Common Impact Data Standard

A standardized way to represent a social purpose organization’s (SPO) impact model, such as its theory of change, logic model or outcome chain. It represents impact as defined by the Impact Management Project norms (now housed at Impact Frontiers) and lets organizations exchange impact information regardless of the impact models they use.

An extension of CIDS that represents the reporting requirements of the Social Finance Fund.

Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL) files for checking Impact Data Capsules (RDF files containing impact report data) with validators such as Apache Jena or pySHACL. See the validation guide for how to use them.

Compliance tiers

• Basic tier
• Essential tier
• Full tier
• SFF
• All shapes (combined)

Supporting module shapes

• Activity
• iContact
• ISO 21972
• Organization
• Time

A standardized way to represent a social purpose organization’s organizational information, including financial measures (financial statements and key indicators) and descriptive measures (such as legal form, mission statement and team bios), for the organization and its programs and projects.

The ontology URIs /cids, /sff and /cfo use content negotiation: browsers get HTML documentation, and RDF tools get the current release in the format named in their Accept header. For an earlier release, use the file links in the tables above. Common Form is available as HTML, Turtle and OWL/XML only.

curl -L -H "Accept: text/turtle" https://ontology.commonapproach.org/cids