Legal and Disclosure
A charitable gift, disclosed with full honesty.
A Founding Family commitment is a charitable gift, not a securities offering. This page sets out why that determination holds, the disclosures every giving surface carries, how gifts are received and receipted by jurisdiction, and the confidentiality that governs the materials. It is written to be read in full, not buried in a footer.
The Three Disclaimers
What every giving surface states plainly
Three disclosures travel with every page that discusses giving. They are prominent by design, because the clarity is the point.
A donation, not an investment
A Founding Family commitment is a charitable gift to Million Peacemakers. It is not an investment. It carries no financial return, no equity, and no expectation of profit. Tax treatment depends on your jurisdiction and your own advisors.
No financial return
There is no return of capital, yield, dividend, or profit to the donor in connection with a gift. Any reference to leverage or multiplier describes impact per euro, lives a method can reach, never a financial return on the donor’s money.
Forward-looking statements
Statements about future reach, milestones, and outcomes, including the 2035 goal and the multi-year trajectory, are forward-looking projections based on current plans and assumptions. They are goals, not guarantees, and actual results will differ. Coalition reach figures describe networks the coalition is building access to, not a present count of people reached.
The Determination
Why a gift is not a security
The controlling question is not which exemption applies, but whether a security is offered at all. Walked against the four-prong investment-contract test, the gift fails the dispositive prong. A donor has no contractual or reasonably expected financial return, and the materials affirmatively negate one.
| Prong | Present here? | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
| Investment of money | Yes | The donor makes a gift of a defined amount in euros. |
| Common enterprise | Arguable | Funds are pooled toward a charitable program. Pooling toward a charitable purpose is not the profit-seeking common enterprise the test contemplates. |
| Expectation of profits | No | This is the dispositive prong. A charitable gift, by definition, lacks profit expectation. The materials affirmatively negate any return, and the technology is delivered free to coalition partners. |
| Profits from the efforts of others | Not engaged | Without an expectation of profits, this prong does not engage. The test is conjunctive, so the failure of the profit prong is decisive. |
The determination. As structured, a Founding Family commitment is a charitable gift, not a security. Imposing securities machinery here would be unnecessary and, worse, misleading, because it would dress a donation in the costume of an investment and risk creating the very expectation of return that turns a gift into a security. This page is an informational overview of a charitable initiative. It is not legal, tax, financial, or investment advice, and it does not substitute for qualified counsel in your jurisdiction. It is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security.
The Operative Regime
The compliance regime that does apply
Because this is charitable solicitation, the operative regime is not securities law. Four obligations govern the raise instead.
Charitable-solicitation registration
Soliciting gifts in a jurisdiction can require registration before residents are solicited. Registration is confirmed in hand for a jurisdiction before any gift page solicits its residents.
Donor acknowledgment and tax receipting
Receipts are issued by jurisdiction: a Canadian official donation receipt, a United States contemporaneous written acknowledgment, or a fiscal-sponsor receipt. The eligible amount is net of any advantage the donor receives.
Source-of-funds and sanctions diligence
A large gift warrants a documented gift-acceptance and source-of-funds process: confirming identity and legitimate origin and screening against applicable sanctions lists, with the review recorded.
Anti-fraud and accuracy
Every representation made to a donor must be accurate and not misleading. The reach figures, the 2035 goal, and the status of the partnership and trust mark are stated honestly because accuracy is a compliance obligation, not only an editorial one.
Receipting
How gifts are received and receipted
Gifts are made to the Million Peacemakers charitable vehicle, which operates through a registered charity in Canada, a 501(c)(3) in the United States, and fiscal sponsorship elsewhere. The receiving entity and the receipt depend on your jurisdiction and the form of the gift.
Registered Charity (Canada) · 501(c)(3) Organisation (United States) · Fiscal Sponsorship Available (Europe & Beyond)
| Jurisdiction | Receipt requirement |
|---|---|
| Canada (registered charity) | An official donation receipt with the charity’s name and registration number, a statement that it is an official receipt for income-tax purposes, the eligible amount net of any advantage, and the date. |
| United States (501(c)(3)) | A contemporaneous written acknowledgment for gifts at the applicable threshold, stating the amount and whether any goods or services were provided in return and their value. |
| Europe and beyond (fiscal sponsor) | Deductibility and receipting follow the fiscal sponsor’s jurisdiction and arrangement, confirmed per donor before a receipt is promised. |
| Donor-advised fund or private foundation | The fund or foundation is the legal donor; no individual tax receipt is issued to the advisor. The grant is acknowledged to the sponsor or foundation. |
Documents on request. Charity registration certificates (a Canadian registration number, a 501(c)(3) determination letter, and fiscal-sponsor agreement evidence) and audited or reviewed financial statements are provided on request as part of the diligence process. Registration is confirmed in hand for a jurisdiction before residents of that jurisdiction are solicited.
Confidentiality
A mutual confidentiality undertaking
Because this is not a securities offering, the materials carry a confidentiality undertaking rather than an offering legend. The undertaking protects both sides and keeps the most sensitive materials out of any donor-accessible room.
The undertaking
- The materials shared in any data room are confidential and provided solely to evaluate a philanthropic partnership with Million Peacemakers.
- Accessing them is conditioned on agreeing to keep them confidential, to use them only for that evaluation, and not to copy, forward, or distribute them without written permission.
- The internal prospect list and contact intelligence are role-limited and never exposed through any public or gated surface.
- The most sensitive materials, including unsigned vendor agreements and the prospect list, are kept out of any donor-accessible room entirely.
Clarifications
The points a careful reader should hold
Five clarifications govern how every figure and status on this platform should be read. They are repeated here so nothing is left to inference.
The 250 million figure is a 2035 goal
It is a target on a modeled trajectory from a 2026 baseline, never a present count. It is labeled a goal on every surface, and the forward-looking caution above governs it.
Coalition reach is borrowed
The verified networks reaching more than 200 million people a year belong to the founding partners, not to Million Peacemakers. Access depends on each partner’s own deployment decision. Borrowed reach is never presented as owned.
The partnership and trust mark are proposed
The development partnership is proposed and pending a founder gating meeting; the Yellow Butterfly Trust Mark is in development. Neither is presented as signed, live, or published.
Adopted figures are subject to confirmation
Where a figure is an adopted working assumption rather than a confirmed fact, the donor-facing surface carries the note that figures reflect the current plan and are subject to confirmation.
A commercial-upside conversation is separate
If a family office wishes to explore exposure to any future commercial layer, that is a separate instrument, separately papered and reviewed by counsel, kept strictly apart from the charitable gift flow. No giving surface suggests a donor receives financial upside.
These materials are an informational overview of a charitable initiative. They are not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security, and nothing here constitutes investment, legal, tax, or financial advice.
Important notice. This page is a structured compliance overview prepared to guide the platform. It is not a legal opinion and does not substitute for qualified counsel in each operative jurisdiction. Several determinations are subject to confirmation by counsel before any external surface is treated as final. The charitable-gift determination is reasoned primarily under United States law; the parallel conclusion in other jurisdictions is to be confirmed by local counsel. Figures presented as adopted working assumptions reflect the current plan and are subject to confirmation. Coalition reach figures describe networks the coalition is building access to and are not a present count of people reached. The 2035 goal is a forward-looking projection, not a guarantee. The development partnership and the Yellow Butterfly Trust Mark are proposed and in development, not signed or live. All figures for client-facing commitments are stated in euros.