Fund Transparency
What the Phoenix Fund is, what it supports, and how it stays accountable
This page explains what the Phoenix Fund is, what it supports, and how it is held accountable. The Phoenix Fund itself — where contributions are made — is the instrument this page describes; everything here is the explanation behind it.
The Phoenix Fund is the community fund of the whole movement: a perpetual, independent, public fund for community projects across the world. Its idea is the oldest and simplest there is — people pool their resources into a common source, and share it out, by their own choosing, to communities that need help. It first helps the movement find its feet, then continues and grows long after, as a standing source anyone may apply to.
It is funded by donations from the people. It is not a charity, and it is not run by a committee of trustees over the public’s head — it is the people’s own fund, kept in public view from the first penny to the last.
What the Phoenix Fund Supports
The Phoenix Fund puts resources directly into the hands of communities, as gifts and grants — given, not lent; not repaid, and never charged interest. It supports:
- grants and gifts for community projects worldwide — a standing source anyone may apply to;
- civic education and public understanding of self-governance;
- community initiatives that build on the Crowd-Device for public benefit;
- translation and accessibility, so the Charter and its tools reach every community in its own language;
- and the broader public-benefit mission of the movement.
What It Does Not Cover
The Phoenix Fund is the community fund, and only that. It does not run the platform or meet its operating costs — that is the Platform Fund. It does not fund the Phoenix Party (the Phoenix Party Fund), the inventor’s legal cases (the IP & Legal Fund), or commercial backing (the BizKit-Tin Fund — the people’s commercial fund). Each fund does one job, and only its own.
Where the Money Goes
Every flow into and out of the Phoenix Fund is recorded openly:
- In — donations from the public — the Fund’s own resource — pooled into a common source.
- Out — grants and gifts to community projects worldwide, given freely and not repaid.
- Also in — any annual surplus passed down from the Platform Fund, and — should the inventor choose — a share of his personal IP royalty, gifted in. Neither is relied upon; the Fund stands on donations.
- Kept separate — the Phoenix Fund is one of five strictly separated funds — distinct from the Platform Fund (operations), the Phoenix Party Fund (political), the IP & Legal Fund (legal cases), and the BizKit-Tin Fund (the people’s commercial fund). No money crosses between them, save the Platform Fund’s annual surplus and the Phoenix Party Fund’s residue on dissolution, both of which flow here.
A word on the IP royalties, so there is no confusion: when the Crowd-Device is licensed, two royalties are paid at source — one to the inventor, his by right, and one to the Phoenix Trust as owner of the IP. The Trust’s royalty funds the Platform Fund; the inventor’s is his own. Neither is the Phoenix Fund’s income. The Phoenix Fund is, and remains, the people’s donation fund.
Every contribution received and every grant made will be posted on the Phoenix Ledger, so the Fund can be read by anyone, at any time, in full.
Where to Contribute
This page sets out what the Fund is and what it does. Contributions themselves are made on the Phoenix Fund page, which goes live once the funding infrastructure is active.
A Public Commitment
Those who give are not investors and not customers. They are co-custodians of a global public good — building a perpetual community fund, owned by no one and answerable to everyone, that will outlast the movement that founded it and go on serving communities for generations.