---
title: "The Gap Map"
group: "Flagship references"
order: 5
summary: "Where charitable money goes, and a question for the Depth Census: how much reaches the sources of problems?"
status: live
statusNote: "Financial baseline charts and a local depth census with classification coverage, undo and validated backups. No global depth estimate is claimed."
conditions: ["symptom-trap", "story-bias", "parked-money"]
firstMilestone: "The first published estimate of giving by depth, from the Depth Census."
help:
  - "Check and update the recipient figures against the next Giving USA release."
  - "Work on the Depth Census, the missing axis."
  - "Map foundation flows from the WHOFUNDS grant graph."
related: ["/open-problems/the-depth-census/", "/record/state-of-charity/", "/record/cause-atlas/"]
---

Use the published U.S. financial baseline alongside a local depth-census workspace. The worksheet records actual activities, money and classification rationales, retains unclassified money and exports the sample for another contributor to inspect. A personal sample does not fill the global evidence gap.