About
Our World in Data is a collaborative effort between researchers at the University of Oxford, who are the scientific editors of the website content; and the non-profit organization Global Change Data Lab (GCDL), which publishes and maintains the website and the data tools that make our work possible.
GCDL is a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity Number 1186433). Our work is funded through grants and donations from readers who support our project.
Grants
We are supported by grants from foundations including the Wellcome Trust, the Gates Foundation, the Skip Foundation, Coefficient Giving, and the Mohn Westlake Foundation.
In the past, we have also received grants from the Quadrature Climate Foundation, Y Combinator, GiveWell, among others.
You can find a full breakdown of our funding, as well as our audited financial statements, in our Trustees’ Annual Report. In this document, you can also find details about our organizational structure and the most recent report on how we are spending our funds.1
Donations
Our work is also made possible by supporters who donate directly on our website. More than 4,000 people have donated over the past couple of years.
When donating, we ask each supporter whether they agree to be listed publicly, and most have agreed – here are the names and dedications provided by these readers. We update this donor list quarterly.
Some supporters listed here donated via the crowdfunding campaign in 2015 to “help save OurWorldInData.org” on the crowdfunding platform Tilt.com. Other supporters who donated directly to our project preferred to remain anonymous.
Huge thanks to everyone!
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Endnotes
We update this link to our latest report when it is finalized by October each year, with the report covering the previous calendar year. Previous reports are available from the Charity Commission’s website.