Where mySociety’s funding comes from

mySociety’s work is funded by a variety of means: grants from charitable foundations, donations from private individuals, and commercial income from our trading subsidiary, SocietyWorks.

Thank you to the grantmaking organisations whose support enables us to transform ideas into meaningful impact. We are equally grateful to every individual who has chosen to donate. Our mission relies on your generosity and it’s important to us that we are transparent and communicate with you about how we steward your gift.

Our published accounts are available at the Charity Commission’s website and you can view the real-world impact of our work here.

If you are considering donating please click here to find out more.

We have received support from

Adessium FoundationThe Dulverton TrustThe Indigo TrustThe Joseph Rowntree Charitable TrustJohn Ellerman FoundationJoseph Rowntree Reform TrustNLnet FoundationPatrick J McGovern FoundationPorticusLlywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government

We asked our donors to describe mySociety

helpfulnecessaryappreciatefocusedinvaluableinvolvementdemocracypositiveprincipledinformationsubtlelearnsourcetransparentforward-thinkinggreatdemocratichonestyequalityjusticehelpingapproachableusefulhonesttrustinformativetechnicalmoraleffectiveempowering

Your donations

Your contributions, one-off or regular, large or small, all help us in our mission to create a fairer, safer future. And every little helps – take a look at our donations page to see how.

We’d particularly like to thank Mr John Cross for supporting our Transparency programme with a major gift.

We are always happy to hear from anyone who is interested in funding the work that we do – please contact our Head of Fundraising on funding@mysociety.org.

We provide software and data as a commercial service

SocietyWorks Ltd is our social enterprise creating citizen-centred digital solutions for local government and other clients. Through the SocietyWorks suite of products, we offer Software (SaaS) and consultancy – our experience can be of great use to organisations in the wider civic arena, national governments, local authorities, other public services and charities.

The profits from these activities goes towards supporting our charitable projects, providing future sustainability. In FY 2025/26 SocietyWorks profits contributed 47% of mySociety’s overall income.

If you would like to speak to us about our commercial work please contact enquiries@societyworks.org.

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you would like to discuss any of the above – we would love to hear from you.