Every institution has a score. It is a ratio: what the evidence shows was received by the people the institution claims to serve, divided by what the institution claims to deliver. Not politics. Arithmetic.
How to read a BA score
The institution is not failing its stated mission. It is making a claim it cannot support. The gap is too large to be accidental.
Some benefit reaches the claimed population. Less than half of what was promised. Improvement is possible and the data shows where to start.
The evidence supports what the institution says it does. The flows are traceable. The claim holds.
BA Score produces a single number. Here is what it means: verified receipt divided by claimed distribution. Each score is built from weighted dimensions — financial flows, program reach, independent audit findings, beneficiary survey data — scored 0 to 1 and averaged. The confidence band reflects source tier uncertainty: a narrow band means the evidence is consistent. A wide band means it is not. Both are honest answers. The weights, component definitions, source tier hierarchy, and confidence band calculation are fully documented. You can replicate any score with a spreadsheet. That is intentional. The mechanism is not ours to hoard.
A score of 0.08 means 8% of the claimed benefit is empirically traceable to the stated population. It does not mean anyone did anything wrong. It means the ratio is 0.08. BA Score does not produce verdicts about intent, character, or legal culpability.
Every score on this platform is a published analytical opinion grounded in a disclosed methodology and publicly available sources, each listed beneath the score. Scores may differ from those produced by other tools, analysts, or the institutions themselves. That divergence is not error. It is the expected result of different methodological choices. Ours are documented. We invite scrutiny of them.
Scores are versioned. If you hold primary data that contradicts a score — peer-reviewed research, independent audit findings, verified disbursement records — submit it through the portal with your sources attached. The methodology will process it. There is no committee. There is no negotiation. There is arithmetic.