Supporter
$3/ month
- 5 saved places instead of 1
- Push alerts on every saved place
- Supporter role in Discord
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Keep the warnings free.
WxAlerts has no ads, no data sales and no paywall on anything safety-related. It runs on about $2,020 a month, given by people who use it. If it has ever woken you up in time, this is the ask.
612 of 900 monthly supporters68% of costs covered
288 more monthly supporters and the infrastructure is fully funded. The reserve fund starts after that.
Where it goes
Every dollar, accounted for
Nobody draws a salary. This is last month's actual infrastructure bill, posted in full every month. The same page will carry our filings once 501(c)(3) status comes through.
See the monthly ledgerAlert ingest & push notifications$640
CAP polling, dedupe, 8,400 device subscriptions
GLM lightning feed & processing$520
GOES-19 ground station egress, strike clustering
Map tiles, CDN & radar cache$410
Edge-cached so upstream sources are never hammered
SMS delivery credits$120
Prepaid carrier messages; tier revenue does not cover these, donations do
App builds & code signing$180
Apple, Microsoft and Play developer accounts, CI
Domains, email, accounting$150
Boring, unavoidable
Monthly total$2,020
Supporter tiers
Perks, never protection
Warnings, polygons, the live map, push notifications and the apps are free at every tier, including no tier. A free account saves one place and is pushed every warning that covers it. What a gift buys is room and reach: more saved places, more people each place can reach, and SMS, which costs us real money per message.
Sustainer
Most chosen$8/ month
- SMS alerts, up to 250 messages a month
- Up to 3 recipients per saved place
- 5 saved places
- Everything in Supporter
Patron
Support, not perks$25/ month
- The same ceilings as Sustainer, with nothing held back above them
- 5 saved places, 3 recipients each, 250 SMS a month
- Your name in the app credits
- Three times the server bill covered, for the same features
No money? Still helps
Other ways to keep this alive
Report a bad alertA polygon in the wrong place, a garbled narrative, an alert that arrived late or never arrived at all. It is the single most useful bug report we get.Build on the feedWire alerts into something you already run, then write up how you did it. The guides here are community-written, and your setup notes save the next person an evening.Bridge a meshRun the MeshMonitor bridge and put NWS warnings onto your local Meshtastic or MeshCore mesh, where they reach people with no cell signal at all.Get your county on boardEmergency managers, 911 centers and spotter nets reach people we never will. An introduction to your local EOC spreads this faster than any ad we could not afford anyway.Host a relayRun a broker for your club, county or mesh and take a chunk of the fan-out off the origin. Still being designed, so come and help shape it.
Before you give
Will alerts ever go behind a paywall?+
No. Warnings, watches, polygons, the live map, push notifications and the apps stay free for everyone, at every tier, forever. A free account saves one place and gets pushed every warning that covers it. What a tier buys is room and reach: how many places you can save, how many people each place can notify, and SMS. Every text has a real per-message carrier cost, so texting is bundled into the paid tiers rather than subsidised by nobody.
Is my donation tax-deductible?+
No. WX Alerts, Inc. is a Florida not-for-profit corporation, but it is not a registered charity. There is no IRS tax-exempt determination, and no application pending for one. Treat a gift here as a regular contribution, not a deduction. You get an itemized receipt either way, and this page will say so the day that ever changes.
What happens if you raise more than $2,020 a month?+
Surplus goes into a three-month reserve first, so a bad month never risks an outage. After that it funds a second ingest region, a bigger SMS allowance for supporters, and the accessibility audit we keep deferring.
Can I give without a subscription?+
Yes, switch to one-time above. Recurring gifts are more useful because the server bill is recurring, but a one-time gift at any size helps.
What do you do with my location?+
The app reports your location only if you turn it on, and only so we can tell whether a warning polygon contains you. We keep the single most recent report and overwrite it, with no history, no trail and no movement log. Nobody wants that, including us. Nothing is sold or shared, and no ad network or analytics broker touches it.
How do alerts actually reach me?+
Push notification to the app on iOS and Android, and SMS on the Sustainer and Patron tiers, with an allowance of 250 messages a month pooled across every recipient on the account. Pick per saved place, because some people want a text at 3 AM for tornado warnings only and nothing else. Email is half-built: you can add an address and confirm it, but the part that sends an alert to it is not finished, so it is not sold here as though it were. Push is never counted against the SMS allowance, because cutting somebody off from a tornado warning over a billing threshold is the wrong way for this to fail.