The tax page nobody else would publish.

Your LADLE subscription is not a tax-deductible charitable donation. LADLE holds a meal fund and ships it as a donation to the partner we select once the $50,000/year partnership threshold clears; you buy a subscription from LADLE. If a deduction is what you’re optimizing for, donating directly to the partner we select is more efficient — and we recommend you do that instead.

The donation is efficient because it happens once, at scale.

LADLE receives subscription revenue as a Canadian sole proprietorship. Aggregated meal-fund donations to the partner we select — released once the $50,000/year partnership threshold clears — generate a Canadian charitable-donation credit at the personal-tax level in the year the donation lands. Individual subscribers, in contrast, are buying a service — the tax treatment on your side is the same as any other subscription, regardless of the fund state.

This is the operating shape that allows LADLE to commit $8 of every $20 subscription to the meal fund. If subscribers each tried to claim personal donation deductions, the tax authority would (correctly) disallow them — because the transaction from your perspective was “buy subscription,” not “make donation.” The intermediary structure is deliberate.

Same target charity, different tax and different economics.

If your only goal is to fund meals with tax-efficient dollars, donate directly to a registered hunger-relief charity of your choice and use whatever AI tool fits your workflow. If you’re paying $20 for an AI subscription anyway, LADLE earmarks $8 of that in a meal fund pooling toward a real partnership with the hunger-relief charity we select — that’s the whole pitch. We only make sense for people whose AI spend is going to happen either way.