Australian Charities Register Weekly Subset

ACNC Registered Charities is a weekly-updated subset of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission's national register. It contains information on charities registered since December 2012 to access tax concessions, though registration is voluntary. The dataset excludes information that charities have successfully applied to withhold from public view.

Use Cases

• Analyze charity registration trends and voluntary participation rates since the 2012 mandate
• Cross-reference this register subset with separate Annual Information Statement datasets for operational insights
• Identify charities that may have information withheld in future updates, as noted in the dataset's risk advisory

Strengths

• Data is updated weekly, ensuring regular refresh cycles
• Sourced directly from the national regulator, the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission
• Covers charities registered nationally since a specific date: 3 December 2012

Limitations

• Contains only a subset of the full Charity Register information, with more details available only via direct search
• Some registered charity information may be legally withheld and absent from this public dataset
• Risk of stale data points between weekly updates if charities request information withholding

Provenance

Source

Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC)

Collection Method

Subset extracted from the national Charity Register maintained by the regulator

Time Range

Records from 3 December 2012 onward

Freshness

Updated weekly

Geography

Australia