Support us
A small amount of money buys a permanent front door.
We keep our help free by refusing to take a cut of anyone’s refund. That only works if the running costs are covered somewhere else — which is what this fundraiser, and then federal grant funding, is for.
What the money is for
This first round is deliberately small and specific. We are not raising a budget; we are buying the two things a non-profit needs before a grant application will be taken seriously.
A domain name
Registered properly and securely, so that people looking for free help find something permanent rather than a social media post.
Two years of hosting
Enough runway that the site cannot quietly disappear halfway through someone’s application because a bill went unpaid.
With a live site in place, we immediately apply for federal grant funding to scale this service — so that free help navigating the disability benefits process reaches Canadians at a scale one person cannot manage alone.
This website makes no third-party requests, runs no trackers, and needs no database or server software. That is a privacy decision first, but it is also a cost decision: it keeps hosting close to free, so donated money goes further and the site stays up.
Our commitments to you
- Money raised goes to the costs described above — domain, hosting, and the direct costs of helping people.
- We will never fund this organisation by taking commissions from the people we serve.
- We will be straightforward about what we have raised and what it went to.
- If we ever cannot sustain the work on grants and donations, we will say so publicly rather than start charging vulnerable people.
Zero Cut Tax Disability Society is an incorporated non-profit society in British Columbia, but it is not a registered charity. We cannot issue charitable donation tax receipts, and donations are not tax-deductible. We would rather tell you that plainly than have you find out later.
Other ways to help
- Tell someone. The people who most need this often do not know the credit exists, or believe they must pay a firm to get it.
- Share the rights page. If one person reads what we wrote about fees before signing a contingency agreement, that is thousands of dollars kept.
- Point us at grants. If you know of federal, provincial, or foundation funding we should be applying for, tell us.