{
  "id": "BRD-058",
  "slug": "brd-058",
  "title": "Keep the charity evidence bundle together",
  "statement": "A charity brand must retain its organisation name, EIN, charity website and accreditation listing URL as proof of 501(c)(3) standing.",
  "rationale": "The charity claim is re-examined whenever a campaign under it is reviewed, and the four items are asked for together because each covers a different substitution — a real charity's name with someone else's EIN, a real EIN with a lookalike website. Charities that assembled the evidence once for the original submission and did not keep it end up rebuilding it under time pressure during a review.",
  "layer": "BRAND",
  "layerSlug": "brand",
  "object": "charity evidence bundle",
  "severity": "BLOCKING",
  "detectability": [
    "EXTERNAL_DATA"
  ],
  "failureClass": "TERMINAL_EVIDENCE",
  "authorities": [
    "T-Mobile",
    "Bandwidth",
    "Infobip"
  ],
  "applicability": {
    "useCases": [
      "CHARITY"
    ]
  },
  "applicabilityText": "Applies when the use case is CHARITY.",
  "universal": false,
  "remediation": "Keep one folder holding the registered organisation name, the EIN, the charity website URL and the accreditation listing URL, and keep it current — a lapsed Charity Navigator rating invalidates the bundle. Done when all four can be produced in a single reply to a review request.",
  "notes": "Evidence only the organisation holds. What the user must do is assemble the four items now and store them where whoever answers a carrier review can reach them, rather than relying on the person who filed the registration still being there.",
  "phase": "approval",
  "automated": false,
  "attestation": {
    "question": "Can one person produce all four items — registered organisation name, EIN, charity website, accreditation listing URL — in a single reply to a carrier review?",
    "howToCheck": [
      "Put the four in one folder where whoever answers a review can reach it, not with the person who happened to file the registration.",
      "Re-check the accreditation listing periodically: a lapsed Charity Navigator rating invalidates the bundle."
    ],
    "failureLooksLike": "The evidence was assembled once for the original submission and never kept. A campaign review arrives with a deadline and the bundle is rebuilt under time pressure."
  },
  "url": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-058/",
  "markdown": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/brand/brd-058.md",
  "registry": "https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/",
  "updated": "2026-07-25",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}