After the strongest storm in the island's memory, this is what one campaign did. Accounted to the cent.
Relief value raised and channeled · context total
US$0.12
Public GoFundMe €376,885.96× EUR/US$ 1.0828 = US$408,092.12+ Sol Relief-routed support US$115,000.00· shown separately from direct expenses
Led by Jeremie Tronet with the relief team and partners, the campaign became generators, solar power, food, water, shelter, tools and repaired homes on Union Island. The page keeps direct expenses, GoFundMe transfers, Sol Relief-routed support and in-kind impact visibly separate.
Direct fund accounted hereSol Relief separate supportPublic record 604 rows
What happened to the money
Five numbers tell the whole story.
Public GoFundMe total
€376,885.96
€349,095.96 donated online + €27,790.00 manually entered offline donations on GoFundMe. 2,635 GoFundMe donation records, plus 2 Sol Relief-routed support records listed separately on the donor wall.
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GoFundMe fees
€10,782.92
Platform and transaction fees shown by the GoFundMe transfer dashboard, kept separate from relief spending.
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Reached the direct fund
€366,143.10
GoFundMe transferred €338,353.10 plus €27,790.00 manually entered offline donations received directly; 97.1% of the public total reached direct relief after fees.
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Direct income estimate
US$396,459.75
GoFundMe transfer proof plus manually entered offline donations using the agreed relief-account FX rate.
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Public expense register
US$402,462.77
After fees, the direct fund was fully deployed. This is the public expense total used for the bridge.
Sol Relief-routed support is shown separately: US$115,000.00 total, made of a US$100k recovery lane and US$15k tool support. It is part of the wider relief effort, but not part of the direct expense accounting here.
Radical transparency
Every expense row, on the record.
533 included rows71 separate/reference rows
Each square is one of the 604 public expense rows in the published register. 533 are included rows within the canonical US$402,462.77 total. 578 invoice, proof and note index rows are referenced publicly without publishing personal data or account details.
The scale of it
Twelve months of relief, in numbers.
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Main relief projects
grouped from 158 public-safe records
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Donation/support records
2,635 GoFundMe donation records plus 2 Sol Relief-routed support records
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Public expense rows
566 carry project references
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Invoice / proof / note refs
held privately, indexed publicly
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Tool checkouts
5,455 borrower-days · 445 borrowers
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Continuous operation
Jul 2024 through 2025 · reconciled 2026·06
Where the direct fund went
US$402,462.77 of public expenses, by category.
Power, light and communications
47.9%
US$192,70947.9%
Food, water and meals
13.7%
US$54,97413.7%
Tools, clearing and rebuilding
8.3%
US$33,5738.3%
Emergency logistics
7.2%
US$28,7807.2%
Home repair and reconstruction
6.4%
US$25,9086.4%
Other direct programs
16.5%
US$66,51916.5%
Bars scaled to the largest category. Partner-managed and in-kind value excluded, nothing is counted twice.
Every donation, fee, transfer and receipt, on the public record.
This overview is the summary. The full record behind it: the income statement, the 604-row expense register, all project groups with their source records, the donor wall, and the notes to the accounts.