Spent to raise every $100 donated.
Two cancer charities spent 85% of donations simply raising more donations.
An AI-native non-profit organization that funds and runs its own programs — and publishes what every dollar did.
Given to US charities in 2025. The instinct is intact and the money is there.
Spent to raise every $100 donated.
Two cancer charities spent 85% of donations simply raising more donations.
Cost more money to run than they raised.
Those campaigns collectively lost charities more than $20 million.
Paid to professional fundraising companies in one year.
Professional fundraisers retained an average of 25% of donations across 588 campaigns.
Of donations went to professional fundraising companies.
Kids Wish Network paid approximately $109.8 million of the $127.8 million it raised to professional solicitors.
One of America's largest charity fraud cases.
The FTC alleged donations intended for cancer patients funded cars, cruises, tuition, entertainment, and professional fundraisers.
Of cash expenses reached the programs.
The Committee for Missing Children spent $83 to raise every $100, and netted an average of just 16% from its professional fundraisers. FY ended 31 August 2023.
Chief-executive compensation as reported on each organization’s IRS Form 990.
Record generosity hasn't produced a matching reduction in the conditions it targets. Donors report they can't see what their money did — so they give less, later, or not at all.
Nobody in this system is short of good intent. They're running machinery designed before the internet, and the machinery is where the money goes.
Layers of approval, reconciliation and reporting sit between the donation and the work.
Confirming help arrived costs more than the help. So most organizations sample it, or skip it.
Structures built to raise funds consume the funds they raise.
An annual PDF is a summary written by the party being assessed.
Emergency help solves the moment without touching the conditions that produced it.
The fundraising model leaks. The delivery model leaks. Somebody has to build the one that doesn't.
The generosity is real. The delivery system is what wastes it.
Sources · Giving USA 2026. CharityWatch ratings for the American Breast Cancer Foundation and the now-dissolved National Cancer Coalition. Office of the New York Attorney General, “Pennies for Charity: Fundraising by Professional Fundraisers,” 2025 report covering 588 campaigns conducted in 2024. CNN / Tampa Bay Times / Center for Investigative Reporting, “America’s Worst Charities,” 2013. U.S. Federal Trade Commission et al. v. Cancer Fund of America et al., May 2015. CharityWatch, “Some of the Worst Charities in America 2024,” on the Committee for Missing Children (FY ended 31 August 2023). Executive compensation as reported on each organization’s IRS Form 990.
Every input this sector runs on is voluntary. When confidence falls, everything contracts at once. Donors give less and give later. Corporate partners quietly disengage. Volunteers stop believing their time changes anything. Governments hesitate to route funding through the sector. And the communities at the end of that chain lose support that was already too thin.
Five things arrived at once. Individually, each is an efficiency. Together they make a fundamentally different operating model available for the first time.
Verification, matching, coordination and reporting at a marginal cost approaching zero. Those are the three jobs that made transparency unaffordable.
Distribution that used to cost hundreds of millions is now earned. Proof travels further than advertising ever did.
Funds move and settle in minutes, with a record of where they went, at a cost that makes small recurring donations viable.
Need, delivery and outcome can be confirmed on a phone. No office, no paper trail.
A very large group of people who still want to give, still can, and are actively looking for somewhere they can believe in.
The trust vacuum is the opening. The tools to fill it have only just arrived.
DAD is an AI-native non-profit organization. We fund and operate our own programs, co-build initiatives with corporate partners, and publish what every dollar did — so you can see the difference you make instead of being asked to assume it.
Better architecture creates better outcomes.
Trust is earned every day, not requested once a year.
The vision. Once it works, we intend to hand the model to the sector. The long version of that is an operating system for modern giving. The short version is: prove it first.
Three funding streams, three delivery vehicles. Every one of them is a program we own or an initiative we monitor end to end.
Recurring micro-donations and partner capital pool into initiative budgets.
DAD designs and runs the program, or co-builds and monitors it with a partner.
Outcomes are recorded, verified and published continuously. Not summarized annually.
Proof does what promises can't. More donors, creators and partners join. Participation funds more programs.
You'll see which program it funded, what that program did, and what changed. Cancel any time — but you probably won't want to.
A dollar on its own is modest. A dollar a day from millions of people is an operating budget — and unlike a restricted grant, it goes where the evidence says it should.
We won't tell you 100% of your dollar reaches the work. Nobody's does, and the organizations that say it are funding themselves somewhere you can't see. We'll publish the split — what reached the program, and what it cost to run the organization — and you can check it.
Pick the programs you want your dollar in.
See which initiative it funded, and what that initiative funded next.
Goals, milestones, delivery updates and verified outcomes.
Invite others, build teams, and participate alongside creators and communities.
Streaks, levels and milestones for showing up.
Donors, creators, companies and philanthropic partners provide capital, reach and expertise.
AI research, expert teams and a community vote. Not a quarterly committee.
We design and operate our own programs. Where deep field expertise already exists, we co-build the initiative and monitor it end to end. We don't hand the money over and stop.
Continuously, as the work happens. Not summarized once a year.
Nobody supports a charitable organization because it uses AI. They support it because they believe it'll help more people. AI is how we get there. It's never why you should care.
Product mockup — concept
See where it went. See what happened. See what we learned.
Technology isn't the mission. It's how we make the mission work.
Every organization at this stage dresses up early momentum as evidence. We're doing the opposite — publishing the standard we'll be judged against before we can meet it.
Until there are outcomes, the strongest thing about us is who's building this. Our advisors, founding team and staff have built and scaled at Salesforce, HubSpot, Amazon, Intel, Samsung, TikTok, Snapchat, JPMorgan, MTV, Netflix and Bloomberg. Our team is well connected and knows how to build — and we're just getting started.
We publish what happened, including when it's unflattering. An annual report written by the party being assessed isn't evidence.
Radical transparency applies to our operations. It never applies to a person's hardest month.
Every dollar absorbed by structure is a dollar that didn't reach the work. We treat waste as a failure of ethics, not just of ops.
Donors, partners, volunteers and the people we serve are on the same side of the same effort. There's no top of this organization.
The model, the numbers, the mistakes and eventually the system itself belong to the sector, not to us.
We won't promise every initiative works. We'll promise to measure it, publish it, and tell you what we changed.
The vision can be enormous. The first steps must be achievable.
Two offers, and only these two.
We design and run a major initiative with you. Your category, your audience, your story. Our operating model, and verified outcome data.
The community votes on the highest-leverage ideas. You fund the winner. You didn't pick the cause — the public did, and you showed up for it.
You get outcome counts you can check independently, and a clean, fast way to participate. Our transparency protects you too — you can put the numbers in front of a board or a journalist.
Built once, used by everyone, designed to make itself unnecessary.
DAD is assembling a founding group — one anchor funder, or a syndicate of three to five. Founding capital funds the platform, the governance, the delivery partnerships, the operating team and the first proof-of-model initiatives.
Contribute experience, challenge and perspective while the system is being built.
Work alongside leaders from philanthropy, technology, media, business and delivery.
Fund infrastructure that strengthens every future initiative, not one intervention.
We're building this for people who stopped believing giving works, and would like to be proved wrong.
This is an invitation to help build it.
Tell us how you'd like to help build DAD. We read every message.