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Should I use CharityBase?
The database of charities. - charitybase.uk
· 17 hours ago
A free, open-source database and GraphQL API covering ~170,000 UK charities — excellent for developers, grant-makers and researchers needing Charity Commission data. Not a donor CRM: charities wanting fundraising, donations or contact-management software should look elsewhere.
Medium. Based on ~15 public sources; mostly comparisons, blogs and listings — very few direct user reviews.
Free
Open Source
high
Sole volunteer maintainer; API availability depends on continued sponsorship
medium
No security page, SLA or uptime commitment published
medium
Self-hosting means constructing the database yourself from raw sources
Value for money: 5/5
Rating
Free
Starting price
10
Sources
Analyzed
Free
No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.
Independent user reviews are sparse, but data-sector write-ups describe CharityBase as a useful free way to explore Charity Commission data.
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Based on ~15 public sources; mostly comparisons, blogs and listings — very few direct user reviews.
Free open-source UK charity data API. Great for research and devs; useless as a donor CRM.
Based on ~15 public sources; mostly comparisons, blogs and listings — very few direct user reviews.
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