A glass-wall fund for Blue Ridge Paws Rescue · powered by barkhood
Blue Ridge Paws Rescue keeps its animals, its donors, and every call. barkhood adds the glass-wall money rail, the AI back office, and the credible front door — so your town can fund lifesaving work upstream, every cent public and receipted, and every animal on its own page.
Every animal gets a page
Each rescue has its own profile — a photo, a story, a timeline, and its own slice of the public ledger. It's the page your neighbors share, and the page that proves the dollar did what you paid for.
The glass wall · live public ledger
No "trust us." No overhead mystery. Donations are tokenized, disbursements go straight to vetted vendors, and a fiduciary committee approves every payment against public criteria. The fund and the donor list belong to the rescue — barkhood is just the transparent rail beneath them.
Active save ticket · MAPLE-0312
From a Southwest VA county shelter → Blue Ridge Paws Rescue
| Pull fee → partner rescue | $75 |
| Vetting & vaccines → vet clinic | $140 |
| Spay surgery → spay clinic prevention | $150 |
| Transport seat → licensed transporter | $85 |
| Fully funded | $450 / $450 |
The 45% prevention floor
A hard gate reserves ≥45% of every dollar for prevention — spay/neuter that stops litters, and diversion that keeps a pet in its home.
Objective the AI ranks toward: intakes averted over 3–5 years — not animals saved this week.
| Date | Detail | Beneficiary / donor | Approved | Amount | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ↓ | Jun 14 | Donation → Maple | DONOR-0488 | — | +$50.00 | |
| ↑ | Jun 14 | Pull fee · paid to vendor Blue Ridge Paws Rescue | MAPLE-0312 | Committee ✓ | −$75.00 | receipt |
| ↑ | Jun 14 | Spay surgery prevention Southwest VA Spay Clinic | MAPLE-0312 | Committee ✓ | −$150.00 | receipt |
| ↓ | Jun 13 | Donation → chapter fund | DONOR-0486 | — | +$100.00 | |
| ↑ | Jun 12 | Transport seat · paid to vendor DMV Animal Transport LLC | BENJI-0309 | Committee ✓ | −$85.00 | receipt |
| ↑ | Jun 11 | Vetting & vaccines · paid to vendor Northside Veterinary | LUNA-0307 | Committee ✓ | −$140.00 | receipt |
| ↑ | Jun 10 | 1 month of pet food diversion Community Pet Pantry — kept Riley home | DIVERSION-0305 | Committee ✓ | −$60.00 | receipt |
| ↓ | Jun 10 | Donation → Luna | DONOR-0479 | — | +$25.00 | |
| ↓ | Jun 09 | Monthly gift → chapter fund | DONOR-0451 | — | +$200.00 |
Donors are tokenized for privacy; their dollars are not. Money never touches a personal account — barkhood pays the vet, the clinic, the transporter, and the partner rescue directly, against a committee-approved invoice.
Lifetime: 24 placed · 3 redirected · 1 lost. A glass wall means we show the hard ones, not just the wins.
How a dollar is decided
No algorithm and no popularity vote ever moves money — by law, the board keeps "discretion and control." This is how the founder steps out of the way without giving up the trust.
Triages and estimates cost-impact against public criteria. Never decides; capped below human judgment.
The accountable local lead — from a partner rescue — chooses the case. The community witnesses and can remove them.
2–3 fiduciaries approve each payment against written criteria, with a conflict-of-interest recusal rule.
Why nothing else gives a town this
Every dollar public and receipted, paid to vendors not people. The trust a lone rescuer with a Venmo can never offer.
Intake forms, thank-yous, invoices, reconciliation — handled at near-zero cost, so the work goes to animals, not admin.
Your partner rescue keeps its donors and its call. barkhood amplifies — it never takes custody, runs clinics, or takes over.
We're choosing a small founding cohort of partner rescues across DC, Maryland & Virginia. You bring the community — we bring the technology, the transparency, and the back office.
Become a founding partner →One 15-minute call is all it takes to start · hello@barkhood.org