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Total Donations by Sector

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Total Donations by Sector

Data from Jan 2012 to Dec 2020

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:24 SGT

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

This dataset is published in the Commissioner of Charities Annual Report which contains the amount of total donations sorted annually by Sector.

Total Donations by Sector

Data explorer

TotalDonationsbySector.csv (63 rows, 2.4 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Donations Text	Primary Sector Text	Value Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2020	Total Donations	Religious & Others	1519.5
2020	Total Donations	Social & Welfare	608.6
2020	Total Donations	Arts & Heritage	69
2020	Total Donations	Health	432.1
2020	Total Donations	Education	418.5
2020	Total Donations	Community	58.2
2020	Total Donations	Sports	14
2019	Total Donations	Religious & Others	1715.8
2019	Total Donations	Social & Welfare	494.4
2019	Total Donations	Arts & Heritage	77.2

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Donations	level_1	Text	-	Type
Primary Sector	level_2	Text	-	Primary Sector of the charities
Value	value	Numeric	Number	Amount in S$ millions

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_1631877026d388b4c358812df1cc8612"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth. (2023). Total Donations by Sector (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_1631877026d388b4c358812df1cc8612/view

About this dataset

Contact

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Created on

17 Apr 2023

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)