Problem

Every nonprofit has to raise funds, attract supporters, and form partnerships. Despite facing these common challenges, nonprofits don't learn as much from each other as they could.

The problem isn't a lack of information on what non-profits are up to. There's actually a ton of it out there on the web - the problem is its messy and scattered across charity databases, news articles, social media, and other sources.

This fragmentation of information hinders nonprofit decision making, since organizations lack a complete picture of how they fit within their sector. There's a lot they could learn from their peers about how to be more effective - if only they knew who their peers were, what they do, and who funds them.

In addition to enabling better organizational decisions, putting this information at nonprofits' fingertips will allow nonprofits to spend less time digging around for information and more time focusing on their core missions.

Giving Graph is a project that assembles information on nonprofits scattered throughout the web, and uses this data to build a social network that links nonprofits, companies, and people. Nonprofits could eventually use this network to answer these and other burning questions:

1. Who are my peer organizations within my sector?
2. Which nonprofits can I partner with?
3. Which companies fund nonprofits in my sector?
4. What is my impact on social media, and what are the characteristics of my followers?