More than 80,000 people serve in the governance of Irish nonprofits and charities.
Find out moreThe Third Sector in Ireland has at least 163,000 paid employees. This number doesn't include teachers, who are paid directly by Government, or unpaid volunteers.
Find out moreAt €5.9bn, Government was the biggest single source of funding to the Third Sector in 2017. This was 8.4% of all current Government spending that year - but the profile varies a lot from sector to sector.
Find out moreBenefacts Database of Irish Nonprofits is the source of all of the data and analysis on this website. We compile the database from more than 10 public sources, including the Companies Registration Office and the Charities Regulator, as well as 27 Public Participation Networks. We clean and aggregate it and re-publish the public data here as a free service.
Information about individual nonprofits is updated regularly as they file fresh information with public regulators. Our 2019 analysis is a macro level snapshot of the whole sector, prepared with data that was available at the end of Q1 in that year. We will publish the next annual analysis at the end of Q1 2020.
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