Every youth justice organisation in Queensland
Who are ALL the youth justice organisations and programs in Queensland, what money reaches each of them, and will they claim their own record when it is handed to them?
Where this is up to · updated 2026-07-31
Gate 6 of 6 · Published, one layer of fourWhat it found
- The auspice model: registers cannot describe a body that does the work while another holds its ABN.
- Seven community justice groups hold their own ACTIVE ABN and Queensland pays somebody else. Palm Island's own ABN is active while its payee's is CANCELLED.
- Reading five ministerial answers corrected five of our own figures, including two we had published.
- Program amounts are stored ANNUAL but announced as MULTI-YEAR TOTALS. Kickstarter $12.5m/$50m, Staying on Track $56.25m/$225m.
The preregistered prediction
MISSED, reported not tuned. Preregistered 150-400 organisations; the sweep carried 560 name-strings forward, resolving to 203 entities. The rules were not changed to fit the band.
Registration
scope, inclusion rule and predictions locked 2026-07-31, before any analysis
Census sweep, 3 stages
classification, entity resolution against ACNC/ORIC/ABR, then ACNC financials. Deterministic code; no model produces a published number.
Contract layer PUBLISHED
$168,886,840 across 38 organisations, top 8 = 58.6%, named neutrally. Survived three rounds of adversarial checking.
The DYJVS split
33 organisations get $150,560,656 for service delivery; 143 get $30,676,070 for IT, catering and vehicles. Paying an invoice is not evidence of youth justice work.
The auspice model
a community justice group does the work, a sponsoring organisation often holds the ABN and the money. Queensland's own program guidelines have sections for both tiers.
Public record layer
249 tabled papers and 955 Questions on Notice, every one with a fetchable document. Searchable from the main search box.
The auspice worksheet
52 groups. 7 hold their OWN ACTIVE ABN while the state pays a third party. Nothing publishes until a human confirms, and a guard test enforces it.
Q8 Indigenous flags
4 of 429 weak flags grounded in QAIHC peak-body membership. The rest need a source, not a judgement.
MOUs from DYJVS
guideline 7.2.1 requires one between each sponsoring organisation and each group it sponsors. That document answers why money goes to a third party when the group holds its own ABN.
Claim doors
every census entry wired to the existing organisation-claim pipeline; the delivering body claims, not the host
Warm paths
JR network, anchor communities and peak bodies for first outreach; no mass cold email
This board is the honest state of the experiment. Nothing gets called finished until it survives the checks, and the gaps are listed because someone reading this might be able to close one.
Data sources
QLD contract disclosure + grants + QGIP · verified spending, measure_kind-scoped, never summed across kinds monthly
ACNC, ORIC and ABR registers · identity by name+ABN, never ABN alone periodic
Method, in plain words
The lab's first organising experiment: the census names every organisation, the claim door hands each one its own record, and the claim rate is the preregistered result. Non-claiming reads as capacity, not disinterest: a quarter of small community organisations have no paid staff.
Challenge this
Every figure has a receipt. If you can break one, we want to know, and the correction publishes here at the same volume. Challenge a figure.