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.
Who gives
U.S. charitable giving by source, 2025. Total $617.2 billion.
What kind of organization receives
Recipient categories, 2025. Giving USA 2026 estimates for all nine recipient subsectors, classified by type of organization. Giving to individuals and unallocated giving are separate categories, so these rows do not sum to the headline total. These are not depth classifications.
Money waiting in donor-advised funds
See Parked Money, a debated condition.
The missing axis: depth
How much of this money acts at each depth? Charitology has not measured it. These bars stay empty until the Depth Census fills them.
Your depth census
Classify a documented set of activities. This is a local research sample, not an estimate of global charity. Amounts use one currency per file. Classifications are your hypotheses; evidence quality and impact are separate questions.