Where the money lands.
LADLE donates monthly to the UN World Food Programme via ShareTheMeal, WFP’s per-meal donation platform. This page explains why, how the money flows, and how to independently verify any receipt.
Scale, per-meal transparency, receipts.
WFP is the largest humanitarian food organization in the world, with the operational scale to spend our donations on food quickly. ShareTheMeal publishes a specific per-meal cost we peg to, and every donation returns a reference number we can verify.
Your $8 to a WFP meal, tracked end-to-end.
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Stripe processes your subscription
Charge clears on your billing date.
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We split the ledger
$8 (or $40 / $80 for higher tiers) is earmarked in a separate meal-committed ledger.
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End-of-month batch
We sum the meal-committed ledger across every active subscription.
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Transfer to ShareTheMeal
One aggregate donation via their public donation API.
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Reference number returned
Usually within 30 minutes. Published to /impact the same day.
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WFP spends the money
Meals delivered through WFP's operational network across 120+ countries and territories.
Email ShareTheMeal with a reference number.
Every donation entry on /impact has a reference number in the form '4471-A'. To verify, email donations@sharethemeal.org with the reference. They confirm the amount, meal count, and date. No LADLE authorization needed.
If a verification comes back mismatched, please tell us — that would be either our data-entry error (which we’d fix with a correction note on the ledger) or a ShareTheMeal-side issue we’d resolve with them. Neither has happened.
No photos of beneficiaries. Deliberate.
You won’t find photographs of people receiving food anywhere on LADLE’s site. Aid imagery in donor marketing has an extensive ethical literature — beneficiary dignity, consent, and the risk of “disaster porn’s trade” are all real. We stick to abstract plate glyphs and mono numbers. If you want to see WFP’s operational context, visit wfp.org.
One partner. One receipt. Every month.
Verify any donation directly with ShareTheMeal donor support.