World Charity Insights Survey 2026

The World Giving Report series brings together a team of partners, led by the Charities Aid Foundation, from across more than 35 countries to deliver pioneering research on the global third sector. Ensure your organisation is represented in that important work. You can browse the 2025 insights here.

This project will help understand how charitable organisations in different countries operate, the challenges they face, and the roles they play in society. By adding your response to those of thousands of other similar organisations, you’ll be taking part in a truly global, highly ambitious project that ultimately aims to strengthen civil society around the world.

This short survey will cover different aspects of your organisation, including finances and operations, so it requires someone who knows the organisation well. Please do pass this link onto them if you are not that person.

Your responses will be completely anonymous, and the questions should take around 10 minutes to complete. You can save your response and return later if you need (there will be a toolbar at the bottom). Please look out for the overall results to be published in September, later this year.

In this survey, the term “organisation” is used to refer to any charitable organisation that works to try and improve issues that are affecting individuals, communities, society as a whole, animals or the natural environment. You might work locally, across the whole country and / or internationally. You might refer to yourself as a non-profit, NGO (non-governmental organisation), a civil society organisation (CSO), a community organisation, a social purpose organisation, a foundation, an association or one of a number of other ways ‘a charity’ can be translated around the world.

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