Instruments anyone can use

Tools

Free tools that put the method in your hands. They run in your browser: nothing you type is sent anywhere, and there are no accounts, ads or tracking.

20 in all · 20 live

For donors

Values Compass

Answer thirteen quick questions about what you care about and see which causes fit you, why they fit, and what the moral lenses you use least would show you.

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Portfolio Builder

Split a giving budget across causes when you aren’t sure which moral framework is right, compare two ways of doing it, and see how much they agree.

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Charity Lookup

Search the Charitology Charity Index by name, see where on the chain from symptom to source a charity’s work is thought to act, and open the public registries in one click.

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Browser Extension

Puts the Giver’s Checklist on donation pages and one click away everywhere else, with a lookup in the open charity registries. Collects nothing.

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Impact Calculator

See what a gift could achieve, as a range, for interventions with a published cost per outcome, and see which interventions have no reliable per-dollar estimate at all.

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Compare Tool

Put two or three interventions side by side on depth, evidence, durability, feedback, who steers and cost, and see exactly where they differ. There is no overall score, because the trade-offs are yours to weigh.

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Giving Dashboard

Keep a private log of your gifts and see where your giving goes, by cause and by depth, from relief for today to work on sources.

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Charitology Wrapped

Turn a year of logged gifts into a card you can share, showing where your giving acted and the kind of giver it makes you, with or without the dollar amounts.

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One-Click Split

Split one giving decision across several charities, with whole-dollar amounts that add up exactly and a step-by-step list of where to give.

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Legacy Planner

A private worksheet for leaving gifts to charity in your will, with a printable summary and sample wording to take to your estate attorney.

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Disaster Response Guide

What responders and researchers advise about giving after a disaster, a planner that splits one gift across relief, recovery and preparedness, and a calendar reminder to give again when the news has moved on.

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Gift Giving

Make a card for a donation given in someone’s name, with what the gift does, a personal message and the reasons you chose it. No amount required.

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For nonprofits and funders

For everyone