What each line means.
Count of active seats on the last day of the billing period, broken down by plan tier (Base / Max 5x / Max 20x). Prorated seats appear with the fractional charge in the itemized invoice; this statement shows the effective count. If you added or removed seats mid-cycle, the impact statement reflects seat-days, not headcount.
Calendar month, first day to last day. Statements are cut on the last calendar day and delivered the same day the monthly fund report is published — typically within 4 hours of month-end.
Sum of your organization's billed subscription lines for the period. Taxes (where applicable — sales tax for US customers, GST/HST for Canada) are on your invoice, not on this statement. The impact math is against the pre-tax amount.
The exact USD earmarked into LADLE's meal fund on your organization's behalf for the period. Calculated as sum of per-seat mealsPortion (Base $8, Max 5x $40, Max 20x $80) across your seat mix. This is not "up to" or "expected" — it is the amount actually reserved. Our future hunger-relief partner is the partner we select; the pooled fund ships as a real partner donation once the $50,000/year partnership threshold clears, and the partner's transfer confirmation lands on that month's fund report.
The USD earmarked divided by our working per-meal peg of $0.80. This is the number your team reserved in the meal fund for the period. If the working peg changes when the partner is announced, the divisor updates and this line reflects the new math on the day it takes effect. Reserved meals convert to funded meals via the partner we select once the $50,000/year partnership threshold clears.
The reference on the published monthly fund report at /impact/reports for the aggregate meal-fund entry that includes your organization's slice. Today this is LADLE's own report ID; once the $50,000/year partnership threshold clears, the corresponding partner reference is added alongside and remains verifiable by emailing the partner's donor support.
Sum of Meals reserved across every statement in the current calendar year for your organization. Resets January 1. Not audited — this is a rolling total from our billing system, not a certified financial reconciliation.
The category we categorize this contribution under: Social (S) — food security programs (via a meal fund pooling toward the partnership threshold). Explicitly not Environmental (E) — LADLE's mechanism earmarks meals; it does not offset carbon, reduce emissions, or make any environmental claim. Use this framing in your CSR report accordingly.
How the number on your statement lands on the published fund report.
The monthly meal-fund entry is a single aggregate across every LADLE subscriber and every organization on the business plan. Your statement is a slice: the portion of that aggregate that came from your organization’s seat mix. The reference on your statement matches the reference on the same month’s published fund report at /impact/reports. The pooled fund ships to the partner we select as a real donation once the $50,000/year partnership threshold clears — at which point a corresponding partner reference is added to that month’s report. An accountant reconciling from your side reads: (seats × per-seat portion) → your impact-statement USD → contributes to public monthly USD → verifiable fund report reference today, verifiable our future hunger-relief partner reference post-partnership.
Published fund reports. Not marketing claims.
Where this fits, and where it doesn’t.
Fits: social (S) disclosures in CSR/ESG reports. The monthly meal-fund earmark is a verifiable, reference-numbered contribution to a food-security program targeting our future hunger-relief partner as its formal partner — the pooled fund ships as a real partner donation once the $50,000/year partnership threshold clears, at which point third-party partner references populate the reports. Under GRI Standards, this maps to material topics under 203 (Indirect Economic Impacts) and community engagement. Under SASB, it is a Human Capital / community metric. Under an internal SDG scorecard, it points at SDG 2 (Zero Hunger). Cite the monthly USD contribution and the cumulative annual figure; link to the LADLE published fund reports as the substrate (with the caveat that partner-side receipts populate post-partnership).
Does not fit: environmental (E) disclosures. LADLE’s mechanism earmarks meals; it does not offset carbon, reduce emissions, or make any environmental claim. Do not cite this contribution in your Scope 1/2/3 accounting or in a carbon-neutrality narrative. If your framework asks for environmental impact from AI tooling spend, that is a separate calculation (inference-related energy use) that LADLE does not itself abate.
Does not fit: tax deduction for your organization. Your subscription is a business expense (deductible where local rules allow), but the meal-fund earmark is held and ultimately disbursed by LADLE, not by your organization. You cannot claim it as a charitable deduction. If deduction is the primary goal, donate directly to a hunger-relief charity of your choice — cleaner treatment. See /impact/tax for the full framing.
Three formats. Same data. Same reference.
Human-readable statement. Attach directly to your CSR/ESG PDF or upload to a compliance tool that ingests documents. Includes annotation of what the statement is and isn't.
Row-per-metric export for spreadsheet reconciliation. Column headers stable across periods; a spreadsheet formula on this month's file works on next month's without edit.
Machine-readable for direct import into ESG reporting tools, internal dashboards, or an audit-log system. Schema stable and documented; versioned when changed.
Reporting questions.
Every monthly fund report at /impact/reports is the aggregate meal-fund entry for the entire LADLE subscriber base for that month. Your organization's statement is a slice of that aggregate. The reference on your statement is the same one that appears on the published fund report; the pooled fund ships to the partner we select as a real donation once the $50,000/year partnership threshold clears, at which point a corresponding our future hunger-relief partner reference is added alongside and remains verifiable. Your per-org reconciliation is: sum of your seats' mealsPortion × 1 = your USD contribution to the month's public total.
Attach the statement to your next CSR report.
Email partnerships to get set up. First statement arrives at the end of your first billing month.