---
title: "State of Charity Report"
group: "Annual publications"
order: 1
summary: "The yearly state of the charity system. Edition 0 sets the baseline: what we know, what we don’t, and what to measure first."
status: live
statusNote: "A complete Edition 0 baseline with financial definitions, project coverage, unknowns and a downloadable report."
conditions: ["measurement-gap", "missing-profession"]
firstMilestone: "Edition 1, with the first Depth Census estimate."
help:
  - "Propose a measure for next year’s report in an issue labeled state-of-charity."
  - "Source a figure the report is missing."
related: ["/record/gap-map/", "/diagnosis/", "/open-problems/"]
---

Edition 0 is a published baseline report. It separates source estimates from project counts, stocks from flows and measured quantities from unknowns. The downloadable edition includes source links and definitions. Later editions can compare changes only when dates, scopes and methods are compatible.