Verify a fund report yourself.

Today (pre-partnership): every entry on the Impact page and every monthly fund report shows the balance held in the meal fund, the amount added that month, cumulative meals reserved at the partner's $0.80/meal peg, and progress toward the $50,000/year threshold that unlocks a formal partnership with the hunger-relief charity we select. You can cross-check the math yourself: active subscriber count × $8 earmark should reconcile against the "added this month" number, within the small variance from mid-cycle cancellations and refunds. If it doesn't, tell us.

Post-partnership (once the $50,000/year threshold clears): every ledger entry will carry a partner-issued reference number in the form of something like "4471-A". To verify a specific reference independently, you'll be able to email the partner's donor support at the partner's donor support, include the reference, and ask them to confirm the amount, meal count, and date. They will respond directly. No LADLE account or authorization needed on your end.

Until then, the "reference number" column on the ledger reads "pending — will populate once the partnership with the hunger-relief charity we select activates." That's a design choice, not an omission: we don't want to invent a reference that doesn't exist yet.

If a verification ever comes back mismatched — either today against our own math, or post-partnership against the partner's confirmation — please tell us immediately. That would be either a data-entry error on our side (which we'd fix and re-publish with a correction note) or a platform-side issue (which we'd resolve upstream). The whole system is designed to make it obvious if it did.

We do not publish the names of any specific subscribers on the public ledger — earmarks are aggregated per month. If you want to verify that your specific subscription contributed to a specific fund report, that's what your personal My Table ledger inside the product shows, tied to the same monthly reports.