What is an org-id identifier?

An org-id is a standard organisation identifier used in open data. It joins a list code, which names the register an organisation appears on, to that organisation's number on the register. The org-id.guide register of lists, maintained by Open Data Services Co-operative for partners including 360Giving, gives the example GB-COH-09506232, where GB-COH is the list code for Companies House and 09506232 is the company number. A charity registered in England and Wales is GB-CHC- plus its charity number, a Scottish charity GB-SC- plus its SC number, and a Northern Ireland charity GB-NIC- plus its NIC number.

Why it matters when applying. Every grant published in the 360Giving Data Standard must carry a funding organisation identifier and a recipient organisation identifier, and those are org-ids. That is what lets GrantNav gather every grant a charity has received onto one recipient page, and every grant a funder has made onto one funder page, however the names were spelt. If your organisation's name changed, the org-id still matches.

How to use it. GrantNav funder pages sit at an address ending in the org-id, so the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is at /org/GB-CHC-200051. OpenGrant's peers lookup accepts a charity number or an org identifier and uses the same scheme to match organisations to published grants. How to use 360Giving data to find funders works through the steps.

Example. A fictional community interest company has no charity number, so in 360Giving data it appears under its Companies House number as GB-COH- followed by eight digits. Searching GrantNav by that identifier shows every publishing funder that has given to it.