AI-Based Charity Finder
(Community Platform)
Industry
Non-profit
Product Type
Data Engineering, BI Analytics
Duration
1 Year 6 Month
Year
2024-25
Project Overview
AI-Based Charity Finder Community Platform is a secure, invite-only communication system designed for charities, volunteers, and community organisations. BeData Solutions helped AI-Based Charity Finder build a unified data foundation and analytics layer that transforms fragmented charity datasets into meaningful, actionable insights—powering smarter communication, targeted outreach, and evidence-based decision-making across the community sector.
Business Challenges
- Fragmented Data Sources: Charity and community organisation data was scattered across multiple public authority and business rate databases, stored in inconsistent formats that made analysis difficult.
- Difficult Classification of Organisations: There was no reliable system for categorising charities into meaningful, hierarchical groups to support targeted communication and reporting.
- Limited Analytics & Insights: Without a clean, central warehouse, AI-Based Charity Finder struggled to answer key questions such as:
Which sectors are most active?
Where are gaps in community support?
Which groups should be prioritised?
- Scalability & Compliance: The platform needed to be secure, scalable, and fully aligned with data-protection standards suitable for sensitive, GDPR-aware communication.
Solutions
- Automated Data Research & Enhancement: We consolidated datasets from public authorities and business rates into a single, unified charity database.
• Applied NLP using Sentence Transformers to improve semantic understanding of organisation descriptions.
• Cleaned and enriched all records using ONSPD for accurate geographic and demographic classification.
• Ensured that all fields mapped directly to product workflows inside the AI-Based Charity Finder Community Platform.
• Implemented BigQuery as a scalable, secure warehouse for efficient querying of large charity datasets.
• Built custom data extraction tools to fetch harder-to-access datasets.
- Intelligent Categorisation Engine: We designed a hierarchical classification system that groups charities by sector, beneficiary group, activity, and location— enabling:
• Category-driven communication
• Advanced filtering
• Precision messaging to relevant community groups
- Visualisation & BI Reporting: We delivered Looker Studio dashboards that provide real-time insights into charity activity, category distribution, and engagement metrics. These dashboards support:
• Monitoring communication impact
• Understanding volunteer participation
• Assessing content relevance
• Identifying sector gaps and opportunities
Results & Outcome
The AI-Based Charity Finder Community Platform now benefits from:
100%
Unified and enriched charity dataset enabling accurate, category-driven communication.
2.5M+
Charity and community organisation data points processed through our enhanced pipeline.
65%
Reduction in time required for segmentation and communication planning.
100%
Improved operational efficiency through centralised data structures and natural-language-ready insights.
Seamless & Secure
Scalable BigQuery warehouse and GDPR-ready data processes ensure safe access for all users.
Tech Stack
The Engine Behind AI-Based Charity Finder
Looker Studio
Interactive dashboards and analytics
BigQuery
Large-scale data storage, processing, and querying
spaCy
Data processing and automation
Sentence Transformers
Data processing and automation
Python
Data processing and automation
Empowering organisations with data-driven insights
Contacts
Copyright © 2026 All Right Reserved Be Data Solutions Limited