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Benefacts

Benefacts Database of Irish Nonprofits 2015 - 2021

Study number (SN): 0077-00

CITATION

ABOUT THE DATASET

Benefacts Database of Irish Nonprofits was created by Benefacts CLG during the seven-year period 2015-2021 using records derived in the main from the public disclosures of nonprofit entities, public regulators, registrars and providers of public funding. No personal data is included in the database.

Besides regulatory and compliance data (name, Eircode, regulatory status and numbers), the database also includes data derived where available from the constitutions of nonprofit organisations (the objects clause or purpose for which the nonprofit was established), and from their financial statements. This data was updated at least annually as nonprofits filed returns to their respective regulatory authorities including but not limited to the Companies Registration Office, Revenue, the Charities Regulatory Authority.

The financial data was re-keyed by Benefacts own staff from third party documents retrieved from the Companies Office (companies, co-operatives, trades unions), the Library of the Houses of the Oireachtas (statutory bodies) and the Standards in Public Office Commission (political parties). While all reasonable care was taken by Benefacts in the digitisation of these records using documents retrieved from regulatory sources (mainly financial statements prepared by third parties) Benefacts did not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information contained and accepted no responsibility for errors or omissions.

For each nonprofit listed, Benefacts also provided a unique identifier, an Eircode where available and a classification standard derived from international taxonomies promulgated by the UN and Eurostat for the purposes of the System of National Accounts.

Benefacts built the Benefacts Database using Irish Public Sector Information. licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

The sources from which Benefacts derived the data were:

• Charities Regulatory Authority (for registered charities) – Benefacts accessed the open data files published and periodically updated by the Regulator with variable data for charities

• Companies Registration Office (for companies, friendly societies and trades unions) – Benefacts purchased a daily updated feed providing consistent company return data , along with image files for constitutions and financial statements from a re-seller under the terms of the CRO’s license terms

• Department of Education (for primary and secondary schools) – Benefacts consulted the Department’s website and updated its database annually

• Library of the Houses of the Oireachtas (for the financial statements of bodies -other than State bodies - established by statute) – Benefacts consulted the Library’s website and updated its database periodically

• Revenue (for the names of sports bodies and charities availing of tax relief) – Benefacts consulted Revenue.ie and updated its database quarterly

• Standards in Public Office Commission (for political parties) – Benefacts accessed the accounts of political parties from the SIPO’s website, and digitised their contents annually

The terms of this license in turn apply to users of Benefacts database. This means that users may copy, modify, publish, translate, adapt, distribute or otherwise use the information in any medium, mode or format for any lawful purpose. Users must acknowledge the source of the information by indicating they have accessed Irish Public Sector Information licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

Data creators
Patricia Quinn on behalf of Benefacts CLG 6 Merrion Square Dublin D02 FF95 patricia.quinn@benefacts.ie

Data collectors
Patricia Quinn on behalf of Benefacts CLG 6 Merrion Square Dublin D02 FF95 patricia.quinn@benefacts.ie

The study was funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies, The Department of Public Expenditure & Reform, The Ireland Funds.

MAIN TOPICS

• Arts, Culture, Media
• Recreation, Sports
• Education, Research
• Health (including social care)
• Social Services
• Development (including local development, job creation), Housing
• Environment
• Advocacy, Law, Politics
• Philanthropy, Voluntarism
• International (including affiliation and development)
• Religion
• Professional, Vocational

COVERAGE, UNIVERSE, METHODOLOGY

Population

All publicly-registered nonprofit entities in the Republic of Ireland between 2015 and 2021, however incorporated or regulated.

Observation units

• Institutions / Organisations

Temporal coverage

From 2015 to 2021

Time dimension

Not Applicable

Geographical coverage

Country: Ireland

Methods of data collection

Compilation or synthesis of existing material

Sampling procedures

Not Applicable

Response rate

Not Applicable

DATA AND DOCUMENTATION: FILES’ DESCRIPTION

Data (available to download)

Documentation (available for download)

LINKS

www.benefactslegacy.ie

ACCESS INFORMATION

Accessing the data

The data is freely available to download. Users must acknowledge the source of the information by indicating they have accessed Irish Public Sector Information licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

Copyright

The copyright in the Database of Irish Nonprofits 2015 – 2021 (the “Benefacts Database”), from which the Data Collection is derived, belongs to Benefacts CLG, which is the company that created it. (CRO 553387)

Acknowledgements

Any work based in whole or part on resources provided by the ISSDA, should  acknowledge: “Benefacts" and also ISSDA, in the following way: “Accessed via the Irish Social Science Data Archive - www.ucd.ie/issda”.

Citation requirement

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Bibliographical citation

Benefacts. (2022). Benefacts Database of Irish Nonprofits 2015 - 2021. [dataset]. Version 1. Irish Social Science Data Archive. SN: 0077-00. https://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/benefacts/

Notification

The user shall notify the Irish Social Science Data Archive of all publications where she or he has used the data.