Methodology

DonationWatch processes, normalizes, and contextualizes official disclosure datasets published by national electoral authorities and oversight bodies. This page documents our data sources, ingestion rules, normalization criteria, and disclosure limitations for Ukraine.

Dataset Profile

Coverage period
2021 - 2026 (preliminary since 2021)
Compiled dataset volume
19,102 records (UAH 125,599,525.96) across 53 parties
Update cadence
Periodic
Latest recorded transaction
March 31, 2026
Dataset last processed
October 14, 2026
Per-donation threshold
≥ UAH 10.00
Party inclusion threshold
≥ UAH 100,000.00 cumulative
Data granularity
Individual transaction & donor records
Temporal resolution
Exact transaction date (YYYY-MM-DD)
Geographic origin
Country-level only
External registry identifiers
None published in source register

Data Source & Scope

The data used here is sourced from the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NAZK) via the PolitData portal. It includes all records identified as "monetary contributions" in the official reports.

Note on Data Scope: This total reflects direct financial transfers only. It does not include state funding provided to parliamentary parties or in-kind (non-monetary) contributions such as goods and services.

Due to the full-scale Russian invasion, mandatory political party reporting was suspended from early 2022 until late 2023 for security and logistical reasons. Following the adoption of Law 3337-IX, parties are now backfilling their reports. Data for 2022–2025 is still being updated as the NAZK processes these submissions.

Visit official source register (Національне агентство з питань запобігання корупції)

Coverage & Thresholds

The dataset covers published political contributions starting from 2020.

Records since 2021 are preliminary and subject to ongoing filings or retrospective updates by the source authority.

DonationWatch applies a minimum inclusion threshold of UAH 10.00 per transaction for this dataset.

This threshold is configured by us to avoid an excessive volume of small donations, and may be higher than the minimum amount exported by the upstream registry. Contributions with an absolute value below this amount are filtered out.

Party-level inclusion threshold: To focus on active political entities, only parties with at least UAH 100,000.00 in cumulative donations are included in the compiled dataset.

Refunds and net-zero filtering: Some registers record returned or refunded contributions as negative entries. Donors or recipient parties whose cumulative net contribution sum across the dataset is zero or negative are excluded.

Update Cadence

Datasets are periodically synchronized with the published upstream register.

Processing & Normalization

Raw disclosures undergo deterministic, rule-based normalization during ingestion to standardize entity names, consolidate organizational branches, and exclude non-qualifying entries:

  • Base string cleaning: All entity names undergo Unicode NFKC normalization, trimming of surrounding quotation marks and trailing commas, and collapsing of duplicate whitespace.
  • Donor key clustering & country rules: A canonical lookup key (stripping all non-alphanumeric characters and case-folding to uppercase) groups casing, spacing, and punctuation variants under a single canonical donor name. Where configured for a country's loader, additional rules standardize local legal entity suffixes, strip personal titles, or map known aliases—with every merged variant listed in the Aggregated Donors section below.
  • Receiver mapping & consolidation: Reported recipient names are mapped to canonical political party entities. Where registers report contributions to regional, local, or youth party units separately, they are consolidated into a single party total (listed in Aggregated Receivers below when applicable).

Important limitation on donor identity (homonyms vs. unmerged variants): Official party funding registers rarely publish unique personal identifiers (such as national identity numbers, tax IDs, or birth dates) for individual donors. Contribution totals on donor profile pages are aggregated strictly by normalized donor name. As a result, a single donor profile may combine contributions from multiple distinct individuals who share the exact same name (over-aggregation), while variations containing middle names or unmapped abbreviations may remain separate profiles (under-aggregation).

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Licence & Provenance

Our compiled, normalized dataset and visualizations are released under the CC BY 4.0 licence.

For researchers, journalists, and data scientists, the complete normalized dataset for Ukraine can be downloaded via our Download bulk dataset (CSV / JSON), and the exact ingestion and normalization rules can be audited in our Inspect country loader source code (GitHub).

Data Version & Timestamps

Dataset last processed: October 14, 2026.

Latest recorded transaction in dataset: March 31, 2026.

The processing timestamp indicates when our pipeline last synchronized and compiled data from the official register, whereas the latest transaction date reflects the most recent contribution date present in the published records.

Disclaimer

Compiled, not official: DonationWatch is an independent civic project and is not affiliated with any electoral authority, government body, or political party. Because records undergo normalization, entity deduplication, and filtering, this compiled dataset should not be cited as an official government registry.

As of October 14, 2026