Sources and licences

Know where every dataset came from.

This is the public provenance table: source owner, source URL, collection method, cadence, licence posture and caveats.

Dataset	Source owner	Collection	Cadence	Licence	Caveats
Entities https://www.civicgraph.au/giving/sources	Source agencies and CivicGraph resolution layer	Public registers, public datasets, source crawling and deterministic entity resolution	Daily to weekly by source	Mixed public-source licences. Check source record before reuse.	+Entity resolution is probabilistic when no ABN or source identifier is available. +Public-record individual names appear only where a source dataset already publishes them.
Relationships https://www.civicgraph.au/giving/sources	Source agencies and CivicGraph resolution layer	Cross-source joins, ABN matching and public-source graph construction	Daily to weekly by source	Mixed public-source licences. Check source record before reuse.	+Edges inherit the quality of their source dataset and matching method. +Absence of an edge does not prove absence of a relationship.
Foundations https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/charities	ACNC, foundation publishers and CivicGraph profiling layer	Public register import plus public website/profile enrichment	Weekly crawl, manual correction queue	Mixed public-source licences. Check foundation source page before reuse.	+Giving values are annual estimates where a foundation does not publish a clean current figure. +Foundation openness is a public-signal measure, not a judgement of private grantmaking quality.
Foundation Programs https://www.civicgraph.au/foundations	Foundation publishers and CivicGraph extraction layer	Public website crawl and program extraction	Daily to weekly during active crawl windows	Publisher website terms and CivicGraph compiled metadata.	+Open status can lag publisher changes. +Program eligibility summaries are not a substitute for the publisher page.
Grants https://www.civicgraph.au/grants	Grant publishers and CivicGraph extraction layer	Public source crawl, normalisation and deduplication	Daily to weekly by source	Mixed source licences. Check the source URL before reuse.	+Deadlines and eligibility can change after capture. +Use publisher URLs as the decision record for applications.
Places https://www.civicgraph.au/places	ABS-style reference sources, public funder datasets and CivicGraph aggregation layer	Public source aggregation by postcode	Weekly after graph refresh	Mixed public-source licences. Geographic references include public ABS-style reference data.	+Postcode is a coarse proxy for community and service geography. +Funding totals depend on how well source records can be geocoded and linked.
Political Donations https://www.aec.gov.au/parties_and_representatives/financial_disclosure/	Australian Electoral Commission	Public disclosure import and normalisation	Annual disclosure cycle, refreshed after releases	AEC public disclosure data. Check AEC terms before reuse.	+Donation records reflect disclosure rules and thresholds for the period. +Donor names are public-record names from AEC disclosures and are not enriched beyond the source record.
Contracts https://www.tenders.gov.au/	Australian Government AusTender	Public procurement data import and normalisation	Daily to weekly	AusTender public data terms. Check source URL before reuse.	+Contract values can include amendments and may not equal cash paid in a single year. +Supplier matching to charities or entities depends on ABN availability and source quality.
Social & Indigenous Enterprises https://www.civicgraph.au/social-enterprises	Source registries, certifiers, state networks and CivicGraph federation layer	Public registry and directory federation, ABN matching and deduplication	Source-dependent, re-crawled during active windows	Mixed registry and public-source licences. Some source registries restrict reuse of authored descriptions — check source_primary before republishing.	+Supply Nation and ORIC records are Indigenous businesses and corporations — not every record is a social enterprise in the certified sense. Read source_primary before classifying. +Certification and membership marks belong to their issuing bodies. CivicGraph aggregates marks and does not verify enterprises itself. +Records without an ABN cannot yet be joined to contract or grant evidence.
Data Catalog https://www.civicgraph.au/api/data/catalog	CivicGraph	Automated table snapshots and maintained dataset metadata	Nightly	CivicGraph compiled metadata, CC BY 4.0 unless source rows say otherwise.	+Snapshot counts can lag live table counts. +Quality metrics are diagnostics and should be read with dataset caveats.