The pledge · where every dollar goes

We take nothing. The family takes everything.

This campaign exists for one reason: to get money to the parents of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji — who spent themselves into debt trying to get the truth about how their son died. Every dollar of profit from the store — every cent left after the printer and the card processor are paid — goes to his mother's own verified GoFundMe. The operator of this site keeps $0. Below is exactly how that works, and the receipts to prove it.

$0
Kept by this site · forever
100%
Of profit → Balaji's family
Section 01 — Two ways to help

Want 100% to reach them?
Give the family directly.

The cleanest dollar is the one that never passes through anyone else's hands. If you just want to help the family, skip the merch and donate straight to their own fund. The store is for people who also want to wear the message — and its profit lands in the exact same place.

OPTION A · 100% · zero middleman

Donate to the family's GoFundMe

“Justice for Suchir Balaji,” organized by his mother Poornima Ramarao, funds the independent investigation into his death — digital forensics, an independent autopsy, witness interviews, and legal costs. Your money goes to the family, not to us. It's protected by GoFundMe's Giving Guarantee, and every donation is listed publicly on the campaign page.

Give on GoFundMe →
Verified family fundraiser · goal $500,000
OPTION B · profit donated · receipts posted

Buy the merch, fund the family

Wear the argument and fund the family at the same time. We price each item just above what the printer and the payment processor charge. Every dollar of that margin is donated into the same GoFundMe above — in our name, on the public donor list — and logged in the ledger on this page after each payout.

Wear it, fund them →
Profit after costs → the family
Section 02 — How the money moves

No black box.
Four steps, start to finish.

Most “proceeds go to charity” promises are a slogan with no proof behind them. This one is built to be checked. Here is the whole path a dollar takes.

1
You buy an item

You pay the retail price at checkout. The print-on-demand provider makes the product to order — there's no inventory and no markup hidden in a warehouse.

2
Real costs come out

The printer's production cost and the card processor's fee are deducted. Those are the only deductions. We add no salary, no “admin fee,” no cut for ourselves.

3
We donate the rest

What's left — the profit — is donated into the family's GoFundMe under this campaign's name, so it appears on the public donor list anyone can scroll.

4
We post the receipt

Each donation is added to the public ledger below, with the amount and a link to the GoFundMe record. You never have to take our word for it.

Section 03 — What “after costs” actually means

We spell out every
deduction. On purpose.

Vague words like “proceeds” or “profits” are how shady fundraisers hide the ball — consumer-protection regulators and the BBB's giving standards both warn against exactly that language. So here is the literal math on a representative item, with nothing left implied.

Retail price example: the Receipts Over Vibes tee
$29.00
− Printing / production cost paid to the print-on-demand provider
− ~$13.00
− Payment processing card / checkout fee, ~2.9% + $0.30
− ~$1.14
− Kept by this site
$0.00
= Donated to Balaji's family
≈ $14.86

Exact numbers vary by product and order (international cards cost a little more, sale prices a little less), so the ledger below records the real figures from each payout rather than these estimates. The rule never changes: after the printer and the processor, everything goes to the family and nothing stays here.

Section 04 — The public ledger

The receipts.
Updated after every payout.

This is the proof. As the store earns and we donate, each transfer is logged here with the amount and a link to the GoFundMe record. Nothing to hide, nothing to take on faith.

Date Period / drop Units Gross revenue Printing + fees Donated to family Receipt
Status as of June 30, 2026: the store is live. The first ledger row will appear after the first Fourthwall payout clears and the matching GoFundMe donation is posted — with the real revenue, the real costs, and a link to the GoFundMe donation record. Until then, the most direct way to help is the family's GoFundMe.

// Store live; first payout update pending. Each update will show total raised by the store → total donated → remaining held. The target never moves — $0 held by the next payout cycle. Every line links to a verifiable GoFundMe donation receipt.

Section 05 — Why you can trust this

Built so a skeptic
can check it.

You should be skeptical of anyone collecting money in a dead man's name — the internet is full of people who aren't honest about it. So here is why this one holds up.

The money lands in the family's own fund

We donate into the GoFundMe organized by Suchir's mother — we don't run our own pool that you have to trust us to forward. The destination is hers, not ours.

Every donation is public

GoFundMe lists donors and amounts on the campaign page. Our store donations show up on that same public list, so the ledger here can be cross-checked against GoFundMe itself.

GoFundMe's Giving Guarantee

The family's campaign is covered by GoFundMe's donor protection. That's a layer of accountability we don't control and can't fake.

Independently corroborated

The National Whistleblower Center's profile of Poornima Ramarao links the same GoFundMe, confirming it's the genuine family fundraiser — not an impostor page. See it →

We name every cost

No vague “proceeds.” We list printing and processing as the only deductions and keep $0 — the standard honest cause-marketing is supposed to meet.

You can skip us entirely

If you'd rather no middleman touch a cent, give straight to the GoFundMe. We'd genuinely rather you do that than not give at all.

Section 06 — Don't get scammed in his name

One fund is real.
Watch out for the rest.

When a story gets attention, scammers move in fast — especially with crypto. Protect your money and the family's name.

  • REAL: the GoFundMe at gofundme.com/f/justice-for-suchir-balaji, organized by Poornima Ramarao. Look for her name and the Giving Guarantee badge.
  • × BE SKEPTICAL: crypto wallets, “SUCHIR” meme coins, and token fundraisers using his name. Reporting indicates these were launched by people in the crypto community, not confirmed as controlled by the family — and one such coin crashed ~99%. Treat every one of them as unverified.
  • × NEVER send money through a link from a random social post. Type gofundme.com into your browser yourself and search the campaign name.
The bottom line

Help the family get the truth.

Whether you buy a shirt or give a dollar directly, it ends up in the same place: with the people trying to find out what really happened to Suchir Balaji.

Give to the family directly →