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Transparency

Trust is earned by showing your work. Here is how we account for every gift.

Where your dollar goes

Our goal is to put as much of every gift as possible directly into the hands of people in crisis.

How funds are tracked

Every gift follows the same four recorded steps.

  1. Donation received

    Your gift is recorded the moment it arrives.

  2. Funds allocated

    Money is assigned to a confirmed need.

  3. Transfer sent

    Funds move directly to the recipient.

  4. Result reported

    The outcome is logged and shared.

Our practices

  • Tracked from start to finish

    Every donation is recorded on our digital platform, so we can follow each dollar from the donor to the person it helps.

  • Secure by design

    Payments move through secure, regulated channels. We never ask recipients or donors to share card details by email or phone.

  • Reports you can read

    We publish plain-language summaries of what we raised, what we sent, and who it helped.

What you see when you give through DDI

Gifts to DDI are made through the Emergency Activation Network. With a donor account, you can follow each one from your donation to the people it helped.

Watch one gift go from a donor to a family in 80 seconds. The donation, amounts and recipient are a demonstration.

  1. Every gift in one place

    Your Donations page lists each gift with its program, amount and status. At the top, it totals what you gave, what reached people and what went to fees.

    A donor's Donations page: $103 given to Direct Digital Impact for the Emergency assistance fund, marked Delivered, with a $3.40 donation fee, $100 delivered to recipients and $6.40 in fees in total.Open full size

  2. Follow your money to each person

    Open a gift to see every transfer DDI made with it: what each person received, the transfer fee and what the money covered.

    The gift opened to DDI's payment, Emergency assistance for Maria R.: $100 to one recipient with a $3 fee, tagged Food, with a thank-you message, a receipt and a photo.Open full size

  3. Hear from the people you helped

    Recipients can send back a category, a short message, their receipt and a photo. They appear by a number, never by name, to protect their privacy.

    The gift's timeline from the Emergency assistance fund to Direct Digital Impact to one recipient, with her message open: Thank you so much. This covered our groceries for the week after the flood. Her receipt and a photo of the groceries sit below.Open full size

  4. One report you can print

    A single report follows every gift from you, through DDI, to the people it reached. Print it or save it as a PDF.

    The donations report: $103 donated directly to the nonprofit with a $3.40 donation fee, $100 sent to recipients, $3 in transfer fees and nothing left unspent.Open full size

Sample screens with example data. Tracking needs a donor account, so a gift made as a guest is not tracked. It opens once a gift is delivered, and not every recipient leaves feedback.

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Questions about our finances

Direct Digital Impact is a nonprofit organization. If you have a question about how we raise or spend funds, email us at info@directdigitalimpact.org.

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