A cooperative that lets brands fund groceries for EBT/SNAP families at the register — with no new federal spending and no new POS systems.

Year 1 brand donation today. Three federal-endpoint rails pre-staged for Treasury.

The Brand Donation Pathway is the cooperative's Year-1 flagship — live at the register on the same swipe. The other three use cases are what the cooperative pre-stages: the same standards, audit, attachment, and settlement rails that Treasury will adopt at the par event. The cooperative does not itself collect duties, enhance the federal balance sheet, or operate a national surveillance program — it builds the substrate Treasury inherits.

A cooperative — the kind that owns your local grocery store or electric utility — but the thing it owns is a credit

Brands give a charitable donation, in cash, to a chartered Donor-Advised Fund. The fund uses the donation to buy gift-card-equivalents from the same brand at retail. Those become Coop-IC: a credit attached at the product level. At checkout, an EBT/SNAP family swipes their normal card; the Coop-IC covers the brand-funded portion of the basket first, the SNAP balance covers any residual second. The retailer is paid full retail price by the cooperative's settlement rail. The brand gets a tax-deductible charitable receipt for the original cash donation. The taxpayer saves on SNAP outlay dollar-for-dollar on the brand-funded share.

The 4-minute explainer video for the home page is in production. Until then: the plain-English version is the paragraph above; the deeper version is in the "How It Works" reference layer.

Pre-charter formation. Anchor partners under MoU.

Reference architecture, for the curious

These pages are the deep end of the pool. Most visitors will get what they need from their audience door above. If you want the technical mechanics, start here.