacts Nonprofit Sector Analysis 2020 (view launch video)
Benefacts Nonprofit Sector Analysis 2019 (view launch video)
Benefacts Nonprofit Sector Analysis 2018 (view launch video)
Benefacts Nonprofit Sector Analysis 2017
Philanthropy and giving
Philanthropic and charitable giving report 2021 (view launch video)
Charities in Ireland report 2021 (view launch video)
Philanthropy in Ireland report 2020 ( view launch video)
Charitable Giving in Ireland 2020 (view launch video)
Constitutional documents
Guidestar Ireland/Irish Nonprofits Knowledge Exchange
Benefacts CLG
Benefacts Legacy DAC
Corporate reports
The Directors of INKEx and later of Benefacts produced an annual report and financial statements each year.
INKEx
Directors report and financial statements for …
Directors Report and financial statements for …
Benefacts
Directors report and financial statements 2015
Directors report and financial statements 2016
Directors report and financial statements 2017
Directors report and financial statements 2018
Directors report and financial statements 2019
Directors report and financial statements 2020
Directors report and financial statements 2021
Directors report and financial statements 2022
Financial support
About 10,000 users per month availed of the free data, analysis functionality and published reports freely provided on Benefacts.ie.
In addition, during the fifteen years combined effort of Benefacts, its predecessor pathfinder and successor legacy projects, many State and philanthropic actors provided financial support including grants, donations and fees for services. There are itemised in the companies’ financial statements and are listed below.
Sources of the Irish Nonprofit Project’s earned and grant revenues
Public sector bodies*
- Charities Regulator
- Department of Employment and Social Protection
- The Department of Further & Higher Education, Research, Innovation & Science
- Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade
- Department of Health
- Department of Housing, Local Development & Heritage
- Department of Justice & Equality
- Department of Public Expenditure & Reform*
- Department of Rural & Community Development
- Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council
- European Commission
- Fingal County Council
- Health Service Executive
- Housing Agency
- Housing Regulator
- Kildare County Council
- Office of the Comptroller & Auditor General
- Oireachtas Library and Research Service
- Tusla
Corporate clients and donors, philanthropies**, sector lead bodies
- 2into3
- Appian Asset Management
- Arthur Cox
- Atlantic Philanthropies*
- Carmichael
- Charities Institute Ireland
- CIMA Ireland
- Circle Housing
- Denis O’Brien Foundation
- Dublin City University
- Institute of Chartered Accountants
- Ireland Funds*
- Irish Charities Tax Research
- Irish Life
- JL Greene Foundation*
- Katherine Howard Foundation*
- National Council for the Blind of Ireland
- Not-for-profit Business Association
- National Federation of Voluntary Service Providers.
- O’Kennedy Philanthropic Fund*
- Parnell Square Foundation
- Philanthropy Ireland
- Pieta House
- Rethink Ireland
- Saint Michael’s House
- St. Stephens Green Trust*
- The Wheel