ZAO Fund Dashboard
The ZAO Fund for Emerging Culture is a community fund on Artizen, run by The ZAO, a music-first community of independent artists and builders. It curates independent artists and cultural projects, and every $10 Artifact a fan buys on one of them can unlock match from the fund, while its match lasts. This page is its scoreboard: what the fund has put to work, what is still available, and where it ranks - read from the fund's public Artizen page.
How ranking works: rank is money raised (sales + match unlocked); boosts win a share of the weekly Boost Bonus pot. We measure match deployed, not deposited.
Data as of Sep 19, 2026 - numbers move daily. Read from the fund's public Artizen page by scripts/refresh-fund.mjs.
This is the live lever. Every $10 the crew buys on a curated project unlocks match from this pool, at that week's Match Multiple, before the drive closes. Pick one horse, rally everyone, deploy the match. See the field for who has headroom.
The gap, stated plainly
Offered into the fund this season: $21,797 (fund page). Available this drive: $2,601. The fund still has match to give this drive; every Artifact bought on a ZAO Fund project draws on it while that project's match lasts.
Both figures are read from the fund's public Artizen page. A season-to-date "match unlocked" figure for one fund is not published on Artizen yet, so this page does not show one.
Fund - now
This drive's horse
Pick one project per drive, aim the whole crew at it, climb the leaderboard.
Projects we back
| Project | In fund | Other funds | Sales ($) | Rank | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| InfiniteZero Network | yes | Funding the Commons | $46,021 | #1 | #1 on the season board (Abraham Nash) |
| Edge Esmeralda 2026 | yes | Human Flourishing | $30,569 | #2 | Telamon Ardavanis (doc 674) |
| PolyRaiders (HuRya Empowerment Foundation) | no | - | $1,200 | #22 | Moses; curate in + boost push. Cause: dignity for girls (pads, education) |
| The Impact Concerts | yes | - | $30 | #32 | EZinCrypto; possible Jose tie (doc 745) |
| Marie Chain | after vote | - | TBD | TBD | applied; intro sent 2026-06-21 |
| COC Concertz | after vote | We're Loud / Global Music (target) | TBD | TBD | Thy Rev leads; 50/50 JV |
| WaveWarZ Zambia | after vote | Global Music (target) | TBD | TBD | Iman lead; pilot one artist |
Proof log
No drives logged yet. After each rally, add a row to proofLog in app/dashboard/data.ts: buyers moved, rank change, match deployed, win.
Cross-back targets
Get our projects curated into these funds too - each one adds its own slice of match to every Artifact sale (stacking). Pools from research; re-check live.
| Fund | Pool | Stack our projects |
|---|---|---|
| Greenpill Fund (Regen Gatherings) | $37,149 | ZAOstock, Zaoville |
| We're Loud Fund (DIY Music Festivals) | $3,784 | COC Concertz, ZAOstock, WaveWarZ Zambia |
| Global Music Fund | $256 | Thy Rev, COC Concertz, WaveWarZ Zambia, Impact Concerts |
| Bonfires Fund (Agentic Creativity) | $104 | ZOE / Hermes (ZAO KG partner) |
| Music + Healing Fund | $103 | COC Concertz |