ACNC charity register (Apify Actor)

Organisation-only extract of the weekly ACNC Registered Charities file on data.gov.au. It GETs the fixed CKAN datastore_search endpoint for CSV resource 8fb32972-24e9-4c95-885e-7140be51be8a (package acnc-register), applies the optional filters, and writes an allowlisted dataset.

This is an organisation-only extract, not the original register. Street address lines (Address_Line_1, Address_Line_2, Address_Line_3) are removed. Responsible Person names are excluded. Country, Address_Type, Charity_Website, and Number_of_Responsible_Persons are not emitted.

Not endorsed by the ACNC or data.gov.au. Do not use their logos or trademarks. This Actor does not claim any endorsement beyond the disclaimer in the attribution line.

Data source (only): https://data.gov.au/data/api/3/action/datastore_search with resource id 8fb32972-24e9-4c95-885e-7140be51be8a.

There is no URL input. url, feedUrl, resourceId, and fields are ignored. A process environment override ACNC_DATASTORE_URL is accepted only when it is https://data.gov.au and the path is /data/api/3/action/datastore_search. Any other host or path is rejected. The resource id is always the CSV id above.

Output fields

Each dataset item is an allowlist. Address_Line_1, Address_Line_2, Address_Line_3, email, phone, and person-name columns are never emitted. Emails and obvious Australian phone numbers inside Charity_Legal_Name, Other_Organisation_Names, Operating_Countries, and Town_City are replaced with [redacted].

Field	Description
ABN	ABN as published
Charity_Legal_Name	Legal name
Other_Organisation_Names	Other organisation names
Registration_Date	As published (DD/MM/YYYY), or null
Date_Organisation_Established	As published (DD/MM/YYYY), or null
Financial_Year_End	As published (for example 30-Jun), or null
Charity_Size	Small, Medium, Large, or null
Purpose columns	Twelve flag columns, including the source ids Advancing_natual_environment and Purposes_beneficial_to_ther_general_public_and_other_analogous. Usually Y or null
Beneficiary columns	Beneficiary flags from Aboriginal_or_TSI through other_gender_identities. Usually Y or null
PBI, HPC	Public benevolent institution and health promotion charity flags
Operates_in_*, Operating_Countries	Operating geography
Town_City, State, Postcode	Coarse location only
source	https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/acnc-register
attribution	Exact line in Attribution below

The datastore is asked for these source columns only (fields is an explicit list, never all). Extra keys are dropped again before a row is pushed.

Inputs

Input	Notes
registeredFrom / registeredTo	Optional inclusive YYYY-MM-DD pair on Registration_Date. Empty or unparseable registration dates do not match a window.
days	Optional. Used only when the date pair is omitted. Window is Australia/Sydney today minus days through today. Maximum 366. If days is also omitted, there is no date window. Research did not set this number.
state	Optional. State column (ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA). Multiple = OR. Not the Operates_in_* flags.
size	Optional. Charity_Size Small, Medium, or Large. Multiple = OR.
purpose	Optional purpose column id. A row matches if any selected flag is Y. Multiple = OR.
beneficiary	Optional beneficiary column id. Any selected flag Y. Multiple = OR. Combined with purpose using AND.
name	Optional case-insensitive substring on legal name and other organisation names. Multiple = OR.
maxResults	Default 200, cap 2000.

Rows are sorted before the maxResults cut: most recently registered first. Registration_Date is parsed from DD/MM/YYYY (newest first). Rows with no parseable registration date sort last. Ties use Date_Organisation_Established (newest first), then ABN ascending. Datastore pages use _id asc only so offsets stay stable; that is not the dataset order. A lexical datastore sort on Registration_Date is not used, because the column is text.

A run pages with CKAN limit/offset until the resource ends or 140 datastore GETs (page size 500). truncated in the run log (not a dataset field) is true when the match count exceeds maxResults, or when that request cap or a repeated page stops the pull early. Each response body is capped at 8 MiB.

Try this

One state, one size, and one purpose, capped at 5. Those three are a server-side filter. Do not run with an empty input: that pages the whole register.

{
  "state": "TAS",
  "size": "Large",
  "purpose": "Advancing_Education",
  "maxResults": 5
}

Query that worked

Probed 3 Oct 2026 (PT). limit=0 returned field ids and total 66,399 with zero records. A later fields-limited page confirmed Registration_Date as DD/MM/YYYY, Charity_Size values such as Small and Large, and flags as Y or empty. filters JSON matches a column exactly, and a list is IN. No raw response was kept.

Privacy

Rows are organisation fields plus coarse location (Town_City, State, Postcode) and the attribution line. Street address lines are not requested, not stored, and not returned. Responsible Person names are not in this file and this Actor does not scrape ACNC HTML or charity profile pages. There is no email column and no phone column. If a free-text organisation field contains an email or an obvious phone number, it is replaced with [redacted].

Attribution

Attribution to: Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC), Australia, ACNC Registered Charities, sourced on 3 October 2026, https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/acnc-register. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/. Changes: organisation rows only; Address_Line_1, Address_Line_2 and Address_Line_3 removed; Responsible Person names are not included. The ACNC and data.gov.au do not endorse this product.

This Actor emits an organisation-only extract with street address lines removed and Responsible Person names excluded, not the original register. The ACNC and data.gov.au do not endorse this product.

Known limits

• data.gov.au CKAN resource 8fb32972-24e9-4c95-885e-7140be51be8a only. No ACNC HTML, no Responsible Person pages, no other host.
• Weekly extract. A later ACNC withhold can linger until the next file.
• No default registration window. An unfiltered run pages the register, then keeps the newest maxResults rows.
• Country and Address_Type are in the source file and Compliance allows them. This Actor omits them so the output stays on the organisation allowlist (town, state, postcode only).