Transparency
Every number, and where it came from
This page is built from the same rows the scoreboard counts — real, paid orders and nothing else. It includes the numbers that do not flatter us, because a stats page you cannot embarrass is a stats page nobody has any reason to believe.
The totals
Raised, all time
$0
Every paid order since the board opened, including the seed money below.
Raised this week
$0
Current season, 2026-W35. Resets to zero when the week closes.
Contributors, all time
0
Distinct people, not orders. Give three times and you are counted once.
Gifts, all time
0
One paid order, one gift.
Nobody has contributed yet, so these really are zero. They move the moment the first payment lands, and not one second before.
The two lines we could have quietly folded into the total
Seed money and refunds are what a scoreboard normally nets out where nobody can see it. They get their own lines here, permanently.
Seed money
$0Money the operator put in themselves to open the board, so the mechanic could be seen working before anyone else had paid anything. It is counted in the totals above, it is flagged as seed in the database, on the live feed and on this line, and it is the only money here that is not a fan's. That is also why it is exempt from the daily limit. Every other dollar on this board is a real, paid order from a real person.
Refunded, all time
Money given back to fans. It is not subtracted from the totals above — both figures are published so you can do the subtraction yourself instead of trusting ours. While a week is live, a refund lowers that week's pool immediately. After a week closes, the money still goes back but the frozen record of that week does not change; that rule is spelled out on the rules page.
Where the money comes from
Country comes from the billing address our payment processor sends with each order, not from an IP lookup and never from anything you did not type into a payment form. Some payment methods return none at all.
No contributions yet, so there is nothing to break down by country.
Every week, since the first one
A closed week is frozen: its total and its crown are stored as a snapshot and are never recomputed. A week in which nobody contributed closes with no crown at all — it does not go to whoever happens to sort first.
No week has closed yet. The first row appears here the Monday after the first week ends.
What this page does not show
- What we keep. The payment processor's fee comes off every order, and what is left pays for the site and for the person running it. The exact fee per order is recorded in our database but is not published here yet. The about page says plainly where the money goes.
- Anything that identifies you. No names, no email addresses, no order ids, no IP addresses and no per-person amounts. The contributor count is a count of distinct salted email hashes, and we cannot turn one of those back into an address. See privacy.
- Estimates or projections. Nothing here is modelled, smoothed or rounded up. Public totals are floored to the dollar, so a true $1,234.99 shows as $1,234 — the displayed number is never larger than the real one. That is the only rounding anywhere on this site.
- The very last second. This page is cached briefly, so it can trail the live counter on the board by a few seconds. The board is the live number; this page is the audit.
Two limits shape every number above: nobody can give more than $50 in any rolling 24 hours, and any gift can be refunded within 72 hours with no questions asked. Both are described in full on the rules page.