The Record
Charitology’s published knowledge: references, annual reports, research archives and teaching. Every claim carries its source and its evidence label, and every page can be corrected in public.
Flagship references
The Charitology Encyclopedia
The field’s reference work: every core concept, method and debate, written in plain language with sources.
Global Charity Index
A depth layer on top of the open registries: what an organization does, where its work sits from relief to source, and where to check its filings.
Intervention Database
Every intervention with its depth, evidence grade, mechanism and, where a credible source publishes one, its cost per outcome.
Cause Atlas
A map of the cause areas and the problems they touch, from symptoms on the surface to the six sources underneath.
The Gap Map
Where charitable money goes, and a question for the Depth Census: how much reaches the sources of problems?
Annual publications
State of Charity Report
The yearly state of the charity system. Edition 0 sets the baseline: what we know, what we don’t, and what to measure first.
The Charitology 100
A future list of the hundred most promising places to give, across every lens. It won’t be published until its method survives public red-team review.
Open Problems Progress Report
Where every open problem stands, whether open, partly answered or solved, updated as results come in.
Research archives
Evidence Library
Every source cited anywhere on Charitology, in one bibliography, with the pages that cite it.
Failure Archive
Post-mortems of programs that didn’t work or did harm, written as lessons for the system, not blame.
Historical Case Studies
Philanthropy’s greatest successes and failures, read for what they teach about the system.
Disagreement Register
Where credible people disagree, what each side claims, and what would have to be true to settle it.
Country Profiles
Needs, institutions and giving options country by country, built from open data.
Open Datasets
Every Charitology dataset as open JSON, plus the public datasets the field builds on.
Thought and teaching
Journal of Charitology
Essays and research for the field, reviewed in public. Volume 0 opens with the manifesto.
Giving Traditions Library
What the world’s traditions teach about giving, read through the lens of symptoms and sources.
Principles of Charitology
The field’s open textbook, written chapter by chapter in public.
The Lexicon
The vocabulary of the field, defined in plain language.
Myth-Busting Series
Common beliefs about giving, checked against the evidence, with what to ask instead.
Methodology Handbook
Exactly how Charitology labels evidence, classifies depth, reviews pages and handles corrections.
Podcast and Newsletter
The field’s outward voice. The feed of new and updated pages is live. The show is designed.