Where the money comes from
ServeGPT earns money from labeled ads on free answers and from ServeGPT Pro subscriptions. A fixed, published share of that revenue pays for meals through our charity partner, Feed My Starving Children. This is cause marketing: the meals come from our revenue. ServeGPT never asks you to donate, and paying for Pro isn't a donation.
The rate
Meals accrue at a published rate per qualifying message, set separately for free and Pro accounts, and Pro funds meals at a higher rate. Trial days count at the Pro rate. The current rate and its start date are shown on the Impact page. Until a rate is published, no meals accrue and the app says the rate is being finalized.
A monthly cap protects the business: if the meals accrued in a month would exceed that month's meal budget, every account's share is reduced in proportion, and the Impact page says so.
Funded versus pending
Each month we total the accrued meals, pay Feed My Starving Children, and attach the payment receipt to the ledger. The app calls meals "funded" only after they're paid. Meals accrued but not yet paid are shown as "pending".
Your number is an attribution: the meals your use helped fund. It's not a personal donation and can't be claimed for tax purposes.
Checking our work
The Impact page lists every payment with its date, the meals it covered, the amount and the receipt. We never show sample or estimated totals as real ones.
About the charity
Feed My Starving Children is an independent organization. Naming it doesn't mean it endorses ServeGPT. [Pending: the written agreement with the charity and the state commercial co-venturer registrations and disclosures that apply.]