Trust and governance

Charitable support stays charitable.

Global Mission Support is built to keep community access, donor funds, and commercial activity clearly separated — and to show donors exactly how their support is used and safeguarded.

The boundary, stated plainly

Global Mission Support is the nonprofit deployment partner in a deliberately separated structure. Donor funds fund charitable programs only. They do not subsidize commercial product development, commercial sales activity, or investor returns. A separate commercial company handles all paid work; the nonprofit does not sell enterprise consulting or run paid software.

How we safeguard donor funds

  • Separate accounting and bank accounts for charitable, commercial, and any anonymized-benchmark uses, with donor-fund restrictions honored.
  • Board-approved program budgets and restricted-fund accounting, with charitable impact reporting kept separate from any commercial reporting.
  • An independent board and a written conflict-of-interest policy. Because the founder is connected to each entity, the founder is recused from related-party votes and arm’s-length terms are documented.
  • A royalty-free, restricted charitable-use license for the approved Community Edition content — the nonprofit never pays the founder’s holding company to carry out charitable work.

How we handle data

Only anonymized, consent-based, aggregate impact data may ever inform improvement of the underlying framework — and only under documented data-sharing rules, independent board approval, and participant consent. No personally identifiable information from charitable participants is used for commercial purposes. Volunteers facilitate charitable programs only and are never used as unpaid commercial labor.

How the Fund is supported

Charitable work is funded through the Leadership Access Fund, beginning with the Founding 20 at $5,000 a year toward a Year-One base target of $100,000. Every charitable dollar is restricted, accounted for separately, and reported back to supporters through cohort updates and participant impact reports.

Documents and disclosures

  • Recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 47-2916876); determination letter available upon request
  • EIN: 47-2916876
  • Form 990: none filed yet — as a first-year organization with minimal receipts, we have not been required to file a Form 990; filings are available upon request once filed.
  • Annual / impact report: available upon request
  • State charitable-solicitation registrations: available upon request
  • Canadian nonprofit registration: in progress.
Status, honestly: we are in our first program year. Engaging nonprofit-tax counsel on our structure is a named near-term milestone, and several disclosures above will be linked as they are completed. We would rather show the scaffolding than overstate the finish.