Where your money goes.
Every dollar donated to Paws on Record pays an actual bill. No salaries, no marketing budget, no overhead. Here is the entire monthly run-rate of the registry — itemized, public, and updated whenever a number changes.
Every line item, every dollar.
Hosting & compute
Always-on backend (FastAPI + MongoDB), frontend CDN, automatic SSL, and the cron workers that keep the registry alive 24/7.
Custom domain + privacy WHOIS
pawsonrecord.com registration, DNS, and privacy proxy averaged over 12 months.
LLM news ingestor (Claude Sonnet 4.5)
Powers the twice-daily RSS scan that extracts new convictions from national + state animal-cruelty news feeds into your review queue. Token spend scales with how much we publish.
Database & backups
MongoDB storage for 298 abuser records, pending review queue, takedown requests, push subscribers, geo-cache, and rolling daily backups.
Web push notifications
Standards-based Web Push runs on free browser infrastructure (Mozilla/Google push services). We pay $0 to alert subscribers about new convictions in their state.
Image storage & og:image extraction
Caches and serves 87 booking/news photos for the convicted carousel. Auto-extracts new photos via a backend scraper when records are approved.
Legal & takedown reserve
Set aside monthly to fund any legal review of takedown requests or defamation challenges — we honor every legitimate correction, but we also defend the public record when it's accurate.
Transactional email (Resend)
Free tier covers the current volume of tipster thank-yous, sponsor receipts, and renewal reminders. We move to paid only when usage exceeds the free quota.
Zero overhead. Zero salaries. Zero ads.
- × No founder salary. The team works on this in evenings and weekends.
- × No paid advertising. Reach grows by word-of-mouth, partner shelters, and the Share buttons on every record.
- × No travel, swag, conferences, or consultants.
- × No commissions to fundraisers. Donations are processed directly via Stripe.
Pick a real bill to pay.
We don't ask you to fund a vague mission. We ask you to cover a specific cost on this page. Here's exactly what each tier does:
Pays for one full month of hosting + DNS for the entire registry.
Funds 50 new LLM news scans — that's enough to surface ~3 new convictions for the public review queue.
Covers a full month of every operating cost on this page. Single donors who hit this tier literally keep the lights on.
Funds a full quarter of operations + replenishes the legal takedown reserve so we can defend the public record if challenged.
298 convicted abusers tracked. Zero cost to shelters.
Every shelter, rescue, foster screener, and adopter in America can use this registry for free — because donors pay the bills above. If you can chip in even $113/mo, you literally keep the lights on for the entire country.