CivicGraph Intelligence
Market Intelligence Reports
Data-driven investigations into how money flows through society — grants, contracts, donations, and procurement. Start anywhere — each report links to the others.
Investigation Reading Order
- 1.$222 Billion — Where does Australia's charity money actually go?
- 2.Community Parity — Who benefits, who misses out, and why
- 3.Funding Equity — The most disadvantaged postcodes get 12.9% of charity income. The least get 46%.
- 4.Power Dynamics — Concentration, inequality, and who controls the levers
- 5.Community Power Playbook — The alternative: what communities are building
- 6.Social Enterprise in Australia — The invisible $21 billion sector and the register that doesn't exist
- 7.Foundation Intelligence — Who funds what, who watches, and what works
Who Funds What. Who Watches. What Works.
2,466 Australian foundations scored on transparency, need alignment, evidence-backed funding, and geographic reach. $11.8B in annual giving — but how much reaches communities that need it most? Trustee–grantee board overlaps revealed.
Donate. Lobby. Win. Pay No Tax.
The Triple Play: entities that donate to political parties, lobby government ministers, win billions in contracts, and pay minimal tax. Five public datasets cross-referenced by ABN to reveal the system as a whole.
Cross-System Power Concentration
82,967 entities scored across 7 public datasets. Who appears everywhere, who holds power across systems, who gets watched but never funded, and where the funding deserts are.
Tax Transparency: Contracts vs Tax
Who gets government contracts — and how much tax do they pay? ATO tax transparency data cross-referenced with 770K+ AusTender contracts by ABN. Billions in public money flowing to entities paying minimal tax.
Donate Today, Win Tomorrow.
Statistical correlation of political donation timing against government contract awards. 189,937 temporal matches reveal how quickly donors become contractors — 23,530 contracts awarded within 90 days of a donation.
Political Money
Who funds Australian politics — and what do they get in return? 312K donation records cross-referenced against 770K government contracts. $21.9B in tracked political donations. The donor-to-contractor pipeline, exposed.
Donate. Win Contracts. Repeat.
446 entities donate to political parties AND hold government contracts. $358M donated. $35.3B received. AEC donation records cross-referenced with AusTender contracts across 138,000 entities by ABN.
The Problem
Investigations into how Australia's funding system works — and who it works for.
Where Does Australia's $222 Billion Go?
An investigation into 359,678 charity financial records across 7 years, revealing the concentration of philanthropic power. 53,207 charities. ACNC AIS data 2017-2023.
Big Philanthropy & Community Parity
0.5% to First Nations. 12% to women & girls. 94% to the top 10%. How philanthropy concentrates power, who it leaves behind, and what the tax system enables.
Power Dynamics
Who controls Australia's philanthropy? HHI concentration, Gini inequality, and funding distribution analysis.
Philanthropy Gatekeepers
Which foundations are actually approachable, which keep capital opaque, and where theme and geography discipline concentrate philanthropic power.
Funding Equity: Who Gets What
12.9% of charity income reaches the most disadvantaged postcodes. 46% flows to the least disadvantaged. Political donations, government contracts, and SEIFA disadvantage data — connected for the first time.
The Access Gap
Small orgs spend 40% on admin. Large orgs spend 15%. The structural barriers to community funding.
Charity Sector Insights
The anatomy of 64,473 charities. Size pyramid, geography, purposes, beneficiaries, grant-makers, and 7-year financial trends.
Follow the Dollar
Trace funding flows from taxpayer to outcome across all domains. Interactive flow diagrams for every tracked program.
Case Studies
Specific domain investigations where the data tells a story.
Youth Justice: 5 Cities
$9.2B on youth justice across QLD, NSW, NT, SA, WA. Detention gets 2x community budgets. Cross-system scan linking school disadvantage, spending, and what works.
NDIS Market Power
10,335 active providers. Thin regional supply. Heavy payment concentration in remote Core markets. See where disability service provision is fragile and where a few providers capture the flow.
Child Protection
$4.1B+ in child protection, out-of-home care, and child safety funding mapped. Cross-referenced with youth justice, NDIS, and education — the pipeline made visible.
The Alternative
What community-led economic power looks like — and what's already working.
Community Power Playbook
Cooperatives, revolving funds, social enterprise, timebanking, and the models that are already building community economic sovereignty across Australia. 1,819 co-ops. 20,000 social enterprises. $21.3B in revenue.
Social Enterprise in Australia
20,000 businesses trading for purpose. $21 billion in revenue. 300,000 jobs. No legal structure. No central register. The landscape, the gaps, and why CivicGraph is building the directory that doesn't exist.
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Infrastructure
How the data platform works and how we measure quality.
Data Quality Scorecard
Live completeness metrics and cross-reference linkage rates across all datasets. Real-time transparency on what we know and what's missing.
Australia's Power Map
How open data can reshape who holds power. The concentration of economic and political influence, and the case for radical transparency.