there’s a natural power imbalance in philanthropy between those with money to give and those who need it an imbalance that’s exacerbated in the us by an extreme wealth gap the us congressional budget office recently reported that family wealth became “less equally distributed” over the three decades to 2019 the share of wealth held by families in the top 10 grew from 63 to 72 in that period while the share for those in the bottom half fell from 4 to 2 the cbo said