Billionaire Army

Overview

Billionaire Army keeps a public file on each of over 1,100 U.S.-connected billionaires: net worth, federal political donations, foundation assets and grants, and insider stock sales. Every number links to where it came from and the date it was pulled. Estimates say they are estimates.

The giving score (formally the Public Benefit Score) combines giving relative to net worth, total giving, Giving Pledge membership and how much of the record is public. If there is no giving record on file, the person is marked Not graded, never ranked. A daily feed pairs billionaire news with each person's file, and The Assignment lets anyone write a public goal with a number and a deadline.

What it does not claim: the score is not calculated from goals, and it does not measure whether someone is a good person. Federal donations are matched by name, so a record may belong to someone else with the same name, and the card says so.

Why I built it

For years I owned a bike shop in Woodland Hills. The hardest part of that business was the people who walked in, wanted a bike, and couldn't afford one. Now I read a billionaire number, feel the thing I always feel, and close the tab. I wanted that loop to end in a receipt instead of a screenshot. This site doesn't answer how much any one person should keep. It keeps the receipt so you can.

How it works

1. Pick a name - one you're angry at, or one you've never heard of. Their file opens with net worth, political donations and a giving grade. 2. Follow a source link - every figure links to the filing or article it came from, with the date it was pulled. 3. Check the score - the giving formula is public, and the leaderboard ranks by it, filterable by state or industry. 4. Write a goal - The Assignment takes a public goal with a target and a deadline. Anyone can rate one.

Feature highlights

• Sourced profiles - net worth, federal political donations, foundation assets and grants, and insider stock sales, each figure linked to its source and dated.
• Giving score - an open, versioned score built from relative and total giving, Giving Pledge membership and public-record coverage. No giving record on file means Not graded, never ranked.
• Leaderboard - rank everyone with a giving record by giving score, with the rest listed as Not graded, and filter by state or industry.
• The Feed - billionaire news paired with the person's donations, foundation data and giving grade. The grade rates their giving record, not the story beside it.
• Today's 10 - ten billionaires a day, each with a sourced receipt. You approve or disapprove.
• The Assignment - public goals with a number and a deadline attached. Anyone can write one, and anyone can rate one.
• Open code - the code that produces every number is public, under the AGPL-3.0 licence.

Pricing

Free. Billionaire Army is donation-funded, with a hard cap of $100 per person per year, and has no ads and no premium tier.

Notes

• For whom: Anyone who wants the real number behind a billionaire headline, and where it came from.
• Privacy: No home addresses, family details, or anything touching a person's physical safety are published, for anyone.
• Not advice: Not a financial product or investment adviser. The giving score answers one narrow question - giving against capacity - and a high grade is not a verdict on character.
• How it's built: Public records (federal election filings, SEC filings, foundation tax returns) and news, gathered on a schedule, with AI-written summaries that link to their sources.