Get involved

The smallest thing you can do.

Sign up. Tell one person. Read the trust deed when it’s published and tell us if it doesn’t pass your test. The Foundation grows by recommendation, the way Wikipedia grew.

Contribute time, code, or attention.

Tell us what you can offer. We’ll write back — in person, on a human timeline — with a fit and a first task.

Donate.

The 501(c)(3) determination has not yet issued. Until it does, your donation will not be tax-deductible. Once it issues, this section becomes the canonical donation page, with options for one-time, recurring, and major gifts, and a separate path for crypto rails.

If you might be an anchor donor — a founding gift in the range of five to fifty million dollars — we should talk. The category of donor that most determines a foundation’s first five years is exactly this one. Signal received a fifty-million-dollar founding loan from Brian Acton in 2018, and it changed everything that came after. The Foundation has not yet found its anchor donor.

Anchor donors are not buying anything; the trust deed prevents directional control in exchange for money. Anchor donors are doing something: making it possible for an institution to exist that would otherwise not exist.

To start that conversation, reach the founder directly:

Reach John David Marx →

The closing line.

The cynicism that has kept thoughtful people on the sidelines for the past twenty years is not wrong about the world as it has been. It is wrong about the world as it could be. The difference between the two is mostly a matter of who shows up.

We hope you show up.

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