Every island is drawn so its area is exactly proportional to annual dollars (1 px² ≈ $2.4M/yr at full size — the graduated key by the south shore nests the $240M, $1B and $10B squares for sizing by eye; the $100B square is, near enough, the Human Services platform at $99.5B). The federal west and the private-giving east share one scale — the honest headline is that the whole of American philanthropy (~$617B, 2025) is about two-fifths the size of the federal discretionary total drawn here (~$1.56T — $1.33T as the western continent, the remaining $229B as the slate west halves of the four federally co-funded recipient provinces). Cities are organizations (marker ∝ √grants); recipient sectors are built-platform provinces on the same exact scale — hover the cartouche’s register row for the three-register ledger, and click a province to open its sector in the Giving Explorer. Hold Shift and drag anywhere to stretch a measuring rod — the readout gives the $/yr a square of that width would hold; click any mark to pin its card (✕ or Esc dismisses); hover the great region names for each coast's one-line ledger. The altitude chip at the map's south-west corner says which layer of the chart is under the glass — Survey, Pilot's Chart, Ashore, or (past 5×) Afoot, the village layer. (One sea remains: Foundation Basin — see Recipient provinces below.)

Some islands are surveyed. Where a province’s major uses of funds are published and verifiable, they are drawn as tracts — enclosed fields whose area is proportional to their dollars on exactly the same scale as the coastline, so a field that looks like two-thirds of its island is two-thirds of its island. Enclosure means “we know what this money does”; land left unenclosed is rough ground, the part that is not itemized here. Nine provinces carry a survey: Defense (four fields — Operation & Maintenance, Procurement, Military Personnel, RDT&E), Veterans, Housing, Justice, Health & Social Services, Transportation, Science, General Government. Hover any field for its figure and its share.

A tract set is a register, not a slicing-up of the island’s own headline number: it states its own total and basis, and the fields are shares of that laid on the island’s area. This matters where the two ledgers differ — Defense is drawn at $851B of FY2024 outlays while its four titles are the $814.4B of budget authority Congress voted, and no source publishes defense outlays by title; Justice’s $35.4B is a cap-scored residual while its three departments are enacted accounts. Where that gap exists the field tooltips say so. Two provinces are deliberately unsurveyed despite having verified parts: Energy & Water, whose accounts no source publishes on the cap-scored basis its island is drawn on, and Homeland Security, whose largest component falls under the legibility floor — the grouping that would clear it is arithmetic, not a published line.

Federal non-defense provinces are FY2024 enacted budget authority (CBO status report; CRS agency appropriations); Defense is FY2024 outlays (OMB Historical Tables) — a mixed basis, noted per-island in tooltips. The old unitemized “Interior” remainder ($203.4B) is fully dissolved (round 17) into six named provinces verified against CBO’s cap-scoring tables — Homeland Security, Health & Social Services, Justice/Commerce/Courts, Agriculture & Food, Energy & Water Works, General Government. One ledger note: those six sum to $209.1B, $5.7B more than the remainder they replace, because HUD/DOT are drawn at gross enacted values while the $703.7B statutory base credits ~$5.7B of offsets and rescissions (chiefly FHA/Ginnie Mae receipts) back against their bill. Private giving is Giving USA 2026 (2025 data): individuals $394.2B, foundations $117.15B, bequests $62.19B, corporations $43.67B — the same vintage as the modeled flow lanes, so each source’s outbound lanes sum to its island. DAF figures from the DAF Research Collaborative’s Annual DAF Report 2025 (FY2024 990s, 1,485 sponsors — successor to the NPT report: grants $64.9B; assets $326.5B held) — the archipelago is pass-through — since round 26 its isles are drawn as reef-ringed lagoons (water inside the reef: the money only pauses here), every isle restated to its 2024-vintage grants so the six sum exactly to the $64.9B FY2024 ledger. Organization figures are 990s/annual reports as verified in the ecosystem dataset.

The Foundations coast is organized by what each funder ships — Gates, CZI and Rockefeller at Health Port (west, shipping across to the Health province), Walton, Hewlett, Simons and Schmidt at Education Quay (northwest), Ford, MacArthur and the evidence-policy funders at Reform Pier (north), Lilly alone on the coast facing the Religion province it dominates, Ballmer facing Human Services. The sector lanes depart from their ports; the endowment range rises inland. Placement is organizational, not a data claim — multi-program funders sit by their largest program, and every figure stays in the tooltips. On Individuals, MacKenzie Scott’s Yield Giving keep stands at the DAF gateway (she gives through donor-advised funds and direct gifts, not a foundation — hover her keep to light the lane), her banner flies over NPT in the archipelago, and the donor-information institutions (Candid, Charity Navigator, BBB Wise Giving) gather in an evaluators’ quarter inland. Geography follows the money throughout: recipient provinces ride beside their dominant funder, each co-funded province’s slate half faces west toward the federal continent, and the effective-giving isles run in the straits — pledge orgs off Individuals, Coefficient Giving off the Foundations whose money it directs, GiveWell downstream among the delivery harbors it recommends.

Cities are annual grantmaking (flow); mountains are money held (stock, height ∝ √assets — foundation endowments 990-PF-verified) — which is why the Lilly mountain ($106B held) towers over a modest $2.3B/yr city while the Gates city out-grants everyone. Since round 44 two pledged personal fortunes rise on Individuals itself, on stated bases their tooltips spell out: Buffett’s ($139B — computed from Berkshire’s own published post-gift share counts × a dated close, every share committed to the four family foundations by 2034) is now the tallest pile on the whole map, and MacKenzie Scott’s ($32B — an attributed Forbes estimate, unlike the filing-derived peaks, disclosed as such) stands above her Yield Giving keep: “until the safe is empty.” A third special basis arrived in round 74: the OpenAI Foundation’s paper peak on Foundations (≈$195B — a 26% stake in OpenAI Group at the April 2026 valuation, neither liquid nor filed), drawn in dashed outline so the height carries the claim and the dashes carry the doubt. The all-DAF range on the archipelago ($326.5B in accounts) stands taller than any foundation peak. Public–private collaboration: land is tinted by sovereignty (slate = public money, warm = private), and the co-funded multilaterals in International Waters are drawn as split isles at their actual funding mix — Global Fund ~95% governments / 5% private, Gavi ~85/15 (2021–25 replenishment) — both world-funded, so outside the US land sum, with the Gates Foundation the largest private donor to each. Beside them since round 43 stands the UN Agencies platform — WFP, UNICEF and UNHCR drawn as one built isle, $22.4B spent in 2024 (audited financial statements), entirely voluntarily funded and, until 2025, anchored by the US as the largest funder of each; it is drawn solid public because the government-vs-private mix isn’t primary-verified (UNICEF’s national committees raise substantial private gifts — the tooltip discloses). WHO keeps its lighthouse: a normative agency, not a delivery platform. The collaboration also shows in the recipient provinces’ two-tone wash: the NIH keep ($47.3B, FY2024) stands on the Health province’s own slate half, where the foundations’ $26B lane arrives from across the water.

The recipient sectors are drawn as land, not seas — a sea’s area carries no sense of scale, and land does. Every province is area-exact on the one true scale, sized by what it receives: private giving (Giving USA 2026, 2025 data) plus, for the four federally co-funded sectors (Education, Health, International Affairs, Environment), the federal FY2024 budget. Since round 25 those federal dollars are drawn once: the old counterpart islands on the federal continent are gone (they double-drew $228.6B), and the slate west half of each province is now the federal side itself — carrying its agency features (the NIH keep with NCI and NIAID beside it, Pell Grants, EPA and the Park Service, PEPFAR) and the USAID ruins, from which the sunken −$40B lane departs. Recipient land wears its own hue pair, kin to the source tints but shifted: a cooler green for the public share, a warmer gold for the private. Where both sovereignties fund a sector the province splits in two tones at the actual mix (Education ~46% public, Health ~47%, International ~63%, Environment ~61%) — the public–private partnership drawn in the land itself, the same grammar as the co-funded multilateral isles; all-private sectors (Religion, Human Services, Public-Society Benefit, Arts) wear the gold alone. Since round 26 the recipient landmasses are drawn as built platforms: surveyed, faceted coastlines with double-struck sea-walls, pilings and a deck grid riding over the sovereignty wash, the condo property line hardened into a riveted expansion joint, and the largest single recipients as faceted micro-platforms with bollarded corners. Built land means received & spent — an overlapping measure (each dollar here already sits on a source landmass), which is why drawing both ends of every flow is honest — one map, source and destination. Foundation Basin stays water — since round 58 a true cove carved into the Foundations continent’s own east shore, since it is the recipient side of that same continent and land would double-draw it; the three inbound gift lanes sail into the cove’s mouth, past Bloomberg’s keep on the north slope and the forming OpenAI Foundation on the south lip. State & local money remains off-chart. The university fleet moors in the Ivy Strait — the sound off the province’s south-east gold shore (Penn, MIT and USC ride the teaching-hospital channel further south) — each isle a condominium split at its real mix of private gifts (FY2025 reports) and federal R&D (NSF HERD FY2024), Johns Hopkins the slate giant of the fleet at three-quarters public; the aid fleet left its anchors in round 45 — the US-domiciled delivery orgs stand ashore in International Affairs’ delivery quarter, and the foreign-domiciled operators (BRAC, Sightsavers, AMF, Malaria Consortium) ride dashed foreign-register isles outside the US land sum; hovering any province lights every lane that feeds it.

US households sent $103.2B to family abroad in 2024, and $107.1B in 2025 (personal remittances paid, World Bank WDI / BEA balance-of-payments) — more than any Giving USA source except Individuals itself. None of it counts as “charitable giving”: remittances go person to person, with no 501(c)(3) in between, so the accounting frame this map draws never sees them. They are charted anyway, honestly: the Remittances isle stands off Individuals’ south-east coast, area-exact on the one true scale — but in its own register, outside every Giving USA sum (dashed off-ledger coast like the foreign isles; excluded from the PRIVATE GIVING arc, the organic-coast ledger and the region totals, all of which state their own coverage). It is deliberately bare of the map’s billionaire furniture — no endowment mountains, no banner flags, no keeps: granges, row-houses and orchards, because this mass is millions of kitchen-table transfers, not fortunes. Its east coast wears the parchment Sending Strand, and seven parchment lanes sail from it: five short ferries to the parchment quays of THE AMERICAS shore — México’s $62.5B corridor, the largest between any two countries on earth, heads that shore, dwarfing every aid pier on the coast of AFRICA below it — and two sail northeast to piers of their own on the EURASIA shore — India (≈$32.9B, RBI) and the Philippines (≈$14.1B, BSP); the whole right edge now sorts the destination countries by continent. One measurement honesty note, disclosed in the isle’s tooltip: lane figures are the receiving countries’ central-bank counts, which together record more arriving from the US than the US ledger records leaving — the two frames do not reconcile, and the chart draws each as reported. Corridors with no receiving-side measurement (China ≈$13B, Vietnam ≈$8B — World Bank’s 2021 bilateral model, its last) sail uncharted; Africa’s ≈$10B sails as one deliberately un-split tide to its shore, since almost none of it is officially counted (Kenya, the exception, is the one corridor that could earn a quay of its own). Worldwide context: remittances to low- and middle-income countries reached $685B in 2024 — about four times all official development assistance ($174.3B in 2025, after the largest contraction in ODA history). And since January 1, 2026, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act taxes cash-funded remittance transfers at 1% (IRS proposed regulations, April 2026) — the toll that 2025’s record Central American flows were widely read as front-running. (The isle’s water was opened by an eastern re-charting in the same round: Religion sailed west of Individuals’ horn — making the $126B pilgrimage trunk a true strait crossing — Arts & Culture took Religion’s old water, and Bequests took Arts’.)

Every trade route is colored by where the money comes from — teal for individuals, blue for foundations, violet for corporations, rose for bequests, slate for federal — so a flow can be traced end to end; terracotta is reserved for the pass-through and off-map trades (DAF grants out, the world’s aid), and the closed USAID lane keeps its wreck-red. Lane width is ∝ √($/yr) on one scale (sampled in the graduated key), so the great trunks — Individuals→Religion, the world’s aid — now read as the map’s widest waters. And the great trunks fray: zoom in and three verified trunk lanes braid into their parts — the world’s aid by donor flag (Germany $32.4B leading), education giving by alumni vs other individuals vs schools, and DAF grants by sponsor (a reverse braid: strands set out from each sponsor isle) — each strand flying an engraved crest of its cargo. (NIH’s by-institute split lives on land instead: NCI $7.2B and NIAID $6.6B keep towns beside the NIH keep on the Health province’s slate half.) Strands sum exactly to their trunk and are already inside its figure, never additional; hover a trunk to light its whole fray. Religion stays whole on purpose: no dollar decomposition of American religious giving exists anywhere (church 990 exemption), so there is nothing honest to braid.

Giving USA publishes source totals and recipient totals separately and never links them; source→sector flows are reconstructed from Candid, CECP and IRS SOI distributions (the same matrix as the who-funds-each-sector chart). Treat them as shape, not measurement. The full matrix is drawn: major lanes in ink; minor lanes ride faint at this zoom and sharpen as you zoom in — or hover any landmass or sea name to light up everything it ships or receives. Lanes and landmasses share one vintage (Giving USA 2026, 2025 data), so each source’s outbound lanes sum to its island; recipient-side, the lanes reaching a province sum to ~96% of it — the crosstab rakes sector totals down ~4% to reconcile the gifts-to-foundations/DAF recirculation over-count with the source total. WHO remains a lighthouse — no land claimed, since it is world-funded; its funding mix (~17% assessed dues vs ~83% earmarked voluntary money, the US withdrawal, the Gates Foundation at #2) lives in its tooltip.

The chart’s torn edges are deliberate: the Mandatory Lands off the west, the Distant Shore up the east, and — smallest and quietest — the Allied Institutes, torn off the south edge in the lee of the AI Safety Shoals and revealed only at Afoot (past 5×, with the shoals themselves): the rest of the world’s public AI-safety purse (UK AI Security Institute £240M, ARIA’s Safeguarded AI £59M/4yr, the £27M+ Alignment Project coalition, Canada’s CAISI…), drawn as ports on a coast that claims no area because at this map’s scale the entire shore is a rounding error with a coastline. Unlike every other figure on the chart those are multi-year programme commitments, not annual flows — the shore’s tooltip says so — and two currents cross beneath it: US philanthropy funds the UK’s AI-safety org layer, while the UK’s Alignment Project funds research worldwide. Along the west edge rise the Mandatory Lands — Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid, other mandatory spending & net interest, ~$4.9T/yr (FY2024 outlays, OMB) — beginning where Defense’s coast ends. Drawn to scale that land would cover half this entire map, so it is deliberately off-scale: the coastline claims no area and the port labels carry the figures (port markers are sized relative to that shore only). No lane connects it to the map — lanes are giving and aid flows, and mandatory outlays are neither. State & local government (~$4.7T direct expenditure, 2022 Census of Governments) stays as ghost text in the southern sea: one torn edge is enough.

Up the eastern edge rises the far side of the aid trade — the compass narrative completed (west: compulsory; middle: chosen; east: the world) — the top 8 recipient countries of US foreign assistance as ports on a coastline that runs off-chart (no area claimed; labels carry the data). Figures are FY2024 State/USAID economic-assistance disbursements (foreignassistance.gov), before the 2025 dismantling; military assistance is excluded, which is why Israel and Egypt are absent, and West Bank & Gaza ranked top-5 only by obligations (its supplemental disbursed later). The wide lane arriving from the off-map south is the rest of the world’s aid ($149B/yr, non-US DAC member countries — OECD 2024 preliminary, grant-equivalent, current USD), fraying up the shore by donor flag under the glass — the USAID lane was one of many, and now sinks in sight of the shore it once supplied. In the domestic waters, the largest single recipients appear as faceted micro-platform isles beside their sector’s province, sized by private contributions received (990s / audited reports) — an overlapping measure, since those dollars already sit on the source continents. Feeding America and Direct Relief are ~95% donated goods (food, medicines), not cash; United Way and Goodwill publish no verifiable dollar totals and are deliberately absent. In the lee of the Coefficient Giving isle the AI Safety Shoals ride a single ×100 glass platform since round 44 — and since round 63 every single-platform glass wears its magnifier outright: a brass loupe ring with a stub handle, the power stamped by the grip. Every glass on this chart magnifies ×100, with one stamped exception (round 64; one uniform power means the glass isles are honest relative to each other — the biosecurity and AI-safety shoals are buds today, drawn small because they are small. The exception: the Abundance Reach rides a ×25 loupe, moored against Public-Society Benefit — at the standard power it out-bulks every water left on the chart, so its lower power is stamped on its glass and declared in its tip), and the whole glass layer reveals only at Afoot (past 5×, round 65) — magnified isles never crowd the true-scale chart — the philanthropically-funded alignment labs (Redwood, MIRI, ARC, Constellation, FAR AI; ≈$31M/yr of 990-verified expenses, together a true-scale fleck of ~13 px²) as towns on one built isle beside their chief funder, the FTX wreck (their biggest lost funder) still beside it; corporate lab safety teams are unverifiable and not drawn. Hover Coefficient Giving to light the shoals, or GiveWell — anchored at the mouth of International Waters — to light its top-charity harbors. And chained up the channel off Environment & Animals’ west coast (revealed at Afoot, past 5×), the Farm Animal Welfare Isles ride as first-class glass islands at ×100 magnification — beaded coasts and the ×100 loupe by their caption mark the glass (the chain is too tightly moored for each isle to wear its own ring) — the corporate-campaign and alt-protein organizations (GFI, Humane World Intl, Mercy For Animals, THL, Animal Equality, CIWF), 990-verified expenses, drawn at a magnification that admits how small this sector is: all six together ≈ $124M/yr, about 0.02% of American giving, moored beside the animal-welfare quarter whose true-scale halls stand ashore.

Zoom all the way ashore (past 3.2×) and the provinces begin to gain their own settlements: the organizations the sector’s money actually reaches, drawn as halls — a third land glyph beside keeps and towns. A keep grants out; a town is a name-only part of its province’s whole; a hall receives & spends — its marker is ∝ √(annual spend), and it claims no area, because its dollars already sit inside the province’s area-exact landmass (the same overlapping-measure honesty as the recipient isles). The rosters are not hand-drawn: a build-time generator curates them from the ecosystem registry — only organizations with a verified US 990 figure and a source on file may fly a sized hall; each district takes its top N by verified spend and discloses what fell below the cutoff in the table at the foot of this page, so the cap is never silent. Placement is deterministic (a value-ordered ladder down the province’s private half, flowing around every existing mark), so re-running the generator after a registry currency sweep updates the map without moving anything that didn’t change. Three districts so far. The animal welfare quarter on Environment & Animals holds ten 990-verified animal organizations — eight halls from the ASPCA ($388M/yr) down to Lever Foundation ($2.1M/yr), plus two villages (Faunalytics, New Harvest) that reveal one altitude deeper, at Afoot; the cap is the lobe’s physical coastline (its three inbound lanes were re-aimed to the north-east shoulders to make even that room), and the six verified orgs below the cutoff are disclosed in the table. The Research Coast on Health’s gold shore is the former Science Shoals come ashore — Allen Institute, CZ Biohub, Arc Institute, Convergent Research and Santa Fe Institute, whose dollars were always counted inside Health’s private-giving figure: an anchor at sea said “in passage,” which was false for terminal recipient-operators. And the delivery quarter on International Affairs holds the nine US-domiciled aid organizations of the former fleet, PATH ($352M/yr) down to IDinsight ($22M/yr), each figure restated to its IRS 990 — GiveWell’s hover still lights its recommended fleet across both forms, halls and foreign isles alike. Three anchors remain at sea: MAPS, Student Freedom Initiative, and Unlimit Health — a true-scale fleck. The corporate-campaign cluster (THL, Mercy For Animals, GFI…) stays in its ×100 inset glass nearby, where its true scale is the point. Hover Coefficient Giving to light the halls it funds.

The themed interiors (a bastioned Pentagon Citadel and naval yard on Defense, a memorial colonnade on Veterans, the launch pad on NASA, a university precinct — great library, gatehouse and a collegiate quadrangle on Education's gold shore, an academy hall on its slate shore — on Education, the Exchange and its office row on Corporations, a Victorian garden cemetery — mausoleum, lychgate and cypress avenue — on Bequests, a cathedral crowning Religion's interfaith parish district, a Great Infirmary and lazaretto on Health's private shore, almshouses and a bread-line row on Human Services, a Port of Aid — quay, treadwheel dockcranes, warehouses and a customshouse — facing the Distant Shore on International Affairs, a Foundling School on Health & Social Services, GiveWell's own evaluator's lens on its isle, and a keeper's cottage and moored skiff added to the WHO lighthouse…), the forests, the ships (mast count tells rig, not value — the number lives on the lane's own label), the sea vignettes beside sea labels, the serpent and the map's other resident creatures — the whale, the Overhead Kraken half-surfaced in the northern void, a dolphin pair escorting the flagship, a small band of flying fish, and a dignified siren on a rock in the southeast — and buried jokes carry no figures — they only say what each place is for (any number a joke's tooltip does mention is verified elsewhere on this map, or attributed to its published source). The same promise covers the plate's own chrome: the compass rose's fleur-de-lis, the title cartouche's strapwork corners and its two small flanking allegorical figures, and the neatline's corner medallions are ornament — engraved statuary, not data; they carry no numbers of their own. Everything that encodes a number is listed in the table below.