Your team’s AI spend can help heal people in Vancouver.

VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation · this month Engineers Without Borders Canada · November World University Service of Canada · December Cuso International · January

Connect your company card and choose a share of your AI spend. Pledge turns it into one gift a month for a different charity each month, with every dollar on the record.

How it works
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$0

pledged for VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation this month

Live
$24,500every month
45companies giving
$146,800given so far
The scale

Aid budgets are shrinking. AI budgets aren’t.

Foreign aid fell a record 23% in 2025 and is still falling. What the world pays just two AI labs is on track to pass it before the end of this year.

Two AI labs are about to take in more than all foreign aid

Billions of US dollars a year

  • OpenAI + Anthropic revenue, annualized3
  • All foreign aid4
  • Projection5
  • Range of scenarios5

One percent sounds small

It depends on what it’s one percent of.

1% of the world’s AI spend $26.7 billion a year

The world will spend $2.67 trillion on AI in 2026.1 One percent of that is about 15% of all foreign aid given in 2025, the year aid fell a record 23%.2

All foreign aid, 2025$174.3B
1% of AI spend, 2026$26.7B
How it works

Find it, choose a share, give once a month

  1. 1 · Find

    See your AI spend

    Drop in a card statement and Pledge picks out every AI charge in seconds. The file is read on your device. Or connect your card read-only.

  2. 2 · Choose

    Pick your share

    Most companies give 1%. See exactly what it adds up to each month and year before you commit.

  3. 3 · Give

    One gift a month

    One invoice, paid straight to that month’s charity. The charity sends your official tax receipt.

The record

Every gift, as it happens

Questions

Before you start

Do you need access to our accounts?

No. Drop in a card statement and it’s read on your device; only AI charges are kept. If you’d rather not upload each month, connect your card read-only through Plaid.

Is this a fee on our AI spend?

No. It’s a gift you choose and can change or pause any month. Your AI providers bill you exactly as before.

Who gets the money and sends the receipt?

Each gift is paid straight to that month’s registered Canadian charity, which issues your official donation receipt. Pledge never holds the money.

Why one gift a month?

Card fees take a fixed cut of every charge. One monthly invoice, paid by bank transfer, means almost all of your gift reaches the charity.

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Made in Burnaby, given in Vancouver

See what 1% of your AI spend could do

It takes about a minute, and your statement never leaves your device.

Pledge for Chrome · For individuals

Round up your AI credits. Give the spare change.

When you top up OpenRouter credits, Pledge offers to round your total up to the next Canadian dollar. The change adds up, and you give it in one go when it reaches C$5.

Install

Set up in about a minute

  1. Desktop Chrome required. Pledge for Chrome works on OpenRouter credit checkout only for now.
  2. Sandbox prototype: payments run in Stripe’s test mode. No real donation is made and no tax receipt is issued.
  3. Intended charity: VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation. This prototype is not affiliated with the Foundation.