You can raise it. Placing it safely is the hard part.
If your organization raises money centrally to back local work, a solidarity fund, a bail fund, a foundation, then you already know the bottleneck. It is not the raising. It is knowing which local groups are real, and being able to satisfy yourself of that without asking them for documents that put them at risk.
Today that check happens through personal introductions, which means the groups you fund are the ones somebody happened to know. Good groups without the right contact stay invisible to you.
Relay is the piece that makes the introduction unnecessary, and it is deliberately nothing more than that.
Totals by category. Groups supported. Time to funding.
You get what you need to report on the money, and nothing that would make you the holder of sensitive records. A per-person figure is not being withheld from you. It cannot be produced, because the information to produce it is never collected by anyone.
You decide who is real
Groups apply and you approve them, or another group already on Relay vouches for them, or an established organization refers them. Relay runs the process and makes none of the calls.
Requests arrive structured
An amount, a category, the region served, and an optional justification that the form actively discourages from containing personal detail.
Four states, no paperwork
Submitted, approved, funds sent, acknowledged. You approve, decline, or ask a clarifying question. No receipts and no case narratives to store.
Little to be subpoenaed for
What exists is group-level amounts and dates, a list of groups that consented to be listed, and locked messages nobody can open. There are no records about aid recipients to hand over, because none are ever created.
One fund. Three to five groups. Thirty to forty-five days.
Nobody is asking you for money. Relay is not fundraising, and there is nothing to donate to: the nonprofit intended to hold this has not been formed. The ask is a pilot.
You provide
One fund willing to route real requests through the workflow, introductions to three to five local groups, and honest feedback when it does not work.
Relay provides
The software, help getting groups set up, support throughout, and someone to run the pilot. No cost to anyone taking part.
Either side can stop
Taking part is opt-in and can be ended by any party at any time, for any reason. That is written into the proposal rather than implied.
It succeeded if
- A group connected to a fund without a personal introduction
- Someone asked for help without identifying themselves
- A group reached that person, verified by safe word
- Funds moved faster than they did before
- Participants say it felt safer than the tools it replaced
- Nobody asked for recipient data, because nothing needed it
Everything here can be checked rather than believed.
The code is public and AGPL-3.0, which means it cannot be made private by anyone, including whoever ends up owning it. Every claim on this page has code behind it that you, or your own technical people, can read.
Nobody has used this yet.
The software is built and running, and no group has joined. The live database holds zero records. A group cannot appear in the public list until a fund hub approves it, so the first fund to take part is what makes both the list and the anonymous requests work at all. Saying so plainly is deliberate: a project asking to be trusted with other people's safety does not get to overstate itself.
Paused, then restarted
Work stopped in February 2026 after the last planned stage shipped, and started again in August 2026 to repair the deployment and clear the known problems.
One person built it
Everything described on these pages was written by one contributor. The engineering is the part that is finished. Nothing else is.
No money is being asked for
Mythic Works LLC is building Relay and intends to hand it to a nonprofit, which is not formed yet. There is no donation button and no fundraising.