Public ledger · Cedar County Flood Relief Fund
Every dollar, accounted for.
Donors have given $7,500 so far, and $5,450 of it is already in the PayPal accounts of 17 households. Each payment below carries its PayPal record, and nothing on this page can identify the families who received it.
Updated Nov 15, 13:08 UTCDownload the data as JSON
The live report
Select a bar, a slice or a payout to show only those grants, and select it again to show them all. 5 more applications are still being reviewed and will appear here if they are approved.
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Fast, and still careful
- Typical time to cash
- 23 min
- from applying to money in the family’s PayPal account, any wait for donations included
- Paid without waiting for a volunteer
- 65%
- small, clear cases inside the fund’s limits
- Grants paid twice
- 0
- one PayPal payout per grant; PayPal refuses a repeat
- Backed by a PayPal record
- 100%
- every payment carries its PayPal payout id
How these numbers are countedWorked out from the fund’s own records every time this page loads. The flood and the applications are a fictional demo scenario; the donations, the decisions and the payouts are real PayPal sandbox and AI calls, and nothing is typed in by hand.
- Typical time to cash
- The median over the 17 paid grants: from the moment an application was received to PayPal confirming the payout. Half were faster, half slower. It includes any time a family waited for a donation or for a volunteer.
- Paid without waiting for a volunteer
- 11 of the 17 paid grants were approved by the AI case officer alone. The others were approved by a volunteer first.
- Grants paid twice
- The number of PayPal payout ids that appear on more than one grant. Each grant goes to PayPal under one id of its own, and PayPal refuses a second request with the same id.
- Backed by a PayPal record
- 17 of the 17 paid grants carry the payout id PayPal returned. The id is in the table above and in the JSON linked at the top of this page.
Who decides who gets paid?
The fund’s volunteers wrote the rules before the first application arrived. The AI case officer follows them on every case, pays only small and clear ones on its own and leaves every refusal to a person.