Federal and state grant funding across Australia — standardised, geocoded, and mapped against need. For the first time in one place.
Our first analysis maps $4.2B in NSW grant funding against the ABS SEIFA deprivation index at SA2 level — the first time this data has existed in one place.
Mapping $4.2B in grant funding against ABS disadvantage scores across 645 SA2 areas in NSW. The correlation between deprivation and underfunding is not what you'd hope for.
Read the full analysis →The most disadvantaged SA2 areas in NSW receive 60% less funding per capita than the least disadvantaged. This is the pattern ImpactLens was built to make visible. Source: ImpactLens analysis of GrantConnect + NSW agency data, 2021–24.
ImpactLens aggregates funding data from every tier of government and philanthropy, standardises it to a common schema, and maps it to ABS geographic units for deprivation analysis.
Federal grants from GrantConnect. NSW state programs scraped from agency pages. Philanthropic funding compiled manually. Every record standardised to a common schema with funder, recipient, amount, date, and location.
Recipient postcodes are mapped to ABS SA2 areas (~10,000 people each) using the ABS postcode correspondence file. SA2 is the right unit — large enough for meaningful analysis, small enough to be useful at a local level.
Every SA2 is matched to its SEIFA 2021 score — the ABS's composite measure of socioeconomic disadvantage. This makes visible what raw funding data never shows: whether money is flowing to areas of greatest need.
48,000+ records from federal, state, and philanthropic sources — searchable, filterable, and updated regularly. The UK has had 360Giving for a decade. This is Australia's equivalent.
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