Fund the Research

The Ledger is free — no paywall, now or ever. Reader donations are what keep the verification hours funded.

What your money does

• $25 — covers one FOIA request's fees
• $50 — funds an afternoon of document verification
• $100 — underwrites a full entry, start to finish
• $250 — keeps the lights on for a week of tracking

Give

Donation links are placeholders — connect your Ko-fi / Patreon here. One-time and monthly options will both be offered.

Where the money goes

Directly to research time: FOIA fees, document retrieval, archival subscriptions, and the hours it takes to verify every entry. A transparency note is published periodically. Funders never influence entries or status labels — that's the public, written rule (see funding).

Other ways to support

• Subscribe to the weekly Ledger — free, and it grows the audience funders notice
• Commission research — the high-margin engine behind the free site
• Share entries with their sources attached. Receipts travel.