Data standard

Australian Giving Data Standard v0.1

A practical publishing shape for Australian giving data: source, licence, caveat and correction path travel with the record.

Purpose

A practical public schema for publishing searchable, downloadable and attributable Australian giving data.

schema_version: agdc-0.1

Principles

Public source first
Clear provenance on every dataset
No private workspace or CRM records
Correction and right-of-reply from day one
Machine-readable downloads and API responses

Required record metadata

dataset_key

record_id

title_or_name

source

source_url

licence

generated_at

caveats

correction_url

Record types

entity

Organisation, public body, foundation, public-record person or other named actor.

relationship

Grant, donation, contract, directorship, ownership or source-linked relationship between entities.

opportunity

Grant or foundation program with provider, amount, timing and source URL where available.

place

Geographic aggregate with funding, remoteness, disadvantage and community-control signals.

source

Dataset-level provenance, licence, collection method, cadence and caveats.

correction

Submitted correction or right-of-reply linked to a public claim or record.

Dataset fields

Entities

idgs_idcanonical_nameabnacnentity_typedescriptionwebsitestatepostcoderemotenessseifa_irsd_decilelga_namesectorsub_sectortagssource_datasetssource_countconfidenceis_community_controlledfirst_seenlast_seencreated_atupdated_at

Relationships

idsource_entity_idtarget_entity_idrelationship_typeamountcurrencyyearstart_dateend_datedatasetsource_record_idsource_urlconfidencefirst_seenlast_seencreated_at

Foundations

idacnc_abnnametypewebsitedescriptiontotal_giving_annualavg_grant_sizegrant_range_mingrant_range_maxthematic_focusgeographic_focustarget_recipientsendowment_sizegiving_ratiorevenue_sourcesparent_companyasx_codeopen_programslast_scraped_atprofile_confidencecreated_atupdated_at

Foundation Programs

idfoundation_idnameurldescriptionamount_minamount_maxdeadlinestatuscategorieseligibilityapplication_processscraped_atcreated_at

Grants

idnameproviderprogramdescriptionamount_minamount_maxcloses_aturlcategoriesgeographydiscovery_methodsourcecreated_atupdated_at

Places

postcodestateremotenessseifa_irsd_decilelocalityentity_countcommunity_controlled_counttotal_fundingcommunity_controlled_fundingrelationship_count

Political Donations

idfinancial_yeardonor_namedonor_abndonation_todonation_dateamountreturn_typereceipt_typecreated_at

Contracts

idocidrelease_idtitledescriptioncontract_valuecurrencyprocurement_methodcategorycontract_startcontract_enddate_publisheddate_modifiedbuyer_namebuyer_idsupplier_namesupplier_abnsupplier_idsupplier_acnc_matchsupplier_oric_matchsupplier_entity_typesource_urlcreated_atupdated_at

Social & Indigenous Enterprises

idnameabnacnicnwebsitedescriptionorg_typelegal_structuresectorstatecitypostcodegeographic_focuscertificationssource_primarytarget_beneficiariesbusiness_modelprofile_confidenceenriched_atcreated_atupdated_at

Data Catalog

table_namedomainowner_teamdescriptionsource_of_truthpii_levelsla_hoursfreshness_keyprovenance_fieldconfidence_fieldactivesnapshot_atrow_countfreshness_hoursprovenance_coverage_pctconfidence_coverage_pct