Give $5. Pass it on.
Watch it ripple.
A one-time $5 membership that funds real acts of kindness — grants to creators, causes, and neighbors. Every dollar tracked in the open. No subscriptions. No pyramids. Just a ripple you can see.
Same $5. A lot more ripple.
You know the "buy me a coffee" moment. We loved it. Then we asked: what if that same $5 kept working — for you, for the next person, forever?
Three steps. One small act.
You don't earn cash from referrals — you earn ripple. And you get to see, in the open, exactly who your $5 reached.
Join for $5
A single, lifetime contribution. You become a member and get your own shareable link.
Share your link
Invite friends by link, or gift a membership directly. Every new member grows the fund.
Watch the ripple
Each month the community fund grants $5 kindnesses to creators, causes, and neighbors — publicly logged.
Small enough to say yes.
Big enough to matter.
$5 is the price of a latte. Pooled with thousands of others, it becomes a self-refilling fund — quietly granting kindness back into the world every single month.
- Lifetime member badge on your profile & ripple page
- Public ledger — see every $5 as it goes out
- Gift a membership to a friend in one tap
- Monthly ripple report — the humans your $5 reached
No subscription. No recurring charge. Ever.
- Lifetime membership — never billed again
- Your own shareable ripple link
- Member badge & public ripple page
- Monthly report of the kindnesses you helped fund
- Gift memberships to friends in one tap
- Community grant pool$3.55 · 71%
- Platform fee (keeps the site running & pays the founder)$1.00 · 20%
- Payment processing$0.45 · 9%
Every split is disclosed in the monthly Ripple Report.
Secure checkout · No recurring charges · 7-day refund, no questions
Questions, answered kindly
Do I earn money by referring friends?+
No — and that's on purpose. Referral payouts turn communities into pyramids. Instead, every $5 goes into a public community fund that grants kindness back out. You earn ripple, not cash.
Where does my $5 actually go?+
$3.55 into the community grant pool, $1.00 platform fee (which keeps the site running and pays the founder), and about $0.45 to payment processing. Every split is shown on the pricing card and disclosed line-by-line in the monthly Ripple Report.
Does the founder get paid?+
Yes, transparently. The founder is paid from the 20% platform fee — the same line item that covers hosting, development, and running the fund. Founder pay is tied to total membership revenue, never to who recruited whom, so there are no referral payouts and no pyramid structure.
How is this different from Buy Me a Coffee?+
BMC is a great one-off tip to one creator. Pay It Forward pools those tips into a lifetime membership so your $5 keeps working — funding many people, transparently, month after month.
Is this a pyramid scheme?+
No. There are no tiers, no upline, no payouts to members. Everyone pays the same flat $5 once, and nobody profits from recruiting others.
Can I gift a membership?+
Yes — gifting is built in. Send a $5 membership to a friend and they join instantly, with your name on the ripple.