Support our projects by donating to Recap Time Squad¶
Recap Time Squad is mostly self-funded by @ajhalili2006's school allowance and we're currently relying on donations from you to keep things running. Consider chipping in today to ensure that projects are being maintained and the people behind it are supported.
Here in this page are the ways you can donate to our team. If you have questions,
visit the FAQs page and don't hesitate to email us at [email protected].
Online¶
HCB is Hack Club's in-house fiscal sponsorship platform + program for its partnered organizations, mostly teenager-led. Since we're fiscally sponsored through their program, we mainly use it to manage our finances as a team, alongside issuing donating invoices and handling reimbursements.
You can donate to our organization through the embedded donation form below. (Click here if the frame is too small) Donations in the US are tax-deductible to the extent by the IRS guidelines, as long as it is not in exchange for services/gifts.
Open Collective is a platform where communities can collect and disburse money transparently, to sustain and grow their projects. (from their docs site)
While we use HCB as our main platform for our fundraising efforts with finanical transparency by enabling Transparency Mode, we still using Open Collective to make them organized as well as to track expenses and income outside the HCB platform.
Our Open Collective page is at https://opencollective.com/recaptime-dev (and the internal organization for shared vendor data and centralized reporting on OC side aka clearinghouse can be found at https://opencollective.com/recaptimedev-hcb). Note that if you request refunds for donations via Open Collective per our refund policy, you may receive the funds minus Stripe fees (since we use our own Stripe account outside HCB) and our fiscal sponsor's within days after being processed.
The HCB team does not currently accept PayPal donations on the donations page (and we could technically work with them to enable Paypal payouts on Pateron and friends), but Andrei Jiroh is currently managing a PH merchant account on behalf of Recap Time Squad.
If you don't see the button for your currency here, you may try to use our
paypal.me link (username is recaptimedev
if you're searching in the app). If you are asked for an invoice ID, leave it blank
unless you have received a donation invoice from us via HCB or Open Collective.
If you are in the United States, we recommend donating through HCB or Open Collective instead. Donating to Recap Time Squad through this way may complicate eligibility for tax deductions, but you should receive a receipt within days once confirmed.
Via bank checks and transfers¶
Contact us for bank account details
For US donors looking for our bank details, we don't usually publish them out of caution to avoid fraud.
We accept bank checks1 from US finanical institutions in USD through our fiscal sponsor. We can virtually deposit your checkson your behalf through this form. In the future, you can directly deposit your checks via the HCB platform once implemented.
Alternatively, you can also mail your bank checks to our fiscal sponsor's mailing address below:
Make sure to write The Hack Foundation or Hack Club as the receipent and either
Recap Time Suqad or Community Lorebooks in the memo field to avoid issues. Our
fiscal sponsor's banking partners will only accept checks for its names and not under
our own organization name (or any of the team members), and leaving the memo field bank
may confuse the HCB team even further. Checks might be manually verified for up to a week (or
a month if sent over mail) and you will be notified once it cleared through via email.
If you need our bank account details, you can request one via Open Collective or fill out this donation invoice request form.
Contact us for bank account details
For international donors looking for our bank details, we don't usually publish them out of caution to avoid fraud.
Also for Filipinos, you may opt to donate via bank transfers to Andrei Jiroh's personal accounts. Visit https://sponsors.andreijiroh.dev/ways-to-support/donations/bank-transfer for details.
Andrei Jiroh may personally deposit PH checks virtually via Gotyme Bank as of March 3, 2025
for your donations to Recap Time Squad below PHP 500,000 (if it is larger than that, expect delays
due to income tax implications). Write his full legal name in the receipent name and write
Donation to Recap Time Squad1 in the memo. Once done, contact Andrei Jiroh
for his address so you can mail it over PHLPost (or your preferred courier).
Alternatively, you can send money from a local bank to one of his personal bank or e-wallet accounts via the aforementioned link above.
Contact us for bank account details
For international donors looking for our bank details, we don't usually publish them out of caution to avoid fraud.
The best way to donate is through the online options above, but if you need
our bank account details, you can request one by donating via
Open Collective (select Bank transfer when asked what
payment method to use) and it will automatically provide you the details (also
check your inbox for later use).
Crypto, stocks, etc.¶
We're working on accepting them for donations behind the scenes, but in the meanwhile let us and the HCB team know so that we can sort things out behind the scenes for you before you do.