Budget
Where every dollar goes.
The full year-one budget. Every sponsor and donor on this site funds a line on this page. We publish the actuals in the annual Impact Report; this is what the plan looks like before we cash a single check.
Last reviewed: April 2026
Year-one budget
Total target for year one: $50,000. No paid staff. Volunteer board. Every line below is a real expense category — not an aspirational round number.
| Infrastructure — hosting, email, storage, monitoring | $8,000 |
| Ten state ambassadors — events, materials, expense reimbursements | $15,000 |
| First 1,000 printed certs & outreach kits mailed | $7,000 |
| Content engine — 10 cornerstone articles, EN + SQ | $8,000 |
| Legal, compliance, 990 preparation | $5,000 |
| Reserve & buffer | $7,000 |
| Year-one total | $50,000 |
Numbers are the year-one plan as of April 2026. They will move as actual costs come in. Year-end actuals are published in the Impact Report.
What each sponsor tier funds
Sponsorships go into a pooled budget; we don't earmark a specific dollar to a specific line. The mapping below is the most-likely allocation given the year-one plan, not a binding promise. If a tier is oversubscribed, the surplus rolls into reserve.
$10,000 founding sponsor
67% of the year-one ambassador program ($10,000 of the $15,000 line) — or proportionally distributed across infrastructure, content, and ambassador ops at the board's discretion.
$5,000 gold
One full quarter of the ambassador program plus the printed registration cards we hand out at community events.
$2,500 silver
The Albanian-language print run for year one ($2,500 of the $8,000 content line), plus a state's worth of community-event tables.
$1,000 bronze
A year of core infrastructure (email, hosting, monitoring) plus the eagle banner and one Saturday booth at a major Albanian-American gathering.
$300 community
A single community event — printed cards, the eagle banner, and the volunteer who hands them out.
What we don't spend on
- Paid staff. The board is unpaid. Year-one budget assumes zero salaries.
- Paid advertising. Growth is organic — community referrals, ambassador networks, content. Sponsorship dollars don't go to Meta or Google ads.
- Data resale or marketing partnerships. NAR doesn't sell registrant data. The registry generates zero revenue from the people on it.
- Lobbying or political contributions. 501(c)(3) status forbids it; we wouldn't anyway.
Want the full receipts trail? Once year-one closes, every line above gets a published actual. Email [email protected] to be on the list for the Impact Report.