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Where the Money Goes

UPDATED 30 SEPTEMBER 2026 · PROJECT NO MORE
Figures on this page are approximate and are published for transparency, not as an audited or legal financial statement. Project No More is a volunteer run nonprofit with no paid staff. Operating costs are grouped by category rather than itemised, and individual transactions are not published. Amounts that crossed borders or currencies lost a little to transfer fees and exchange rates along the way, so totals will not reconcile to the cent.
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Operating Costs

What it costs to keep the work running each month.

Infrastructure
Servers, the domain, and the protective layer that sits in front of the public site. This is the largest ongoing cost and the least optional one. Running our own infrastructure is what keeps the tip line, the evidence archive, and the onion mirror under our control rather than a platform's.
Origin server~$60 / mo
Protective proxy~$17 / mo
Domain registration~$15 / yr
Subtotal~$78 / mo
Communications & Mail
Encrypted email for the team and for tip line correspondence, plus the registered business address the state requires a nonprofit to maintain.
Encrypted email and storage~$30 / mo
Registered address service~$10 / mo
Subtotal~$40 / mo
Legal & Compliance
State filings that keep the nonprofit in good standing in Washington. These are small and infrequent, but missing one puts the organization at risk of administrative dissolution, so they are tracked as carefully as anything else.
State annual report~$20 / yr
State initial report~$10 one time
Subtotal~$2 / mo
Total operating cost ~$119.90 / month
Roughly, per year ~$1,438.80

Projects

Funded campaigns run by Project No More, and what happened to the money.

The Atlanta Billboard
A public fundraiser paid for a billboard in Atlanta reading END CHINA'S CAT TORTURE INDUSTRY, with Monica's photo beside it. It went up on August 3, 2026. The campaign raised more than the billboard cost, and most of the surplus went straight back out the door as a donation to Cai Zhen's cat rescue in China. What was left after transfer fees and currency conversion came to roughly $107, and that amount went into the organization's account. Every figure below was posted publicly on the campaign page as it happened.
Raised by the campaign$5,724
Billboard, final cost$5,150
Surplus donated onward, July 17, 2026643.00 AUD
Recipient of that donationSaving cat lives in China
Lost to transfer fees and conversionnot recovered
Remaining, moved to held funds~$107
The Washington Truck
A campaign truck carrying our video and poster drove through Washington, D.C. for eight hours on September 24, 2026, the day the White House welcomed Xi Jinping for his state visit. It started on Constitution Avenue, made stops around the White House, and parked outside the Embassy of the People's Republic of China. The truck and its driver were hired from DC Mobile Advertising for the day at $1,600, paid for by donors through PayPal and Buy Me a Coffee and topped up from funds the organization already held. Anything left over went back into the organization's account.
Truck and driver, one day$1,600
Paid for bydonors and held funds
Where donations came inPayPal, Buy Me a Coffee
Anything left overback in held funds

Funds We Hold

What happens to money that is not spent yet.

Money left over from a campaign sits in the organization's bank account until it has somewhere to go. There are three places it can end up, and no others. It can fund the next large project, the way the billboard and the Washington truck were funded. It can be donated onward to a rescue or organization doing work we want to support, which is what happened with most of the billboard surplus. Or it can cover the operating costs listed above, which are what keep the site, the tip line, and the evidence archive running month to month.
As of September 30, 2026, the organization's account holds about $1,100. Nothing in it is currently earmarked. When a decision is made about where held funds go, it will be recorded on this page. No one at Project No More draws a salary, a stipend, or reimbursement from these funds, and the organization has no paid staff.
Sources
GoFundMe: End Cat Torture: Support Our Billboard Campaign
Project No More: The Billboard Is Up (August 4, 2026)
Project No More: The Billboard (June 27, 2026)
Project No More: Eight Hours in Washington (September 26, 2026)
DC Mobile Advertising: dcmobileadvertising.com
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