The team included financial data analysts, database and software engineers, data and project managers and sector specialists. Their work involved

• Engaging with nonprofits and their stakeholders
• Establishing a basis for defining “nonprofit” in the Irish context – essentially, every organisation that was not part of the public sector or part of the private sector
• Identifying all of the sources of regulatory filings by nonprofits from which data would be derived under the provisions of Re-Use of Public Information regulations
• Consulting on and publishing a localised classification standard based on UN/Eurostat norms
• Designing, building and populating the base register of Irish Nonprofits which in turn involved
  • Accessing, cleaning and normalising data from multiple sources about the same organisations
  • Assigning a Unique Identifier (Benefacts ID) to each nonprofit, classifying it and searching for its Eircode and web address
  • Building a proprietary tool for manually harvesting the contents of nonprofits’ financial statements
  • Verifying, organising and storing the data in a proprietary database
  • Commissioning and publishing a searchable website for publishing the data in a highly accessible way