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 |
|---|---|
humanitarian-plan-cluster.json | One fixed Education cluster in Afghanistan’s 2024 humanitarian plan: exact reported USD requirements/funding, source strings, blank/zero distinctions and provenance. Not independently measured need, final spending or a charity rating. |
humanitarian-funding.json | Fixed 2025 OCHA FTS country-plan-year source rows, reported USD funding, plan requirements, missingness and exact-rational coverage. Not global charitable giving, independently measured need or a ranking. |
disaster-incidents.json | Complete fixed Disaster Desk edition: attributed reports, exact source versions, status scopes and explicit limitations. Not live or a worldwide needs census. |
disaster-incident-coverage.json | Fixed Disaster Desk coverage, omitted areas, source-access checks and explicit gaps. Missing coverage never means zero need. |
observations.json | Version-pinned exact source tokens, decimals, periods, definitions, source rights and explicit coverage. Draft source transcription; no ranking or impact estimate. |
observation-coverage.json | Explicit country-window, consolidated-group and selected humanitarian plan-cluster coverage, including source-null, source-empty and uncollected states, linked to exact observations and source rights in the same edition. |
publication-editions.json | Fixed public capture metadata and registry hash. The endpoint wrapper generated date is build metadata; each edition retains its own capture/source dates. No private proposal or subscriber data. |
research-ledger.json | Pinned public source versions, editorial corrections and recorded review declarations; no private local workspaces or automatic scientific qualification. |
research-progress.json | Explicit as-of research progress: present states, dated editorial corrections, recorded decisions and support limits; unknown historical baseline stays unknown. |
os-providers.json | Dated Charity OS provider dossiers, licenses, scope, limits and primary sources; draft research, not tested integrations. |
os-user-needs.json | Twenty primary public user discussions, observed needs, constraints and proposed OS requirements; a purposive draft research sample. |
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 | Sources in Charitology's bibliography, with the pages that cite them; wider literature coverage is unknown. |
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.