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

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