What this is, and what it isn't.
This site documents specific, sourced concerns about how a US-registered nonprofit is publicly representing its work, its technology, and its impact to donors.
This is not an allegation of fraud. Marici is a real, registered 501(c)(3) charity (EIN 82-1536804), tax-exempt since September 2017, with eight years of public IRS Form 990 filings, identifiable officers, and operational presence in Asia. The organization appears to be conducting genuine anti-trafficking work and has Silicon Valley supporters who speak publicly in its defense.
This is a request for substantiation. Marici's public-facing materials make a series of extraordinary, specific, and falsifiable claims — about artificial intelligence systems, about the scale of its operational impact, and about the relationship between donor dollars and the lives those dollars are said to save. Those claims appear without the public technical, methodological, or independent third-party documentation that ordinarily accompanies impact statements of this magnitude.
This site publishes Marici's claims, in their own words and verbatim from the sources they themselves chose, alongside what is and is not publicly verifiable. It exists because donors making decisions about where to direct charitable dollars deserve to make those decisions on the basis of evidence.
The numbers do not reconcile.
A central concern: the relationship between Marici's stated cost-per-life-saved and its publicly reported financial scale.
If Marici's claims are taken at face value, here is the arithmetic.
If Marici saves 39,000 lives at a total annual cost of $5.48 million, the true cost per life is approximately $140 — not $500.
Either: (a) the donor-page ratio overstates the cost per life by roughly 3.5×; (b) the impact figure is overstated; or (c) “saved” refers to something materially different from the rescue or intervention donors would reasonably understand. The three claims cannot all simultaneously be true as donors are likely to interpret them.
This is the central donor-transparency question. It is asked here without conclusion as to which of (a), (b), or (c) applies. Marici has not yet responded.