What is Aadi's Rocket Fund?

Aadi's Rocket Fund is a fund run by Aadi's family that pays for his engineering and rocket-building projects and his exploration of STEM, science and space. Contributions come from friends, family, events and supporters, and go toward model and construction kits, science materials, books, and museum and launch-day trips.

Are contributions to Aadi's Rocket Fund tax deductible?

No. The fund is run by Aadi's family and is not a registered charity, so contributions are not tax deductible.

How can I contribute to Aadi's Rocket Fund?

Choose an amount at https://www.aadhish.us/rocket-fund.html. Payments are handled by Stripe. Aadi Brand never sees or stores card details.

Aadi's Rocket Fund

Aadi is five. He builds rockets, explains the solar system at breakfast, and once designed a machine out of Lego to clear broken satellites out of orbit. The Rocket Fund keeps that going.

What the fund pays for

🚀 Rocket kits, launch-day trips, and the parts to build again after one does not work.
🏗️ Engineering and construction sets, from simple gear trains to the fiddly 150 piece ones.
🔬 Science experiments and the materials they quietly consume.
📚 Books about space, planets, machines, and how things actually work.
🔭 Museums, planetariums and science centres.

Pick an amount

Every contribution goes to the same place. Payments are handled by Stripe, and Aadi Brand never sees or stores your card details.

🚀 Rocket Fuel $5 Parts, glue and the small things a build always runs out of. Contribute $5 🔧 Booster Stage $25 Helps toward a model or construction kit. Contribute $25 🪐 Orbit $100 A bigger build, or a day at a science museum. Contribute $100

Who runs it. Aadi's Rocket Fund is run by Aadi's parents, who decide what it is spent on and keep the receipts.

Tax. The fund is not a registered charity, and contributions are not tax deductible. Please treat a contribution as a gift toward a child's projects rather than a charitable donation.

Questions. If you would like to know what the fund has paid for lately, or you are organising an event, email hello@aadibrand.com and a person will answer.

Why it exists

Every child is born curious. Keeping that alive turns out to be a practical problem as much as a philosophical one: it needs kits, batteries, glue, tickets and replacement parts.

The fund exists so that "let's find out" is never answered with "not this month". If you have ever watched a five year old rebuild a tower for the fourth time, you already understand the business case.

You can follow what he is building on the blog, or read the letters his dad writes him in Messages from Dad.