Charity is broken.
So we built...

The world's most efficient and transparent non-profit to ever exist, where every dollar is tracked to what it did. Live. In public.

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Aid, delivered.

01 · The problem

$617,200,000,000

Given by Americans last year. Up 5%.

And millions of people stopped giving.

3.6% fewer donors. Fourth year running.

They didn't want to stop helping. They stopped trusting the institutions.

Because they found out things like..

In New York alone:

$187 million.

Four cancer charities. Sued by the FTC and all fifty states.

86 cents of every dollar.

Paid to the fundraisers in many cases.

Every one of them looked legitimate but they wasted the money that was meant to help.

It isn't just charities

The government's own auditors count roughly $3 trillion in improper payments since 2003. Every administration. Both parties. The machinery is the problem, not the people running it.

Generosity isn't broken. Delivery is.

Read the full problem

So we started over.

  1. 01 · Fund.

    Your dollar lands in a fund, alongside millions of others, with our partners' resources and capital too.

  2. 02 · Operate.

    We run it ourselves. If someone's already cracked the problem, we bring them in. We never hand off the money and walk away. We are a bunch of nerds dedicated to solving the problem with data, and love.

  3. 03 · Prove.

    Every dollar on the record. What it funded. What it delivered. What it cost. Published as it happens on our public ledger, not a year later. We also video the progress, stream, and share weekly.

  4. 04 · Grow.

    Proof spreads faster than promises. People see it work. They bring their people. More programs get funded.

Programs create proof. Proof builds trust. Trust brings people. People fund programs.

See how it works

03 · The proof

Every dollar. On the record.

Not an annual report we write about ourselves. A live ledger anyone can check. Including the parts that don't make us look good.

DAD · Open Ledger: Program register

Example data

The full register is downloadable as CSV. Any number here can be traced to a delivery record, a partner invoice and a verification timestamp.

ProgramDeployedPeople reachedVerified outcomesStatus
Every Table FullPRG-0114 · 38 states$6.42M884,21097% verifiedOperating
Keep The Lights OnPRG-0221 · 29 states$5.18M412,88099% verifiedOperating
Doors Not WaitlistsPRG-0308 · 22 states$3.96M168,43094% verifiedOperating
Someone Picks UpPRG-0402 · 31 states$2.87M641,09091% verifiedScaling
Clinic Without WallsPRG-0517 · 18 states$2.14M203,76088% verifiedScaling
First PaycheckPRG-0623 · 12 states$1.44M61,34076% verifiedPiloting
Rural RelayPRG-0709 · 9 states$0.98M46,17068% verifiedPiloting

DAD · Open Ledger: Overview

Example data

People helped

2,417,880

Unique individuals reached across 120 active programs.

84,110 this quarter

Meals funded

41.2M

Delivered through 214 food partners and 38 mobile pantries.

12.4% vs. last quarter

Bills paid

$18.7M

Rent, utilities and medical arrears cleared at the source.

$1.9M this quarter

Traceable to outcome

100%

Every dollar carries a receipt. Unverified spend is published as unverified.

0 unreconciled records
Ledger opened
04 Jan 2027
Last write
4s ago
Independent audits
7 of 7 passed
Records published
1,284,006

DAD · Open Ledger: Outcomes

Example data

Medical arrears cleared

$4.1M

Hospital and clinic balances paid at the source for 9,870 households, confirmed with the billing provider.

Method · Provider-confirmed balance · 22 hospital systems

Households food-secure at 6 months

78%

Up from 41% at intake. Measured by USDA six-item short form, n=18,442 households.

Method · USDA HFSSM short form · Quarterly resurvey

Eviction filings avoided

14,206

Cases where an arrears payment cleared before a filing date, confirmed against county court records.

Method · County court record match · 92% match confidence

Utility reconnections held 12 months

91%

Households still connected one year after a Keep The Lights On payment, verified with the utility.

Method · Utility-confirmed account status · 14 providers

Example data for illustration only. DAD's first programs go live in June 2027; the live ledger publishes real records from then.

Nobody gets 100% of your dollar to the work. We'll show you exactly how much did, and where the rest went.

We have been strategically planning. Our first programs go live in June 2027. So we're publishing the standard we'll be judged against now, so you know what to expect.

See what we'll publish

04 · Programs

Our mission: end human suffering.

Big? Yes. That's the point. We start where it's concrete.

Food.

That's actually healthy, and plenty of it.

Health.

Everyone should have access to helpful & holistic treatments. Not bandaids, lifelong transformation.

Opportunities.

Skills. Jobs. Stability. A way out forever.

Infrastructure.

The ground a community stands on. Companies the workers own.

No guessing. We map need across all 3,144 counties in America across trillions of data points, bring in the people who've solved it before or know how, and execute at the speed of super intelligence.

This isn't a charity built by just charity people.

It's built by people who've scaled technology, companies, brands and audiences. Now they're doing it for the people who need them most.

Our team comes from

  • Salesforce
  • HubSpot
  • Amazon
  • Intel
  • Samsung
  • TikTok
  • Snapchat
  • J.P. Morgan
  • MTV
  • Netflix
  • Bloomberg
  • P&G
  • Dartmouth
  • Lockheed Martin

Our team comes from

  • Salesforce
  • HubSpot
  • Amazon
  • Intel
  • Samsung
  • TikTok
  • Snapchat
  • J.P. Morgan
  • MTV
  • Netflix
  • Bloomberg
  • P&G
  • Dartmouth
  • Lockheed Martin

Leadership

  • Chris Watley

    Chris Watley

    Founder & CEO

    A decade scaling companies: building and running teams of 100+, managing nationwide boots-on-the-ground operations, and being a father for 17 years.

  • Rabetanety Andri

    Rabetanety Andri

    Chief Financial & Operating Officer

    18 years running finance and operations at Amazon, P&G and 1inch.

  • Sean Coe

    Sean Coe

    Director of Technology

    25 years across technology, product and cybersecurity. Founder, CTO, and co-inventor of two AI/ML technologies.

  • Lukasz Orlowski

    Lukasz Orlowski

    Director of AI

    MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35. Intel infrastructure; strategy for ventures valued over $1B.

  • Colin Fitzpatrick

    Colin Fitzpatrick

    Director of Partnerships

    Ecosystem strategy inside Oracle, Salesforce and HubSpot. AI-native builder; $10M+ raised.

  • Tim Kingery

    Tim Kingery

    Director of Growth

    13+ years leading marketing teams across startups, tech and a publicly traded agency.

  • Robbie Norris

    Robbie Norris

    Director of Media

    Award-winning filmmaker from MTV. Sundance-screened. Directed Jamie Foxx, Mark Wahlberg and Chris Pratt.

  • Burcu Paker

    Burcu Paker

    Chief of Staff

    Eight years as Chief of Staff, turning complex ideas into systems that scale: strategy, technology and execution.

  • Fang Zhang

    Fang Zhang

    Lead Engineer

    Full-stack at Amazon, TikTok and Snap, building systems that serve hundreds of millions of users.

  • Chris Watley

    Chris Watley

    Founder & CEO

  • Rabetanety Andri

    Rabetanety Andri

    Chief Financial & Operating Officer

  • Sean Coe

    Sean Coe

    Director of Technology

  • Lukasz Orlowski

    Lukasz Orlowski

    Director of AI

  • Colin Fitzpatrick

    Colin Fitzpatrick

    Director of Partnerships

  • Tim Kingery

    Tim Kingery

    Director of Growth

  • Robbie Norris

    Robbie Norris

    Director of Media

  • Burcu Paker

    Burcu Paker

    Chief of Staff

  • Fang Zhang

    Fang Zhang

    Lead Engineer

Meet the team
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Where we are. Building at hyper-speed.

  1. Now

    Giving is open. Building the platform. Designing the first programs. Founding team in place.

  2. January 2027

    The donor app opens. Bring your people.

  3. June 2027

    The first programs go live, and so does the public ledger.

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Our measure of success isn't how big DAD gets. It's how much less the world needs it.

Built for everyone who stopped believing giving works. Come watch us prove you wrong.

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