About
Giving Ireland
WHAT IS GIVING IRELAND?
WHAT IS GIVING IRELAND?
Giving Ireland is a collaboration between 2into3 and Philanthropy Ireland.
It seeks to provide a platform for the Sector that will foster collaboration, provide insights and encourage collective action.
The Giving Ireland Report 2020 provides an analysis of how the Irish not-for-profit sector was funded in 2018. This is in response to an ongoing need for objective information on fundraising in Ireland. Formerly known as the annual ‘Irish Not-for-Profit Sector: Fundraising Performance Report,’ published by 2into3, this year marks the report’s 10th anniversary.
Giving Ireland’s objective is to provide insights into charitable giving in Ireland and support informed decision-making. The Report is intended to stimulate dialogue while encouraging more detailed and transparent reporting of fundraising data.
WHY USE THIS REPORT?
WHY USE THIS REPORT?
- Highlights funding trends with year-on-year comparisons
- Provides insight into Ireland’s giving culture in an international context
- Supports informed decision-making for fundraising organisations
- Landscape of charitable giving in Ireland from organisational point of view
- Fills a gap in data and analysis on the not-for-profit sector
- Encourages debate, collaboration and action that will elevate the sector
WHO WROTE THIS REPORT?
WHO WROTE THIS REPORT?
2into3 and Philanthropy Ireland came together to publish this report.
The research team at 2into3 are the authors of the report with contributions from Philanthropy Ireland.
BDO, one of Ireland’s largest accountancy and business advisory firms, complied the section relating to Taxation
HOW IS GIVING IRELAND DIFFERENT TO OTHER REPORTS?
HOW GIVING IRELAND IS DIFFERENT TO OTHER REPORTS?
The Giving Ireland Report estimates the total amount of philanthropic giving Ireland for the year 2018. This includes Legacies, Corporate Giving and Trusts & Foundations.
Where other reports focus on donor behaviour, such as CAF’s 2020 Ireland Giving Report, which examines the frequency of Giving by asking respondents whether they had donated funds or time in the last 30 days, Giving Ireland seeks to measure both individual and institutional fundraising in Ireland in a given year.
In addition, Giving Ireland breaks down the costs associated with fundraising by method and provides an overview of fundraising by subsector, method, and income bracket.
WHERE DOES THE DATA COME FROM?
WHERE DOES THE DATA COME FROM?
Giving Ireland’s data is sourced from Charities Regulator’s list of registered charities and Benefacts database.
Stratified random Sampling is used to depict the not-for-profit landscape in Ireland. This involves splitting the population of organisations into subsectors and taking a separate random sample from each of the subsector rather than a single random sample from the entire population.
When extrapolated, the relative size of each subsector is the same in both the sample and the population. Stratified sampling offers several advantages over simple random sampling, specifically it:
- Provides greater precision than a simple random sample of the same size
- Guards against an “unrepresentative” sample
- Provides sufficient sample sizes to support separate analyses of each subsector
- Ensures better coverage of the population than simple random sampling
See more on the Methodology.
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