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Commissioner of Charities Annual Report

Number of Charities by Sector

Arts & Culture

Number of Charities by Sector

Data from Jan 2014 to Dec 2021

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:57 SGT

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

This dataset is published in the Commissioner of Charities Annual Report which contains the number of charities sorted annually by sector

Number of Charities By Sector

Data explorer

NumberofCharitiesbySector.csv (64 rows, 1.2 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Primary Sector Text	Value Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2020	Arts & Heritage	161
2020	Community	93
2020	Education	126
2020	Health	147
2020	Religious	1072
2020	Others	225
2020	Social & Welfare	427
2020	Sports	70
2021	Arts & Heritage	163
2021	Community	93

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Primary Sector	level_1	Text	-	Primary Sector of the charities
Value	value	Numeric	Number	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_bd72deef0a769a0177e5ab2b3ee031f0"
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. (2018). Number of Charities by Sector (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_bd72deef0a769a0177e5ab2b3ee031f0/view

About this dataset

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Created on

23 Nov 2018

Licence

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

Agency

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)