Where the Money Went

This is the full financial record: every line we spent in 2025 and so far in 2026, where the money came from, and what our books cannot show you. The short version lives on our Impact page. Everything here comes from our books.

Here is the part a page like this usually leaves out. We spend far more than we take in.

In 2025 we spent $122,626 and took in $32,599 — about 27 cents of revenue for every dollar that went out the door. Individual donations across the whole year came to $6,953, which means we spent $17.64 for every dollar a person gave us. Through August 9, 2026, the shape is steeper, not better: $58,941 spent against $5,539 in revenue.

Reserves cover the difference — at least 73% of everything we spent in 2025, and 91% of what we have spent in 2026. And almost none of what did come in came from people giving us money: individual donations were $6,953 of $32,599, about a fifth. The rest is booked as investment income, and as of today we are not confident that is what it is. There is a note under the revenue table.

This is not a lean year. This is the mechanism. And because 88% of our spending is program, there is no overhead layer to trim our way out of it. The deficit is the mutual aid grants, the creator grants, and the two paid staff who find people services in their own towns, get them to appointments, and check in afterward — work done alongside Disabled and Neurodivergent people in genuinely perilous situations, many of them unhoused. If this shape does not change, that is what gets smaller. Not the office. The aid.

We publish it in the same detail as the parts that flatter us, because a transparency page that only shows the good ratios is marketing. If you want the arithmetic to change, it changes here — at our size, one donation moves the number.

Where it went

Category	2025	2026 so far
Program Services	$107,730 · 88%	$54,734 · 93%
Management & General	$11,326 · 9%	$4,206 · 7%
Under review	$3,570 · 3%	—
Fundraising	—	$0
Total expenses	$122,626	$58,941

Every line

Line	2025	2026 so far	Counted as
Mutual aid grants	$8,499	$1,500	Program
Creator grants	$12,000	$3,000	Program
Operations staff	$76,580	$46,360	Program
Software, apps & hosting	$7,248	$3,415	Program
Programs & events	$3,403	$460	Program
Accounting	$4,725	$2,400	Management
Taxes	$4,000	—	Management
Insurance	$1,268	$873	Management
Licenses & state registration	$372	$292	Management
Internet services	—	$434	Management
Shipping & postage	$166	$119	Management
Supplies & materials	$239	—	Management
Memberships & subscriptions	$44	$60	Management
Office supplies & printing	$35	$26	Management
Bank & investment fees	$116	$0	Management
Legal	—	$2	Management
Uncategorized purchases	$361	—	Management
Booked as fundraising fees	$3,570	—	Under review
Total	$122,626	$58,941

Where it came from, and what we did not have

Source	2025	2026 so far
Donations from individuals	$6,953	$4,004
Investment income	$25,220	$1,442
Sales	$426	$94
Total revenue	$32,599	$5,539
Total expenses	$122,626	$58,941
Deficit	−$90,027	−$53,402

The top of this page says we spend far more than we take in. This is the table it comes from. Reserves covered at least 73% of our 2025 spending, and 91% of our 2026 spending so far.

That is not a shape that holds forever, and we would rather publish it than be found out by it later.

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How we classify, and why not the usual three buckets

Program, administration, and fundraising was built for organizations that hold galas, buy advertising, and employ development staff. We do none of those things. Forced into those three boxes, our spending produced a number that was wrong about us in the direction of looking worse.

Our two paid staff are the program. They run the grant programs and deliver the non-monetary mutual aid — finding services in people’s own localities, arranging healthcare and social services appointments, helping people navigate systems designed to exhaust them, and checking in afterward. Much of that work is done alongside people in genuinely perilous situations, many of them without housing. Counting it as administration would describe the core of this organization as overhead.

Software is program tooling. It hosts and maintains our knowledge gardens, and it provides software and internet access to members of our community. Internet access for a Disabled person who could not otherwise afford it is mutual aid, not office overhead.

We do not fundraise. No events, no marketing, no development staff. The 2026 column shows what that actually looks like: zero. The $3,570 in the 2025 column is posted to a fundraising fees account and we are still tracing what it paid for — our current understanding is merchandise, printed materials, and event signage, which would make almost none of it fundraising. We have left it labeled honestly rather than moved it to where we think it belongs.

What these numbers cannot show you

We do not publish individual compensation. The operations staff line is a total. We have two paid people, so splitting that line would disclose what each of them earns, and that is theirs to share rather than ours. Aggregate figures reach our public filings in the ordinary way.

The largest labor input we have does not appear anywhere above. Two of our co-creative directors work full time and draw no salary. There is no line for them, because there is no transaction to record. Every figure on this page is calculated on money, so these tables quietly describe a smaller organization than the one that exists — two people instead of four, with two senior people missing entirely.

We are not going to invent a number for it. We also do not count the non-monetary mutual aid our staff deliver — the appointments, the service navigation, the checking in — because that work is continuous and relational and has no clean unit. Any number we produced would be a fact about our record-keeping rather than about the care.

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Access requires infrastructure.
Care work requires stewardship.
This is where the money went.

More in our Accountability & Transparency Hub, our annual reports, and our expense policy.