We fundraise in layers. Each level unlocks real work. If we stop early, we still deliver value. If we go further, we go deeper—not wider.
🌱 Base Survival — $60,000
Keep the lights on. Keep people paid.
This covers:
- Core site infrastructure and tools
- Minimal admin and compliance costs
- Partial stipends for core disabled labor
- A small but active mutual aid buffer
Without this: work becomes unpaid, fragile, and burnout-driven.
With this: Stimpunks survives the year.
🌿 Stability — $120,000
Make the work sustainable.
Everything above, plus:
- Living-wage compensation for core contributors
- Regular mutual aid distribution
- Ongoing creator micro-grants
- Maintenance and updates to Field Guides and core content
This is the minimum level where Stimpunks can operate without constant crisis.
🌳 Capacity — $180,000
Do the work we’re already doing—well.
Everything above, plus:
- Paid research and documentation sprints
- Expanded editorial and accessibility labor
- Better support for contributors (editing, pacing, breaks)
- Stronger transparency and accountability practices
At this level, Stimpunks stops treading water and starts building capacity.
🌲 Growth (Careful, Not Extractive) — $240,000
Grow depth, not scale.
Everything above, plus:
- Increased mutual aid reach during crisis periods
- New Field Guides and learning spaces
- Pilot programs for neurodivergent-led education and community support
- Paid mentorship for emerging disabled creators
Growth here means resilience—not expansion for its own sake.
🌲🌲 Long-Term Resilience — $300,000
Build a future we don’t have to apologize for.
Everything above, plus:
- Multi-year planning and reserves
- Reduced reliance on emergency fundraising
- Space to experiment, rest, and repair harm
- Infrastructure for future projects (including education pathways)
This level protects people from burnout and keeps Stimpunks alive beyond one year.
How We Think About Money
- We pay disabled people for their labor.
- We prioritize direct support over overhead theater.
- We stop when needs are met.
- We tell the truth if we fall short.
Every dollar moves us from survival toward stability, and from stability toward collective power.
During it all, we will heed our Fundraising Manifesto.
Current funding level: Base Survival
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One in seven persons in the world has a disability. Yet, grants for persons with disabilities constitute just 2% of all human rights funding.
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Why donate to us? The nonprofit professionals who consult us tell us we’re unique. They tell us we’re tearing down walls in philanthropy…
1. Your money goes directly to people, not bureaucracy
Stimpunks practices mutual aid, not charity theater. Donations are moved quickly and with low barriers to neurodivergent and disabled people who need relief now—for rent, food, care, survival. This prevents crises before they become emergencies, which is both more humane and more effective than downstream interventions.
Impact: Immediate stabilization, reduced stress, fewer crisis escalations.
2. Stimpunks fixes conditions, not people
Most systems are built around compliance: behave correctly, mask well, suffer quietly, and maybe you’ll get help. Stimpunks rejects that model entirely. It invests in access, psychological safety, and autonomy, which research and lived experience both show lead to better long-term outcomes.
Your donation supports:
- Communication access
- Sensory and space access
- Education and healthcare access
- Environments where people don’t have to erase themselves to survive
3. It’s led by the people most affected
Stimpunks is neurodivergent- and disabled-led. That means:
- No guessing what people need
- No extractive storytelling
- No top-down “solutions” that create harm
Lived experience isn’t a side note here—it’s the operating system.
Result: Higher relevance, higher trust, higher impact per dollar.
4. It prevents harm instead of managing fallout
Compliance-based therapies, inaccessible systems, and deficit narratives cost people their health, education, jobs, and lives. Stimpunks intervenes upstream by:
- Publishing open, neuroaffirming learning pathways
- Challenging harmful practices
- Giving families, educators, and professionals better tools
Prevention is cheaper, kinder, and more effective than repair.
5. Your donation creates compounding impact
Stimpunks doesn’t just help individuals—it builds shared infrastructure:
- Free learning resources used globally
- Language and frameworks that change how people think and act
- Community knowledge that outlives any single grant
One donation helps one person and strengthens the ecosystem that supports thousands more.
6. This is accountability without gatekeeping
Stimpunks operates with transparency, low overhead, and a clear ethical spine. There’s no pressure to sanitize stories or soften the truth to appease funders. Donations support honest work rooted in dignity, not optics.
7. Because people shouldn’t have to mask to deserve care
At the deepest level, donating to Stimpunks is a values decision.
It says:
- People are not broken
- Difference is not a defect
- Care should never be conditional on conformity
Authenticity is our purest freedom—and freedom requires resources.
Bottom line
If you want your money to:
- Reach people fast
- Reduce harm instead of rebranding it
- Support work led by those who live it
- Build something real, not polite
Donate to Stimpunks.org.
Your donations help us serve our loved people so we can keep on living through the onslaught.
Double your impact. Many employers match donations through Benevity and similar platforms.
Accountability Is Care
We don’t do mystery charity. We work in public, publish our policies, and show where the money goes — because trust is part of access.
- Accountability & Transparency Hub
- Where the Money Went (2025)
- Program/Admin/Fundraising Expense Policy
- Annual Reports
- Donor Privacy Policy
- Frequently Requested Information
Donate if you can. Share if you can’t. Either way, thank you for building access with us.
