Charitology’s content collections and shared datasets are available as structured data under CC BY 4.0. The endpoints are static JSON files and need no application key. The hosting provider’s normal limits still apply. Full documentation is on the Public API page.
Charitology datasets
| Dataset | What it holds |
|---|---|
conditions.json | The fifteen conditions of the charity system (the Diagnosis). |
open-problems.json | The Open Problems of Charitology, with status. |
programs.json | Every program, with status and the conditions it treats. |
tools.json | Every tool, with status. |
record.json | Every information base in the Record. |
interventions.json | The Intervention Database: depth, evidence grade, mechanism, cost data. |
charities.json | The Charity Index: organizations with depth classifications (hypotheses, not ratings). |
encyclopedia.json | Encyclopedia entries. |
cases.json | Historical case studies, including failures. |
myths.json | The Myth-Busting Series. |
disagreements.json | The Disagreement Register. |
traditions.json | The Giving Traditions Library. |
principles.json | Principles of Charitology, chapter by chapter. |
forecasts.json | Forecast questions, forecasts and outcomes. |
journal.json | Journal entries with their review status. |
lexicon.json | The Lexicon of terms. |
causes.json | Cause areas with their editorial positions on five dimensions. |
frameworks.json | Moral frameworks with their editorial cause priorities. |
depth.json | The five-level depth scale, from relief to source. |
checklist.json | The Giver’s Checklist. |
figures.json | Headline figures with their sources. |
source-map.json | Which sources Humanity’s Checklist links to which world problems. |
roadmap.json | All 66 original brief items and their implementation scope. |
nonprofit-tools.json | External tools for charities with costs, limits and official sources. |
nonprofit-benefits.json | Benefits for charities with eligibility and official application links. |
countries.json | Dated World Bank country/economy indicators, definitions, source metadata and explicit missing data. |
podcast.json | Computer-narrated textbook episodes with audio, transcripts, duration and file size. |
newsletter.json | Published Charitology Letter issues. |
sources.json | Every source cited on the site, with the pages that cite it. |
Open data the field builds on
- Humanity’s Checklist · Six root causes that sit upstream of every world problem, each with one beachhead project. Charitology’s source level comes from here.
- Systemic Altruism · A beta tracker of charities working on structural change, with inspectable judgments, uncertainty ranges and a searchable IRS registry.
- Charity Impact Media · Sourced Form 990 spending breakdowns for about 25,000 U.S. charities with $10 million or more in revenue. No ratings.
- WHOFUNDS · The open grant graph of U.S. private foundations, built from Form 990-PF filings, with its own miss rate on the page.
- ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer · Tax filings for U.S. tax-exempt organizations.
- WHOFUNDS search · Which private foundations fund an organization.
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search · Official IRS record of whether an organization can receive tax-deductible gifts.
- IRS Business Master File · The IRS list of every registered U.S. tax-exempt organization.
- GivingTuesday 990 Data Lake · Machine-readable Form 990 e-file data.
- GiveWell · Cost-effectiveness research on global health and poverty programs.
- Giving Green · Research on climate giving, including policy and systemic work.
- Animal Charity Evaluators · Research on charities that help animals.
- Our World in Data · Open data and research on the world’s largest problems.