Makers and craftspeople
Surfboard shapers, furniture builders, leatherworkers, potters. Work you can pick up and feel the hours in. Your trade is worth more than a folding table at a weekend market.
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit
One maker a quarter.
Paid in public.
We pick one small creative business every quarter, hand them money this community raised, and put their work in front of people who buy things. Every dollar shows up in the ledger further down this page.
The BS Foundation
Business Showcase Foundation
Why we exist
Two things keep good work invisible.
The first is the friend who swears they'll check out your shop and never opens the link. The second is the maker who won't post the work until it's perfect, which means never. Both of those are bullsh*t. Both are fixable.
We fix the first with a feature that puts your work where people can buy it. We fix the second by setting the bar at one honest paragraph instead of a pitch deck. You do not need a logo, a launch plan, or a good year behind you.
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Business picked each quarter
4
Funded rounds a year
100%
Raised by this community
$0
Cost to enter, always
How it works
Four steps, one check.
01
You submit
Tell us what you make and why you started. One paragraph does it. Skip the deck.
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We read it
A committee reads every entry each quarter. We weigh craft and honesty over polish.
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We showcase
The pick gets a written feature, photos of the work, and every link we can aim at it.
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They get paid
The quarter's fund transfers to them. No equity, no repayment, no strings attached.
Who we back
Built for the people who build.
If you make something with your hands or your head and you sell it, you belong here. Side hustle counts. One person counts.
Visual artists
Painters, illustrators, printmakers, muralists. If you have been undercharging because people treat your rate as a starting offer, this is the fund for you.
Creative entrepreneurs
Clothing designers, jewelers, zine publishers, ceramicists. One-person shops running on passion and shipping labels that cost more than they should.
Quarterly spotlight
The first seat is open.
Four times a year one business gets the feature, the amplification, and the money. No catch, no repayment, nothing taken.
Round one opens as soon as the fund can back it up. That is the honest status. Get your entry in now so you are in the pool, and put something in the fund so there is a check at the end of it.
Enter round one
Round one
Your business here
This card holds a real maker as soon as round one closes. It could be you, or the friend who keeps saying they will launch eventually.
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Where the money goes
Every dollar, where it went, and the receipt.
The whole point of this foundation is that supporting a small business should not feel like a gamble. That standard applies to us too. Here is exactly how donations are handled.
$0
Raised toward round one
Every dollar is logged in the public ledger below.
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Verified businesses only
Before anyone is paid we confirm the business is real and operating: something you can actually buy, and a person standing behind it.
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Direct transfer
Funds move to the recipient by bank transfer or check. No platform skim, no sixty-day hold, no conversion into store credit.
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Public record
Every round posts here: collected, disbursed, to whom, on what date. No login, no email signup, no request form.
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501(c)(3) accountability
We file annually and answer to the IRS. Donations go to the stated charitable purpose because the law requires it.
The ledger
Submissions
Tell us what you make.
One paragraph about the work and why you started it. That is the whole bar. Entries are read every quarter and the best story wins, not the biggest brand.
Fund the next round
Twenty bucks keeps a kiln firing for a month.
Contributions go into the quarterly fund. The fund goes to a maker. The ledger above shows both halves of that sentence. Give once or give every quarter.