About GiveRadar:
charity transparency for everyone

GiveRadar is a free charity intelligence platform that aggregates data from 50+ official government registries across 65+ countries. Integrity assessments, financial breakdowns, officer records, contact details, and red flag detection for over 7 million+ nonprofits worldwide.

The problem

Charity data is fragmented and inaccessible

Every year, billions of dollars flow to charities worldwide. But donors and organizations have no easy way to verify where that money goes. Government registries are scattered across hundreds of websites in dozens of languages. Financial filings are buried in PDFs. Contact information is outdated or missing entirely. And for the small local charities that often do the most concentrated good, finding them at all is nearly impossible from outside their home country.

Our solution

One platform, every charity, every country

GiveRadar pulls data from official government registries, tax authorities, and open data portals worldwide. We normalize, enrich, and present it in one clean interface. One search gives you integrity checks, financials, officers, contact details, and red flags for any charity in our coverage, whether it is a large international NGO or a small community organization in rural Southeast Asia.

Matt Timmermans, founder of GiveRadar

Matt Timmermans

Founder, GiveRadar

Meet the founder

Why I built GiveRadar

I have always believed that giving matters, even when the donation is small. Personally, I have preferred donating to small charities that focus on a very specific problem in a community. Those are the organizations that rarely make headlines but make a real difference in the lives of the people they serve.

When I tried to find charities in foreign countries, it was genuinely hard to find a smaller one. Search engines would only show me the big, well-known names. Everything else was invisible. Around the same time, I was raising money for a charity by running the New York Marathon, and I realized there had to be a better solution: the lack of searchability and transparency of charities worldwide was a problem worth solving.

Every charity deserves to be found, because what they do matters. And every donor deserves to know what their money is used for. I believe that with transparency, we can create a system where the charities doing real good get empowered to do more of it.

It also helps avoid situations where donations end up in the wrong hands instead of supporting programs. If an organization chooses to operate that way, that is their choice, but donors deserve to know. And for that, we need a transparent system.

My hope is that GiveRadar contributes to building that system. A charity intelligence platform that empowers charities to do what they love most: making a positive impact for the greater good. That is all I really want: to help good people do more good.

What you can find on GiveRadar

Integrity checks

A structured assessment of operational transparency, financial health, and governance quality, based on official registry and filing data.

Financial Breakdowns

Revenue, expenses, assets, overhead ratios, and program spending from official tax filings.

9.7M+ officer records

Named directors, trustees, and key employees with their roles, titles, and compensation data where disclosed.

Contact Details

Emails, phone numbers, websites, and social media profiles for direct outreach.

Red Flags

Automated warnings for high executive pay, missing filings, low program spending, sanctions matches, and governance issues.

Community Reviews

Verified reviews from donors, volunteers, employees, and beneficiaries with email verification.

How GiveRadar compares

Global coverage, full contact data, and completely free.

GiveRadar Charity Navigator GuideStar
Charities covered 7M+ ~200K ~1.8M
Countries 65++ US only US only
Contact data Emails, phones, social Limited Limited
Officer records 9.7M+ with compensation Top officers only Partial
Red flag detection Automated Advisory only No
Price Free Free (basic) Paid tiers

Countries we cover

Data from 65+ countries, sourced from official government registries.

United States United Kingdom Canada Australia Germany France Netherlands Japan Norway Sweden India Nepal South Korea Taiwan Brazil Ireland Peru Scotland View all countries
Coming soon

What we are building next

GiveRadar started as a transparency layer for the world's charities. We are now extending the platform with two major additions.

First, AI translation of charity data from underserved languages like Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Chinese, so that small local organizations in non-English-speaking countries become findable to international donors for the first time.

Second, AI-assisted research context that helps donors understand what the research says about the problems a charity works on and the interventions it uses. This second capability is designed honestly: for charities where evidence is strong, we say so. Where evidence is limited or absent, we say that too. We do not produce confident impact scores for organizations that lack the data to support them.

This work is informed by conversations with leading Dutch sector bodies, including Goede Doelen Nederland, Stichting Effectief Doneren, and Kenniscentrum Filantropie, who have reviewed and informed our approach.

The company behind GiveRadar

GiveRadar is a product of Timmermans Media OÜ, registered in Tallinn, Estonia. We believe that transparency in the nonprofit sector benefits everyone: donors make better decisions, honest charities get more funding, and bad actors get exposed.

We are currently exploring a transition to a Dutch foundation (stichting) structure to formally align our legal form with our public-benefit mission.

For nonprofits

Claim your charity profile

If you represent a nonprofit, you can find your organization on GiveRadar and claim your profile. Verified organizations can update their description, contact info, and add a donation link. Claiming is free and does not affect the integrity signals or financial data we display.

Learn more about claiming
Verified badge in search results
Update description, contact info, and mission
Add direct donation link
Completely free