Hi EA Forum. I have been building GiveRadar (https://giveradar.com), a free platform that lets you look up nonprofits across borders. It currently covers 8M+ records from 145+ countries, sourced from official government registries, IATI, GlobalGiving, ProPublica, and Open Sanctions.
The project started because I was fundraising for a charity that builds schools in Africa and SEA, and realized there is no global equivalent of GuideStar. To build the database, I contacted charity registries in over 100 countries.
I thought this community would find it useful. Happy to answer questions about the data, methodology, or what I learned about global charity transparency infrastructure.
Would also love to hear any feedback or ideas!
Cheers.
Matt
A few things I'd love input on from this community:
What data points matter most to you when evaluating a charity? Right now GiveRadar shows registration status, financial filings, and cross-references against sanctions lists. But I'm curious what the EA community would actually want to see when looking up an organization. Program spend ratios? Staff size relative to budget? Something else entirely?
Also, if anyone has experience with charity data in countries I haven't covered yet, I'd love to hear about it. Especially interested in leads for Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia where registry data is hardest to find.
And for those who work with IATI, Open Sanctions, or similar open data sources, I'm curious if you've found ways to link organization identifiers across datasets reliably. Deduplication across 25+ country registries has been one of the trickiest technical challenges so far.
Happy to share more about the methodology, data sources, or architecture if anyone is interested.