MPGF funding terms.

Current payment posture

External providers remain the payment source of truth

Project funding must use an approved fiscal sponsor or another legally approved external provider. Native Stripe checkout remains disabled until entity, sponsor, terms, refund, webhook, recipient, and compliance gates pass. MPGF records contribution state only from verified provider events or reviewed evidence.

A direct-to-charity gift is recorded in MPGF only after an Every.org provider event or reviewed evidence confirms the transaction. A redirect or success page is not final payment confirmation.

Fiscal sponsorship

No sponsor-backed project route is active

Moral Trade is not accepting funds for its own operations. A contribution button for project support remains unavailable until a sponsor contract and all required public disclosures are configured.

Disclaimers

No tax, escrow, or outcome guarantee

• This page does not provide tax, legal, financial, or investment advice.
• Unless this page explicitly says otherwise using legally approved wording, MPGF contributions are not represented as tax-deductible donations.
• Unless this page explicitly says otherwise using legally approved wording, MPGF is not representing that funds are held in legal escrow.
• MPGF does not guarantee outcomes or effectiveness. Public summaries describe the mechanism's records and assessments, not guaranteed impact.

Manual evidence

External payments require review

Manual evidence mode remains the fallback when Every.org, a fiscal sponsor, or another approved external provider cannot import a contribution. Submitting evidence starts review; it does not move money or count as a verified MPGF contribution until review approves it.

Every.org, fiscal-sponsor, bank-transfer, PayPal, or other external evidence is treated as participant-submitted evidence until an MPGF reviewer verifies destination, amount, timing, and policy fit.

Refunds

The provider or sponsor controls the refund process

Refund availability depends on the external provider or fiscal sponsor, transaction status, applicable law, and the policy disclosed at payment. MPGF can record a refund state but cannot promise or execute a refund for funds it never held.

Payout gates

Allocation is separate from disbursement

Real-money MPGF contributions are not represented as tax-deductible, escrowed, or guaranteed-effective unless legally approved copy explicitly says so. Allocation and disbursement remain separate MPGF records and payout/compliance gates.

Recipient accreditation, compliance review, payout approval, and external disbursement evidence must pass before a payment is represented as complete.

Compliance screening

AML, KYC, KYB, sanctions, and charity-law checks remain external gates

The custody, receipt, and payout partner must perform the screening required for its role and jurisdiction. Moral Trade records readiness and provider-event state only; it does not convert compliance outcomes into moral reputation signals.

Recurring support

Monthly project support is disabled until a sponsor approves the route

A monthly pledge in MPGF is not a subscription or charge. Recurring project support becomes available only through a sponsor-approved external contribution page whose cancellation and refund terms are displayed before payment.

Privacy

Public summaries are filtered

Some MPGF records may appear in public summaries after privacy filtering. Private payment identifiers, verification evidence, private ballot identities, private appeal evidence, and private audit evidence are not public by default.