Tool · 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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About two minutes. Nothing you answer leaves your browser.

1. Where would you aim your giving?

People alive now People not yet born
Humans first All living things
My community Wherever it goes furthest
Proven, measurable results Long shots with huge upside
Relieve suffering today Change the systems behind it

2. How much does each statement sound like you?

The best gift reduces the most suffering, wherever it is.
Some things are owed to every person, and giving should secure them.
Giving should fix what is unfair, not just soften it.
I owe the most to the people and places close to me.
My faith or tradition tells me how and what to give.
The people of the future count as much as people today.
Animals and the living world matter in their own right.
The point is to help people become who they could be.

How it works

Part 1 asks where you would aim: at people alive now or the future, at humans or all life, near or far, at proven results or long shots, at relief or at sources. Part 2 asks how much each of eight moral statements sounds like you. Each statement stands for a framework: welfare, rights and duties, justice, care, faith and tradition, future generations, all life, and flourishing.

Your answers in part 2 become weights on those frameworks. Each framework ranks the cause areas differently, and your weights combine those rankings. Your answers in part 1 are compared with where each cause sits on the same five dimensions. A cause’s match score is about two-thirds lens and one-third fit.

What your other lenses see

The compass also shows the causes your least-used frameworks rank highly. It is an experiment in considering more than one moral lens, connected to the working hypothesis in the Single Lens.

What it isn’t

It isn’t a recommendation to give to any charity, and it isn’t a measurement. The cause positions and framework priorities are editorial judgments, published openly so you can check and challenge them. Your answers stay in your browser. A share link stores them in the link itself, not on any server.