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FECCA & ECCV — The Federation's Money Map
Two policy bodies, two single-funder dependencies. FECCA runs 86–100% federal revenue (latest audited FY2023-24: $508K deficit); ECCV's total revenue dropped 34% in FY2022-23 — grants fell $986K, “other income” fell $247K. They survived a $15K surplus only by cutting program expenses 79% and wages 21% (~6 FTE equivalent). Combined revenue ~$7.4M, combined federal contracts $0.77M — while AMES alone holds $1.85B of federal multicultural procurement (§2c). This page maps where each anchor's money comes from, where it goes, who works there, and what happens when a cycle ends.
Financial Trajectories — Single-Funder Dependence
Year-by-year revenue mix. Red is government grant revenue; blue is fees + donations. Both anchors run on a single revenue stream — FECCA on Commonwealth contracts (100% federal), ECCV on Victorian state grants (84–95% state). With ECCV's 77% wage-share spend (§1b), there's no buffer to absorb a cycle-end without staff cuts.
Audited FY2023-24: 86% federal ($3.31M of $3.83M); ACNC Dynamics FY2024-25: 100% federal. Mainly Department of Home Affairs (settlement) + Department of Infrastructure (Australian Mosaic). Ran a $508K deficit in FY2023-24.
Audited FY2022-23: grants $2.64M → $1.65M (−$986K), “other income” $971K → $724K. Total revenue $3.63M → $2.40M. Survived with a $15K surplus by cutting program-expenses 79% ($885K → $183K) + wages 21% (~6 FTE).
FECCA — National Peak
No FECCA AIS data ingested yet.
ECCV — Victoria State Council
Where the Money Goes — Spend & Staff
Latest ACNC AIS for each anchor, decomposed. The revenue stack shows where the money comes from; the spend stack shows where it ends up. Staff breakdown beneath. ECCV pays out 65–85% as wages and redistributes nothing — they're a service / advocacy body, not a re-granter.
FECCA is missing from every public ACNC AIS bulk dataset (2017–2023).
We pulled the FY2025 revenue figure from the ACNC Charity Portal Dynamics API, but that endpoint exposes only revenue / govt-share / donations — no expenses, staff, or KMP comp. Their own annual report PDFs publish narrative + program data, not audited financial statements.
Current visible: revenue $4.97M (100% govt). To get spend / staff / surplus history we'd need either the ACNC Charity Portal HTML scrape (anti-bot) or FY2024+ bulk data once published.
FECCA is missing from every public ACNC AIS bulk dataset (2017–2023).
We pulled the FY2025 revenue figure from the ACNC Charity Portal Dynamics API, but that endpoint exposes only revenue / govt-share / donations — no expenses, staff, or KMP comp. Their own annual report PDFs publish narrative + program data, not audited financial statements.
Current visible: revenue $4.97M (100% govt). To get spend / staff / surplus history we'd need either the ACNC Charity Portal HTML scrape (anti-bot) or FY2024+ bulk data once published.
FY2022-23: −$494,998 · FY2023-24: −$508,347. Both years disclosed in the Directors' Report.
Accumulated Surplus, FY2024 balance sheet (down from $1.78M). At ~$500K/yr burn rate, ~2.5 years of buffer at current trajectory.
ABN active since 01 Nov 1999, GST since 01 Jul 2000, but charity tax concession + ACNC registration both granted 08 Aug 2023.
FECCA — Eight Commonwealth Contracts
Total visible Commonwealth procurement: $0 across 0 contracts. Concentrated with Health & Aged Care + Australian Digital Health Agency. (No contracts found.)
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The AMES Asymmetry — Where Federal Multicultural Procurement Actually Goes
FECCA holds $0 of lifetime Commonwealth procurement (§2). For comparison, here are the largest federal contractors with "multicultural" or "ethnic" in their name. The settlement-services market is dominated by AMES — mostly the Adult Migrant English Program. The federation's peak bodies barely register in the federal procurement story.
No multicultural-sector austender data ingested.
Cross-System Power Profile
Where each anchor shows up across CivicGraph's 7 federal/national systems — procurement, justice funding, political donations, charity registry, foundations, ALMA evidence, ATO transparency. ECCV's state-grant flows (now in §6) don't yet feed this index, which is why the national signal is so thin.
No power-index row.
No power-index row.
The People — FECCA Board & Their Other Boards
0 directors on FECCA's board. Each row shows where else that person serves — this is the federation's shadow network: Islamic charities, disability advocacy, asylum support, regional arts.
No FECCA directors in dataset. Run ACNC scraper.
ECCV Board — Victoria's State Council
0 directors on ECCV's board. ACNC's public register withholds responsible-person data for ECCV, so this is sourced from eccv.org.au/about/board. Roles + portfolios where matched against the rest of CivicGraph.
Zero directors found for ECCV. Run the focused board sync.
node --env-file=.env scripts/sync-charity-board.mjs --abn=65071572705 --board-url=https://eccv.org.au/about/board
Annual Reports — What They Say About Themselves
Beneficiaries reported, programs delivered, evidence quality — extracted from FECCA + ECCV annual report PDFs. The scraper pulls directly from fecca.org.au and eccv.org.au.
No annual report rows in charity_impact_reports for either entity.
node --env-file=.env scripts/scrape-charity-annual-reports.mjs --abn=23684792947 --abn=65071572705
VIC State Grants — The Full Picture
The table below is the existing FECCA / ECCV / cluster cut — top-30 by amount.
No VIC grants ingested yet for FECCA / ECCV / cluster.
Cluster Siblings — Other VIC Ethnic Communities Councils Funded
Grants from VIC departments to the 20 sister organisations across the federation. ECCV is the Victoria peak; these are the regional + cause-specific councils.
(no sibling grants ingested yet)
What's Done · What's Next
- ✓ DONE3-year VIC grant time series — DPC + DFFH + DJSIR annual reports for FY2021-22, FY2022-23, FY2023-24 ingested via pdftotext + Claude Haiku / MiniMax fallback → 5,202 grants · $484M in
vic_grants_awarded. - ✓ DONEAnnual report LLM enrichment — funders mentioned, beneficiary counts, programs delivered, key quotes extracted from 63 charity reports. Visible in §5 cards.
- ✓ DONEFuzzy entity linker — recipient-name → gs_entities matching via 7-step Postgres normalizer (apostrophes / hyphens / Trustee-for / Inc-vs-Incorporated) plus pg_trgm similarity ≥ 0.85. Linked share 27% → 65.5%.
- ✓ DONEAMES asymmetry surfaced (§2c) — federal multicultural procurement is $1.85B at AMES vs $0.91M at FECCA, which the prior “federation's anchors” framing obscured.
- ✓ DONETopic-mix + year-over-year visualizations (§6) — show First Peoples / Treaty work receives ~10× more than Multicultural / Settlement through these state channels.
Open Follow-Ups (with signal/effort estimate)
- • Federal Home Affairs SETS / NMRP / AMEP grants — biggest blind spot; settlement-services federal funding stream we don't ingest at all.
- • Direct entity ingestion for top unlinked recipients — Self-Determination Fund Trust ($35M), Shrine of Remembrance ($16M), VIC LGAs (Cardinia/Bendigo/Macedon/Wangaratta/Shepparton/Nillumbik/Moreland), major Aboriginal trusts. Would push 65% → 80%+.
- • VIC Multicultural Commission — separate ~$15-30M/year community-grants stream not in DPC/DFFH/DJSIR.
- • NSW + QLD state ECCs — complete the federation picture;
DEPT_CONFIG+vic_grants_awarded.statecolumn ready for them. - • ABS CALD population by LGA — unlocks “funding-vs-need” geographic story.
What this means for you
- Ask for a 3-year cash-flow forecast. Two consecutive deficits + ~2.5 years of reserves means the next funding cycle decision is existential, not strategic.
- Audit the “Grants received in advance” line. The $1.6M (ECCV) and $2.4M (FECCA) carrying forward should be matched explicitly to deliverables and end-dates.
- Force succession planning. 38% staff turnover in one year + an Acting CEO + new Board Chair = key-person risk that's not in any single risk register.
- Map the funder concentration. 100% federal (FECCA) or 95% state (ECCV) means your grant is a marginal change to a single-funder dependency. Multi-funder coalitions reduce systemic fragility.
- Ask grantees to disclose their cycle-end exposure. Most don't volunteer this; the audited number is in the Directors' Report.
- Compare First Peoples vs Multicultural funding shape. Institutional vs fragmented grant patterns shape long-term sector capacity differently.
- FECCA's late ACNC registration (Aug 2023, after 24 years) is publicly verifiable on the ABR. Few orgs of this size have this gap.
- The AMES asymmetry — $1.85B federal procurement vs FECCA's $0.77M lifetime — reframes who actually delivers federal multicultural services.
- Director networks span Islamic charities, asylum-seeker advocacy, regional arts, disability advocacy — see §3 for the federation's shadow network.
- Identify the gaps. Multicultural / Settlement gets ~6× less than First Peoples / Treaty through these channels. Programs that bridge both are under-built.
- Track the funder pipeline. 2022 election commitments funded the FY2022-23 peak; the next election cycle resets it.
- Look for institutional grant patterns. Self-Determination Fund, Treaty Authority, Munarra are the institutional-build precedents — multicultural sector has no equivalent.
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