Financial Transparency
Where every
dollar goes.
We founded Ripple Affect in 2025 because we believed the organizations trying to expand sport access owed donors the full truth about how their money is used.
Where We Stand
We're in year one —
and honest about it.
Ripple Affect was founded in 2025. We are early. We haven't yet raised the funds that would make a financial report meaningful, and presenting invented allocation charts or placeholder percentages would be exactly the kind of misleading behaviour we're committed to never doing.
What we do have is a clear philosophy about how money should flow through an organization like ours, a data-driven approach to deciding where it goes, and a set of concrete commitments about what we'll publish once we have real dollars to account for.
This page is that philosophy. It's our promise, in writing, before a single dollar has been raised.
Our Commitment
What we've committed
to publishing.
These aren't aspirational — they are the specific things we will publish, in the specific formats listed, on the schedule shown further down this page. Hold us to them.
Spending Philosophy
How we think
about money.
We don't have real percentages to publish yet — and fabricating them would be dishonest. What we have is a clear set of priorities that will govern every spending decision we make, in order of importance.
The primary purpose of every dollar raised is to put elite athlete experience into the communities that need it. Before any other consideration, we ask: does this spending directly serve a young athlete or a community? If not, it has to justify itself against that standard.
The athletes who power our mission give their time, expertise, and stories. We believe this should be compensated — not as an afterthought, but as a reflection of how seriously we take their contribution. Unsustainable volunteerism is not a model we will rely on.
Programs don't run in a vacuum. Building authentic relationships with local organizations, schools, and partners requires real investment. Underfunding this work is how nonprofits burn out the communities they claim to serve. We will not do that.
Running a credible, growing nonprofit requires infrastructure — staff, legal, accounting, technology. We are committed to keeping this as lean as responsible management allows, but we won't underfund operations just to make an overhead ratio look good on paper.
How We Decide
Data drives where
our money goes.
Deciding where to invest donor money is one of the most consequential things a nonprofit does. We refuse to make those decisions based on gut feel, relationships, or what looks good on a press release.
Before we enter a community, we research it. Before we run a program, we define what success looks like and how we'll measure it. After we leave, we track outcomes — and use what we learn to make every future investment sharper.
This isn't just good practice. It's what we owe every donor who puts their trust in us.
How we make investment decisions
What we measure to gauge impact
Reporting Roadmap
When you'll see
the numbers.
Here is the exact schedule of what we've committed to publishing — not aspirational milestones, but actual deliverables with actual dates.
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