An insight into charities and giving in Australia The not-for-profit sector is vast and diverse covering everything from your local tennis club to some of the biggest universities in Australia. There are organisations existing on the smell of an oily rag and others with hundreds of millions of dollars. The Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) is the regulatory authority for charities and not-for-profit organisations within Australia. While there are 43,349 charities registered with the ACNC, there are more than 600,000 other not-for-profits without charitable status doing good for the community. We don’t have their data but they are out there and chances are you or someone you know is involved with or has benefitted from one of them. In fact, over 65% of Australians belong to one or more not-for-profits. The data used in our super infographic reflects what we do know based on ACNC data and the Queensland University of Technology’s Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (ACPNS) research.
43,349
charities registered in 2018
$150.4B in total income
39.2%
with DGR status