How we’re set up
How Guardians of the AV is set up.
No jargon, no spin. Here is exactly how this is organized today, where your donation goes, and where we’re headed. If anything below is unclear or wrong, email hello@guardiansofsolano.com and we’ll answer plainly.
What we are
A grassroots project, run by neighbors, for neighbors.
Guardians of the AV is a grassroots project led by Aaron and Anadora Turner. Anadora is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). We started this in Fairfield because we live here and because our unsupported neighbors—people without stable housing—were going without basics that we could help provide.
The work itself is simple to describe: get real meals and basic necessities to neighbors who need them, and do it out in the open so anyone can see what was raised and where it went. We’re small, we’re local, and we’d rather be honest about that than oversell it.
How giving works right now
Your donation is tax-deductible today, through a real charity.
Right now, donations are processed through our fiscal sponsor, Social Good Fund, a California 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 46-1323531). Your gift is earmarked for Guardians of the AV.
In practice, that means two things. First, your donation is tax-deductible today—not someday, today. Second, there’s an established charity’s books, oversight, and accountability standing behind every dollar while we form our own nonprofit. You’re not wiring money into a personal account; you’re giving to a recognized charity that routes it to this work.
Where we’re headed
Our own nonprofit, owning everything directly.
We’re forming our own 501(c)(3) public charity, Guardians of the AV, Inc. When it’s formed, it will own everything directly—the platform, the funds, the brand, and the data—all held by the charity itself.
There is no for-profit parent sitting above this, and no software licensed back to any private company or person. The technology platform we built is the founder’s in-kind contribution—a gift of his own work—to the charitable mission. Nobody is owed a royalty, a license fee, or a cut.
Our promise
What we commit to.
- We only fund what we’ve already raised. We don’t promise meals or basics against money we don’t have. The work follows the dollars, not the other way around.
- Every dollar is tracked and shown. What comes in and what goes out is recorded and published. Our running ledger lives on the transparency page.
- We don’t claim to end homelessness. That’s not an honest promise for a project our size. What we do is help our unsupported neighbors in measurable, specific ways—meals served, basics provided—and we report those numbers as they are.