Benefacts

About Benefacts: Founded in 2014, Benefacts provides Ireland's only comprehensive and publicly-available database of civil society, nonprofit and voluntary organisations in Ireland. Benefacts promotes the transparency of Irish nonprofits, by giving free online access to regulatory, financial and governance data about the sector in Ireland. Who fund... s Benefacts: Benefacts is a registered nonprofit, which receives funding from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, The Ireland Funds, other government agencies and philanthropists. Where the data comes from: Benefacts has created the Database of Irish Nonprofits from the publicly available regulatory filings of Ireland's entire population of nonprofit companies including registered charities. This year's report utilises the 2018 financial statements of10,357 nonprofitsfiled during 2019. Who uses the data: Benefacts' information is used by sector leaders, policymakers, public bodies, statisticians and analysts, the media and the general public to enable informed decisions and views on Ireland's nonprofit sector.Read More