The Keyhole
Information asymmetry isn't a side-effect of the grant system. It is the system.
Application Form
The pool is not a secret.
It just isn't legible.
In Australia, every federal contract over $10,000 is published on AusTender. Every charity files an annual return to the ACNC. Every political donation above $16,300 appears on the AEC register. Every funded grant eventually lands in a state portal.
The data exists. It just isn't joined. It lives in 21 different systems that were never asked to speak to each other. Which means: if you are a community organisation applying for funding, you cannot see the pool. You can see the form.
140 organisations donate to both major parties
and hold government contracts.
I don't know what to call that yet. It is a shape that keeps repeating. The community organisations applying for the same $10,000 grants cannot see it. Most funders cannot see it. It is not hidden. It just requires joining four public registries together, which is not something anyone is paid to do.
Nodes are not numbers.
A node on the right-hand graph is a legal entity. A charity. A foundation. A department. Every one of them exists because somewhere, someone decided the work needed doing. When you click a node, you find the people who decided.
Storyteller voices appear with explicit consent through Empathy Ledger. Names and quotes are published under a consent register that can be revoked at any time. Read the manifesto for more.
Kristy Bloomfield
Mparntwe / Alice Springs
Our young people are just collateral in a bigger issue. It sits with adults, not with children.
Laquisha, 16
Mparntwe / Alice Springs
I don't like going to Darwin because I have no family there. Oppression.
Nigel, 14
Mparntwe / Alice Springs
When I'm talking to the judge, I feel like I'm panicking.
After Hito Steyerl