We are not taking donations yet.

When giving opens you will be able to say where your money should go — schools, nonprofits, a particular region, or an organisation you already know needs it. Most people give more readily when they can see the thing at the other end, and that is a reasonable way to want to give.

Recorded as a preference, not a restriction

We will follow what you ask for wherever we can. What we will not do is take money that is legally tied to one named recipient, because a gift earmarked to pass straight through to an organisation we have already picked out stops counting as a gift to us at all — it becomes a gift to them, routed through our bank account. That causes problems for the entity we are forming and for the receipt you would eventually want.

There are practical reasons too. The organisation you name may:

• already have been funded by someone else that cycle
• turn out not to meet the criteria
• simply say no — plenty of organisations do

Money that can only go to one place, when that place is closed, does nobody any good. Keeping final discretion means your gift still does something.

Setting out an area or category in detail

The form above takes a short answer. If you want to describe the area, sector or region you care about properly — or you are giving enough that the detail matters — write to hello@irabu.org and it will be attached to your record. A paragraph is fine.

We are not able to show you a list of recipient organisations to choose from, because there are not any yet. The programme has not started. When it has, this section will say how the choice actually works rather than how we intend it to.

Plenty of pre-launch projects put a donate button up and sort the paperwork out later. Here is why we are not.

• There is no entity to receive it.A donation would land in a commercial company’s bank account. It would be revenue, not a gift, whatever the button said.
• We could not give you a proper receipt. No registration means no charitable receipt, in any jurisdiction.
• Nothing you gave would be tax-deductible, and a page that implies otherwise is a regulated misstatement, not a marketing choice.
• The programme does not need it to start. It is funded by the commercial business. Donations would let it grow faster; their absence does not stop it.

Foundations, multilaterals and corporate giving programmes usually want to understand a model well before there is anything to sign. That conversation can happen now.

What we can share today:

• The eligibility rules and how decisions are made.
• The unit economics — what a licence actually costs us to give away, and therefore what a given amount of funding buys.
• The measurement plan: what we intend to count, how, and what we will refuse to claim.
• The conflict-of-interest position between the programme and the commercial business, written down. See it here.

What we cannot share: impact figures, beneficiary counts or case studies. We do not have them, and we would rather lose a conversation than invent one.