Impact / Annual report
Our year, in the open.
- Cadence
- Annual, fiscal-year aligned
- First report
- 2027 (for fiscal year 2026–27)
- Format
- Long-form PDF and web
- Audit
- Independent, beginning year two
The commitment.
The Foundation will publish an annual report every year it operates. The first one lands at the close of our first full fiscal year. It will be an honest document, in long form, and it will be public on this page for as long as the Foundation exists.
The report does two things at once. It satisfies the transparency standard we owe our donors, members, and the public as a 501(c)(3). And it forces us to be clear, in one place, about whether the Foundation met the commitments it made a year earlier.
What the report will contain.
Each annual report is structured as a single document with consistent sections, so readers can compare one year against the next. The structure below is the starting template. It will evolve as the Foundation learns what is worth reporting.
Financials in full.
Revenue by source, expenses by program, balance sheet, cash position, executive compensation ranges, and the full Form 990 filing.
Program scope.
What we built, what we launched, what we retired. Users and communities served, aggregated and anonymized. Countries in which the Foundation operated.
Outcomes.
Wellbeing outcome indices, with methodology. Connection-formation data. Community-participation data. Third-party research produced or supported, with citations.
Governance changes.
Board changes, advisor changes, committee appointments, conflicts of interest declared and addressed, charter amendments, and any partnership the Foundation ended.
Failures.
Plans that did not land. Commitments we missed. Features we pulled. Lessons that cost us something. Not hidden in an appendix.
The year ahead.
What we intend to build, what we intend to measure, what we intend to change. Readers can hold next year's report to this one.
Why annual, not quarterly.
The Foundation measures outcomes that take years to move. Loneliness does not thin in a quarter. Relationships do not deepen on a fiscal calendar. A quarterly report would pressure us to declare wins early, or to reach for operational numbers when real outcomes are not yet visible. We would rather be patient, in writing, and publish less.
Daily or event-driven dashboards exist for the operational work the Foundation does. They stay internal. The public reporting surface is the annual report, and it moves at the pace a year moves.
What the report will not contain.
There is a familiar shape to nonprofit annual reports, and parts of that shape are not for us. We will not use this document as a marketing piece, and we will not use it to celebrate the wrong things.
No vanity metrics.
No install counts presented as impact. No social-media follower totals. No press-mention count. These are operational, if they are useful at all.
No engagement numbers.
No daily active users. No session lengths. No retention curves. The Foundation does not measure its success in minutes consumed.
No photo-carousel gloss.
The report is a document, not a brochure. Photographs appear where they accompany a story the subject consented to.
No board-member flattery.
Directors are named and credited with their actual work. Hagiographies are not helpful to anyone.
Archive.
Every report stays up, in the same place, indefinitely. When the first report publishes, it will replace the placeholder row below. Future years are listed so the shape of the archive is visible from day one.
- 2027Forthcoming
Year one report
In preparation. Publishes at the end of fiscal year 2027.
- 2028Forthcoming
Year two report
Planned. First independent financial audit included.
- 2029Forthcoming
Year three report
Planned.
The first report publishes in 2027, covering fiscal year 2026–27. Published reports will replace these placeholder rows as they land.
The financials, first.
Until the first annual report publishes, the interim financials and governance documents live on the transparency pages.