{
  "name": "charities",
  "description": "The Charity Index: organizations with depth classifications (hypotheses, not ratings).",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Cite “Charitology (charitology.org)”.",
  "generated": "2026-10-26",
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "against-malaria-foundation",
      "path": "/record/charity-index/#against-malaria-foundation",
      "name": "Against Malaria Foundation",
      "website": "https://www.againstmalaria.com/",
      "summary": "Funds the distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets to protect people from malaria.",
      "depth": 2,
      "causes": [
        "global-health"
      ],
      "interventions": [
        "insecticide-treated-nets"
      ],
      "note": "Depth hypothesis. Prevention: nets stop malaria for the people who sleep under them.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Against Malaria Foundation, official website",
          "url": "https://www.againstmalaria.com/",
          "publisher": "Against Malaria Foundation"
        }
      ],
      "review": "draft"
    },
    {
      "id": "center-for-effective-philanthropy",
      "path": "/record/charity-index/#center-for-effective-philanthropy",
      "name": "Center for Effective Philanthropy",
      "website": "https://cep.org/",
      "summary": "Researches foundation and nonprofit practice and gives funders feedback from the organizations they fund.",
      "depth": 3,
      "causes": [
        "charity-system"
      ],
      "interventions": [],
      "note": "Depth hypothesis. Structure: it gives funders feedback the system otherwise lacks.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Center for Effective Philanthropy, official website",
          "url": "https://cep.org/",
          "publisher": "Center for Effective Philanthropy"
        }
      ],
      "review": "draft"
    },
    {
      "id": "doctors-without-borders",
      "path": "/record/charity-index/#doctors-without-borders",
      "name": "Doctors Without Borders (MSF)",
      "website": "https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/",
      "summary": "Provides emergency medical humanitarian care in conflicts, epidemics and disasters.",
      "depth": 0,
      "causes": [
        "global-health",
        "peace"
      ],
      "interventions": [],
      "note": "Depth hypothesis. Relief: urgent care where people would otherwise go without.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Doctors Without Borders (MSF), official website",
          "url": "https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/",
          "publisher": "Doctors Without Borders (MSF)"
        }
      ],
      "review": "draft"
    },
    {
      "id": "feedback-labs",
      "path": "/record/charity-index/#feedback-labs",
      "name": "Feedback Labs",
      "website": "https://feedbacklabs.org/",
      "summary": "A network working to make listening to the people served the norm in aid and philanthropy.",
      "depth": 3,
      "causes": [
        "charity-system"
      ],
      "interventions": [],
      "note": "Depth hypothesis. Structure: it targets the charity system’s missing feedback loop.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Feedback Labs, official website",
          "url": "https://feedbacklabs.org/",
          "publisher": "Feedback Labs"
        }
      ],
      "review": "draft"
    },
    {
      "id": "feeding-america",
      "path": "/record/charity-index/#feeding-america",
      "name": "Feeding America",
      "website": "https://www.feedingamerica.org/",
      "summary": "A U.S. network of food banks that supplies food pantries and meal programs.",
      "depth": 0,
      "causes": [
        "hunger"
      ],
      "interventions": [
        "food-banks"
      ],
      "note": "Depth hypothesis. Relief: food for people who need it now.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Feeding America, official website",
          "url": "https://www.feedingamerica.org/",
          "publisher": "Feeding America"
        }
      ],
      "review": "draft"
    },
    {
      "id": "givedirectly",
      "path": "/record/charity-index/#givedirectly",
      "name": "GiveDirectly",
      "website": "https://www.givedirectly.org/",
      "summary": "Sends unconditional cash transfers directly to people living in poverty.",
      "depth": 1,
      "causes": [
        "extreme-poverty"
      ],
      "interventions": [
        "cash-transfers"
      ],
      "note": "Depth hypothesis. Repair: cash restores resources and choices to recipients. Evaluations also study effects on local economies.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "GiveDirectly, official website",
          "url": "https://www.givedirectly.org/",
          "publisher": "GiveDirectly"
        }
      ],
      "review": "draft"
    },
    {
      "id": "givewell",
      "path": "/record/charity-index/#givewell",
      "name": "GiveWell",
      "website": "https://www.givewell.org/",
      "summary": "Researches charities and publishes cost-effectiveness analyses to guide donations to highly cost-effective programs.",
      "depth": 3,
      "causes": [
        "charity-system",
        "global-health"
      ],
      "interventions": [],
      "note": "Depth hypothesis. Structure: evaluation infrastructure that changes where money in the system goes.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "GiveWell, official website",
          "url": "https://www.givewell.org/",
          "publisher": "GiveWell"
        }
      ],
      "review": "draft"
    },
    {
      "id": "habitat-for-humanity",
      "path": "/record/charity-index/#habitat-for-humanity",
      "name": "Habitat for Humanity",
      "website": "https://www.habitat.org/",
      "summary": "Builds and repairs homes with families who need decent, affordable housing.",
      "depth": 1,
      "causes": [
        "housing"
      ],
      "interventions": [],
      "note": "Depth hypothesis. Repair: homes built and restored. The organization also works on housing policy, which sits deeper.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Habitat for Humanity, official website",
          "url": "https://www.habitat.org/",
          "publisher": "Habitat for Humanity"
        }
      ],
      "review": "draft"
    },
    {
      "id": "helen-keller-intl",
      "path": "/record/charity-index/#helen-keller-intl",
      "name": "Helen Keller Intl",
      "website": "https://helenkellerintl.org/",
      "summary": "Works on health and nutrition, including vitamin A supplementation for young children.",
      "depth": 2,
      "causes": [
        "global-health"
      ],
      "interventions": [
        "vitamin-a-supplementation"
      ],
      "note": "Depth hypothesis. Prevention: supplementation prevents deficiency-related illness and death.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Helen Keller Intl, official website",
          "url": "https://helenkellerintl.org/",
          "publisher": "Helen Keller Intl"
        }
      ],
      "review": "draft"
    },
    {
      "id": "lead-exposure-elimination-project",
      "path": "/record/charity-index/#lead-exposure-elimination-project",
      "name": "Lead Exposure Elimination Project",
      "website": "https://leadelimination.org/",
      "summary": "Drives policies to eliminate lead poisoning, mainly through lead paint studies, support for government regulation and help for manufacturers switching to lead-free paint.",
      "depth": 3,
      "causes": [
        "global-health"
      ],
      "interventions": [
        "lead-exposure-elimination"
      ],
      "note": "Depth hypothesis. Structure: regulation changes the rules that produce exposure.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Lead Exposure Elimination Project, official website",
          "url": "https://leadelimination.org/",
          "publisher": "Lead Exposure Elimination Project"
        }
      ],
      "review": "draft"
    },
    {
      "id": "new-incentives",
      "path": "/record/charity-index/#new-incentives",
      "name": "New Incentives",
      "website": "https://www.newincentives.org/",
      "summary": "Gives small cash incentives to caregivers in northern Nigeria when children receive routine vaccinations.",
      "depth": 2,
      "causes": [
        "global-health"
      ],
      "interventions": [
        "vaccination-incentives"
      ],
      "note": "Depth hypothesis. Prevention: vaccines prevent disease; the incentives raise uptake.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "New Incentives, official website",
          "url": "https://www.newincentives.org/",
          "publisher": "New Incentives"
        }
      ],
      "review": "draft"
    },
    {
      "id": "malaria-consortium",
      "path": "/record/charity-index/#malaria-consortium",
      "name": "Malaria Consortium",
      "website": "https://www.malariaconsortium.org/",
      "summary": "Runs programs against malaria and other diseases, including seasonal malaria chemoprevention for young children.",
      "depth": 2,
      "causes": [
        "global-health"
      ],
      "interventions": [
        "seasonal-malaria-chemoprevention"
      ],
      "note": "Depth hypothesis. Prevention: preventive medicine during the high-transmission season.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Malaria Consortium, official website",
          "url": "https://www.malariaconsortium.org/",
          "publisher": "Malaria Consortium"
        }
      ],
      "review": "draft"
    },
    {
      "id": "our-world-in-data",
      "path": "/record/charity-index/#our-world-in-data",
      "name": "Our World in Data",
      "website": "https://ourworldindata.org/about",
      "summary": "Publishes research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems; produced by the nonprofit Global Change Data Lab with researchers at Oxford.",
      "depth": 4,
      "causes": [
        "science",
        "charity-system"
      ],
      "interventions": [],
      "note": "Depth hypothesis. Source (a hypothesis): it changes what people can see about the world’s problems, the vision source.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Our World in Data, official website",
          "url": "https://ourworldindata.org/about",
          "publisher": "Our World in Data"
        }
      ],
      "review": "draft"
    },
    {
      "id": "pratham",
      "path": "/record/charity-index/#pratham",
      "name": "Pratham",
      "website": "https://www.pratham.org/",
      "summary": "An Indian education organization whose Teaching at the Right Level approach groups children by learning level rather than grade.",
      "depth": 2,
      "causes": [
        "education"
      ],
      "interventions": [
        "teaching-at-the-right-level"
      ],
      "note": "Depth hypothesis. Prevention for the children taught; structural where governments adopt the method.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Pratham, official website",
          "url": "https://www.pratham.org/",
          "publisher": "Pratham"
        }
      ],
      "review": "draft"
    },
    {
      "id": "the-humane-league",
      "path": "/record/charity-index/#the-humane-league",
      "name": "The Humane League",
      "website": "https://thehumaneleague.org/",
      "summary": "Campaigns for corporate and policy changes that improve the treatment of farmed animals.",
      "depth": 3,
      "causes": [
        "animals"
      ],
      "interventions": [
        "corporate-animal-welfare-campaigns"
      ],
      "note": "Depth hypothesis. Structure: corporate and policy standards change what whole industries do.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "The Humane League, official website",
          "url": "https://thehumaneleague.org/",
          "publisher": "The Humane League"
        }
      ],
      "review": "draft"
    },
    {
      "id": "wikimedia-foundation",
      "path": "/record/charity-index/#wikimedia-foundation",
      "name": "Wikimedia Foundation",
      "website": "https://wikimediafoundation.org/",
      "summary": "The nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other free-knowledge projects.",
      "depth": 4,
      "causes": [
        "science",
        "education"
      ],
      "interventions": [],
      "note": "Depth hypothesis. Source (a hypothesis): open access to knowledge sits upstream of many problems, touching what Humanity’s Checklist calls gatekeepers and story.",
      "sources": [
        {
          "title": "Wikimedia Foundation, official website",
          "url": "https://wikimediafoundation.org/",
          "publisher": "Wikimedia Foundation"
        }
      ],
      "review": "draft"
    }
  ]
}