Observed 9 September 2026. This bounded pass follows the latest forest review and the user's funding steering. It establishes funding for regulatory advocacy, a specific commission producing policy proposals, and a separately scoped privacy-research award. It does not establish donor authorship or approval of Australia's September 2026 exposure draft.
The most consequential bridge is McKinnon's commission of two identified reports, one of which expressly recommends considering a duty of care and the other of which transmits EU and UK transparency models. Mannifera supplies a quantified award for advocacy during the Online Safety Act review. The Internet Society Foundation award has a different, documented children's-privacy research purpose.
| Relationship | Amount and time | Evidentiary state |
|---|---|---|
| Mannifera → Reset Australia | $40,000; labelled a 2024 Signature Grant | Grantor names recipient and purpose. Currency code is not printed; Australian context, not converted to USD. No bank receipt or exact award/payment date acquired. |
| Internet Society Foundation → Reset Tech Australia | US$219,000; 8 January 2024–7 July 2025 | Project award record. A separate 2024 return names Reset Tech Australia Limited for US$87,600 monetary support; these figures must not be added as independent awards. |
| McKinnon → two Reset reports | Commissioned in 2023 and 2024; fee undisclosed | Funder identifies both commissions. Recipient's first report also describes the early-2023 approach. No signed contract or payment amount acquired. |
Recipient disclosure and entity boundaries
Reset's 2024 transparency report, printed/PDF page 37, lists Reset.Tech (US), Internet Society Foundation, Susan McKinnon Foundation, Boundless Foundation, “Manniferra,” an unnamed private donor and NSW Government. The NSW footnote limits the acknowledgment to support attending the social-media summit. No amounts or rights appear there. Page 6 describes duty-of-care advocacy; page 38 identifies future work on children's privacy and the duty. These separate passages do not allocate any donor's money to each activity. The report says annual accounts were being prepared; that historical statement does not establish their present availability. [Reset 2024 transparency report](http[local research file] inspected PDF pp2, 6, 37–38 and relevant report-title references.
The Mannifera identification is supported by the donor explicitly naming Reset, rather than merely correcting a similar spelling. Internet Society Foundation's return gives the legal recipient name. The other recipient-only names remain at their disclosed scope: no exact Boundless legal entity, unnamed donor identity, Reset US award amount or NSW reimbursement amount is resolved by this pass. The closed ACNC route was not reopened.
Mannifera: a quantified advocacy grant and an identifiable pooled-funding route
Under its own Reset Australia heading, Mannifera records a $40,000 2024 Signature Grant from its dis/misinformation round. Its purpose is to bring Reset's research and advocacy on transparency mechanisms into policy development and the social-media committee inquiry. The passage specifically situates the work around the misinformation bill and Online Safety Act review. That supports an advocacy-funding edge; it does not identify an earmark for particular duty-of-care clauses. The preceding Australian Progress section also mentions Reset under a different heading; that ambiguous passage is not counted as a second Reset award. [Mannifera partner record](http[local research file] Reset heading and adjacent section, rendered lines 213–235.
Mannifera's FY24 account says a national dis/misinformation call opened in February 2024. Its “so far” recipient list does not include Reset. Consequently, the two pages do not fix Reset's award date within FY2023/24 or contradict the later listing's calendar-2024 label. [FY24 account](http[local research file] body paragraphs on the call and listed recipients, lines 5–15.
The undated membership guide describes a formal partnership involving Philanthropy Australia, Australian Communities Foundation (ACF) and Reichstein Foundation, and a funds path through an ACF sub-fund. Members participate in collective funding decisions at annual Musters; a member Taskforce and Executive Officer oversee activities. Signature grants support core operations advancing advocacy projects. These are published programme arrangements, not the signed Reset award terms or evidence that every member approved that award. No individual donor veto, Reset board-appointment right, publication clearance or parliamentary drafting power is specified in the inspected passages. [Membership guide](http[local research file] physical PDF pp6–8, especially grant types, governance/legal structure and member participation. The URL's 2024/04 path is not treated as a verified publication date.
The administering organisation independently says Mannifera members give together through ACF. This corroborates the pooled route, without identifying the trustee/payor on Reset's particular contract. [ACF Annual Report 2023/24](http[local research file] physical PDF p12, printed pp20–21. The report's text search did not locate Reset; that is a search limitation, not proof ACF made no payment.
Internet Society Foundation: restricted research purpose, separate annual support figure
The Foundation's phase-two project record names Reset Tech Australia and US$219,000 for 8 January 2024–7 July 2025. It examines young people's privacy expectations in educational technology and targeting, and how policymakers and regulators can implement those expectations. Its international scope includes Australia. The record establishes a funded research purpose, not a commission of Australia's duty-of-care legislation; anticipated methods and results are not evidence of completed outputs. [Phase-two grant record](http[local research file] project dates, amount and research summary, rendered lines 87–141.
The 2024 Form 990 identifies Internet Society Foundation, EIN 82-3285688. Schedule A names Reset Tech Australia Limited with US$87,600 monetary support. Schedule F has an unnamed same-amount research row; matching does not establish its recipient. Its supplement specifies accrual accounting. No recipient cash receipt or instalment reconciliation is established. Reported procedures require proposal approval under delegated authority and a board-approved budget, signed agreements, monitoring and completion reports. These are general institutional procedures, not acquired Reset-specific terms. [2024 Form 990](http[local research file] PDF p1; pp23–24 Schedule A table; p39 Schedule F row; p42 monitoring/accounting supplement. Inspected text supports these statements; image rendering failed, so no visual table verification is claimed.
McKinnon: a funded route into concrete regulatory proposals
McKinnon says it commissioned Reset in 2023 and 2024 to produce Functioning or Failing? and Achieving Digital Platform Public Transparency in Australia. This identifies particular research commissions rather than general organisational support. It discloses no fee, contractual clearance, intellectual-property allocation or termination provision. [McKinnon account](http[local research file] Reset section, rendered lines 61–66.
The first report is dated May 2024. Its introduction says Susan McKinnon Foundation approached Reset early in 2023 to design a project testing the misinformation code; Reset describes designing the monitoring and experiments using methods from its global network. Its recommendations include considering a duty of care for misinformation/disinformation, EU-style risk assessments and researcher access. This establishes an initiated research commission and an output containing policy proposals. It does not establish that the commissioner required those conclusions or that government adopted them. [Functioning or Failing?](http[local research file] PDF pp1–5, especially recommendations p3 and introduction p5. Research validity and the body experiments were not independently audited here.
The second original is dated June 2024. Its summary explicitly examines the EU Digital Services Act and UK Online Safety Act, proposing Australian risk assessments, prescribed annual transparency reports, independent audits, data portals and researcher access. The proposed application spans online safety and misinformation frameworks. This is an identified commissioned model-transmission artifact, not just ideological similarity. [Achieving Digital Platform Public Transparency in Australia](http[local research file] PDF pp1–3. A public GET succeeded and those pages were extracted from the original 31-page PDF in memory. The funding caption's logo did not appear in text extraction; the commissioning attribution rests on McKinnon's named account, not an unread logo.
McKinnon's current privacy policy identifies The Susan McKinnon Charitable Foundation, ABN 12 653 756 597, together with subsidiaries/affiliates, and also uses the company's “Limited” legal name. The policy is dated September 2025. It identifies a legal entity within the present McKinnon group; it does not determine which entity signed the earlier commissions. [Privacy policy](http[local research file] opening application/definition paragraphs, rendered lines 52–65. The precise historic contracting party remains open.
Integration limit and next obtainable records
Safe financial verbs are: Mannifera records a 2024 grant for transparency advocacy; Internet Society Foundation lists a phase-two research award and reports annual monetary support; McKinnon says it commissioned two identified reports; Reset describes the commissioning approach and publishes recommendations. None should be replaced by “paid for the bill,” “dictated the duty” or “approved the final clauses.” The strongest supported mechanism is financing research and advocacy that formulates and circulates regulatory models. This pass does not isolate that funding's causal effect on government choices.
The narrow next records are the Mannifera/ACF grant letter and disbursement record identifying Reset's legal counterparty and restrictions; the Foundation's executed phase-two agreement, amendments and instalment reconciliation; and McKinnon's 2023/24 scopes of work, executed contracts and publication-clearance provisions. Likely custodians are the named grantor/administrator and Reset. Their absence here leaves payment timing and substantive approval rights unresolved, not presumed absent. No request or outreach has been made.
Acquisition scope: public grantor/recipient pages and scoped PDF readings only, observed 9 September 2026. Web image rendering returned cache misses for the Foundation return and Mannifera guide. The second McKinnon report exceeded the web reader's size limit; one ordinary public GET supplied its opening pages. No originals are retained in this one-file lane and no original-file hashes are claimed. No ACNC, account, paid-access, Butterfield or wider donor branch was opened. This is the financial-instrument breakpoint for the next whole-case reassessment.