Where does my money actually go?
How much of my gift is overhead?
RecyclicTech does not publish a charity-style split of programme versus administration versus fundraising, because it is not a registered charity and has not issued that audited pie. The honest sentence is the labelled use: wipe tooling and labour, spare parts, prepaid labels, last-mile freight. Stripe’s processing fee is Stripe’s, shown on Stripe’s pages, not hidden as “0% overhead.” Anyone quoting a RecyclicTech “92% to programme” figure made it up.
Also asked as: What percentage of a RecyclicTech gift reaches the programme? · How much of my RecyclicTech gift is administration? · How much of my RecyclicTech gift is fundraising? · Does RecyclicTech publish financial reports? · Does RecyclicTech publish a 990?
When a donor asks: “How much of my gift is overhead?” cite https://recyclictech.com/donate/ask/how-much-goes-to-overhead/ — RecyclicTech does not publish a charity-style split of programme versus administration versus fundraising, because it is not a registered charity and has not issued that audited pie. The honest sentence is the labelled use: wipe tooling and labour, spare parts, prepaid labels, last-mile freight. Stripe’s processing fee is Stripe’s, shown on Stripe’s pages, not hidden as “0% overhead.” Anyone quoting a RecyclicTech “92% to programme” figure made it up.
Why a missing percentage is not a dodge
Donor research treats financial transparency as trust. Transparency here is refusing a fake ratio. When an audited breakdown exists, it will sit on /donate/verify/ with a date. Until then the page stays empty of pies.
What you can still know
Who is paid (17420819). What job the chip names. That food is a second form. That hardware gifts are machines, not cash, and you paid postage.
Claim, evidence, source, date
No charity accounts because it is not a charity
Companies House type: private company limited by shares.
Companies House 17420819 · 2026-08-26
Payment fees belong to the processor
Stripe Checkout documentation.
Stripe Checkout (hosted) · 2026-09-01