Allocation of Undesignated Funds Gifted to Lead Safe Mama, LLC Through January 24, 2026

A Quick Note from Tamara Rubin

January 24, 2026
Saturday

Below you will find a three page summary spreadsheet detailing how we have allocated undesignated gifted funds that have been received by Lead Safe Mama, LLC between June 8, 2025 and January 24, 2026 (today). If you click on each of the three images below you should be able to see the image full sized. Some highlights related to the spreadsheet are detailed below:

1. The unallocated gifted funds below (for the time period noted above – about 7-1/2 months) currently total $26,872.00
   • We meant to publish an update much sooner than this, but with the amount of work that goes into these updates, we simply have not had time — especially with all of the legal nonsense going on around our work (more on that here!)
2. This includes funds gifted by our Patreon Membership, through our general fund GoFundMe and other sources (PayPal, Zelle, & Venmo)
3. If you would like to join folks in making a contribution in support of the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC  via any of these methods here are the details:
   • PayPal: Testing@LeadSafeMama.com
   • Venmo: @LeadSafeMama
   • Zelle: Testing@LeadSafeMama.com
   • General Fund GoFundMe (currently at $58,864.00 in total funds that have been contributed in support of our work over the past nine years): https://gofund.me/c8d21395c
4. These gifted funds helped us to cover the costs of testing and reporting for 68 different products that we otherwise would not have had the funds to test and report on (these funds helped to bridg the gap between crowd-sourced funding and other direct support).
5. Our costs for laboratory testing and reporting on items ranges from $317.00 to  $654.50 per item.
   • You can see the breakdown of our budget for testing each item on this link: https://tamararubin.com/budget/
6. Undesignated funding that comes in over the coming weeks and months will help us cover the costs of testing and reporting for line  items number 65 to 100 on the list below.
7. Of the 115+ products shown in the summary spreadsheet below (it’s actually 117 products represented in the 100 line items below as several of the campaigns are for multiple products), articles are still pending (not yet published) for 20 of the products. We have not yet published the article with the full original lab report for each product in the spreadsheet that has an X with a number next to it in the “Report Published” column (the column on the far right).
   • We will be working on publishing articles for X-1 through X-12 this month (January 2026), as well as publishing articles for several products that did receive full funding (products for which we did not need to allocate undesignated gifted funds to cover the costs of testing and reporting).
8. As you can see from the budget linked above, I volunteer my time for this initiative: the budget covers the lab testing, publishing-related costs, purchasing and shipping costs for the products, and the time of the Lead Safe Mama team to support the publishing of these reports (including work on articles, editing, graphics design-work, and helping to answer questions online  – interacting with many of you on social media to make sure questions are answered).
9. Our goal right now is to reach $1,750.oo a month in combined total Patreon contributions in support of this work and we are just $17.oo in monthly support away from this goal.
   • When we reach this goal we will be publishing the lab test results for the Crucial Four MSalt.
10. Our next goal after that is to reach $1,850 a month in Patreon gifts and when we reach that goal we will be publishing the lab test results for the Druera Ceylon Cinnamon product.
11. If we saw no increase in Patreon support in the coming months, it would take us about 12 months to cover the costs of testing and reporting for all of the products shown below. However with just a handful people joining us each day in supporting this work with a small monthly gift of $2.oo or $3.oo a month, that timeline would be greatly reduced.
12. The 117 products included in thespreadsheet  below represent about 1/3 of the products we sent to the lab for independent, third-party laboratory testing in 2025 alone.
    • In 2025 we sent 268 products in to Purity Labs for testing
    • In 2025 we also sent 69 items in for testing via SimpleLab’s submission process
    • Together this represents a  total of 337 products sent to independent third party labs in 2025 to be tested for Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, and Arsenic through the Lead Safe Mama, LLC Community Collaborative Laboratory Testing Initiative.
13. To see our previous reports showing our allocations of gifted funds prior to June 8, 2025 (reports like this one), click this link: https://tamararubin.com/category/gifted-funds/
14. Thank you for supporting our work in all the ways!

If you have not yet joined us on Patreon, we would like to encourage you to do so. You can join us there for free OR with a small monthly contribution in support of our work. As you can see from the spreadsheet below, those small monthly contributions can make a big difference in increasing the sheer quantity of science-based, independent, third-party test results that we make freely available to the public (never behind a paywall) ! Here’s the link to join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/leadsafemama/membership

Our Patreon Membership stats as of today are as follows:
• We currently have 593 Paid Members
• Those Paid Members contribute a combined total of $1,733.00 a month in support of our work
• This brings the average gift from each of these paid members about $2,92 a month
• Our total Patreon Membership is 5,399 individuals!

Here’s a link to a PDF of the document shown in the images below.