{
  "schema": "values-commons-funding-ledger-v1",
  "lastReviewed": "2026-07-04",
  "project": {
    "name": "Values Commons",
    "referenceInstance": "Conscious Consuming",
    "standard": "Open Values Standard",
    "maintainer": "Bentley Moon"
  },
  "policy": {
    "purpose": "Record external grants and donations accepted by the project, and make the independence rules inspectable before money is accepted.",
    "independenceLine": "No funder may buy ranking placement, coverage, scoring treatment, source treatment, guide copy, endorsements, user data, private analytics, or roadmap control.",
    "noStringsAttestation": "Accepted support may fund time, outreach, validation, documentation, hosting, and public-interest maintenance only. It cannot influence facts, scores, ranking order, category inclusion, app copy, or user data access.",
    "publishedCaps": [
      {
        "kind": "rated_entity_or_affiliate",
        "capUsd": 0,
        "period": "ever",
        "rule": "Decline money from any brand, platform, product maker, service provider, fund, charity, or affiliate that is rated or likely to be rated by a Values Commons lens."
      },
      {
        "kind": "conditional_or_rank_influencing_money",
        "capUsd": 0,
        "period": "ever",
        "rule": "Decline any money conditioned on coverage, ranking, score changes, source treatment, guide wording, data access, private reporting, or roadmap control."
      },
      {
        "kind": "single_unrestricted_grant_or_donation",
        "capUsd": 35000,
        "period": "rolling_12_months",
        "rule": "Amounts above this cap must be declined or recorded as a public pledge before acceptance, with the reason and independence terms visible in this ledger."
      }
    ],
    "requiredEntryFields": [
      "id",
      "funder.name",
      "funder.type",
      "amount.value",
      "amount.currency",
      "receivedAt",
      "purpose",
      "noStringsAttestation",
      "relationshipToRatedEntities",
      "sourceUrl"
    ]
  },
  "whoFundsUsLens": {
    "status": "deferred",
    "reason": "No external funder entries are recorded in this repository snapshot, so a scored who-funds-us lens would invent data. Missing means omit until real accepted funders exist."
  },
  "entries": [],
  "limitations": [
    "This ledger records external grants and donations accepted by the project. It is not a personal expense ledger.",
    "An empty entries array means no external grants or donations are recorded in this repository snapshot; it is not a claim about future funding."
  ]
}