Reading a monthly receipt.

The receipts live at /impact/reports. Every month has a document. Here's how to read the fields.

**Month + reference number.** The reference number is issued by ShareTheMeal (WFP's partner platform we donate through). Format is usually a 4-digit prefix + a letter, e.g. "4471-A". You can cross-verify by looking up the reference number on ShareTheMeal's own transparency reports.

**Total meals funded.** The count of meals the aggregated LADLE donation bought that month. This is meals funded, not meals served — WFP handles distribution on their timeline. The floor is (subscriber count × 10 meals × months paid), which annual subscribers pull forward into their invoice month.

**Total USD to WFP.** Raw dollar amount transferred. It's total meals × $0.80, with small rounding for regional per-meal price variation.

**Batch number.** WFP aggregates our donations into batches for operational efficiency (one wire transfer per batch instead of thousands). Same batch number appears on both our side and WFP's.

**Per-plan breakdown.** How many meals came from Base subscribers, Max 5x, Max 20x, and gift subscriptions. Verifies the plan mix and per-plan meal count (10 / 50 / 100 monthly, 100 / 500 / 1000 annual). No per-user detail — that'd be a privacy violation.

**How to verify.** Look up the reference number on ShareTheMeal (sharethemeal.org, their WFP report section). If the counts don't reconcile, something is wrong on our end and we owe you an explanation. Never happened; the escape hatch is documented in /impact/methodology.

If we can't publish a receipt on time in a given month, we say so in the changelog with the reason.