Today · manual
v1 · markdown + git
Until fiscal sponsorship lands, the ledger lives as a ledger.md file checked into the public site repo. Every entry is a commit. The git history is the audit trail. Receipts are stored alongside.
Public ledger·Radical transparency·Updated within 7 days of each transaction
Every dollar in. Every dollar out.
JEN-R8 commits to a public, line-item record of every donation received and every dollar spent, with receipts. The full ledger goes live the moment our first dollar is spent. Until then, this page is the commitments document — what we will publish, how we will publish it, and where it will live.
Commitments
What we promise to publish.
- 01
Every expense, line-itemed
Date · vendor · amount · what it bought · receipt link · milestone tag. Posted within seven days of the transaction clearing. No expense too small to record.
- 02
Cumulative balances, updated weekly
How much has been raised. How much has been deployed. How much remains. The number of donors and the median donation, no individual donor details unless consented to.
- 03
Receipts, archived
Every receipt scanned (or invoice exported) and stored alongside the ledger entry. PDF or image, viewable in browser. We don’t expect anyone to audit us — but the option is right there.
- 04
The plan for the coffers
A rolling 90-day spend plan, published alongside the ledger. What we intend to fund next, the dollar amount, and the milestone it unlocks. If priorities shift, we revise and date the change.
- 05
Operator pay, disclosed
Once the institute pays its operators (currently zero), the rate and the hours are public. No grey zone for salaries. No surprise “administrative overhead” categories.
- 06
The book closes annually
An end-of-year summary, fixed in time, signed and dated. Open Collective will make this automatic. Until it does, we’ll do it by hand.
How it works · today and later
Two phases. Same level of disclosure.
Later · automated
v2 · Open Collective
Once we land a qualified 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor (Open Collective is the target), donations and expenses route through their platform, which publishes a real-time public ledger automatically. We’ll mirror it here.
The book
No entries yet — the first dollar hasn’t been spent.
The institute will publish its first ledger entry within seven days of the first expense clearing. Drop your email below to be notified the moment that happens — and every quarter after, when we summarize what was spent and what it bought.
Trust, but verify