Who Funds What · Updated 6 November 2026
Ownership, funding and control, from the disclosure records
Political donation disclosure, lobbying and foreign influence registers, grant databases and charity filings, compared across jurisdictions.
Data tools
- Registers
A sourced directory of official registers that disclose lobbying, foreign influence, political donations, grants, charity filings and company control.
- Donation rules
Donation reporting thresholds, limits, reporting bodies and timing for the UK, US, Australia and Germany's lobby register, from laws and regulators.
- Lobby registers
A sourced directory of lobbying registers in the US, EU, UK, Scotland, Canada, Ireland, France and Germany, with registration tests and published data.
- FEC committees
Registered US party committees and political action committees from the FEC, with type, designation, party, state, filing dates and ID.
Ownership and control
- How to read a funding disclosure
A step-by-step guide to reading donation, lobbying, charity and ownership disclosures: thresholds, reporting periods, bands and what is not published.
- Ownership, funding and control: three different questions
How ownership, funding and control differ in official records, from UK PSC rules and US BOI reporting to lobby and charity registers.
Political money and lobbying
- Foreign influence registration schemes compared
How the US FARA, the UK Foreign Influence Registration Scheme and Australia's FITS work: who registers, deadlines, penalties and what is public.
- Lobbying registers compared
Who must register as a lobbyist and what is published in the US, EU, UK, Canada, Ireland, France and Germany, from the laws and register pages.
- Political donation disclosure compared
How political donations are reported in the UK, the US and Australia: thresholds, reporting bodies, timing and the Australian changes due in 2027.
Grants and charities
- Charity and nonprofit filings compared
What US Form 990 returns, UK Charity Commission annual returns and Canada's T3010 require, when they are due, and what they show about funding.
- Government grant databases explained
What USAspending, the EU Financial Transparency System, Canada's grants disclosure, Australia's GrantConnect and UK 360Giving data cover and leave out.
- Research funding disclosure rules
How researchers and institutions disclose funding and financial interests: ICMJE journal rules, NIH conflict of interest rules, Open Payments and FITS.