Standard Charging is A community-first charging network. Our public benefit purpose is part of our operating model, not just our marketing. Here’s how the 5% pledge actually works.
Five percent of Standard Charging’s gross annual revenue is committed to direct community infrastructure investments in the cities where we operate. This is a operating goal written into the legal entity itself, not a marketing promise.
Every city we work in gets a seat at the project-selection table. Annually, we meet with the host city’s public works or community development office to identify the year’s eligible projects. The city signs off on the priorities. We fund them. The Impact Report publishes the receipts.
The 5% comes off the top of profits, before any operating expenses. It is the first line item, every quarter, calculated and accrued automatically in our accounting system and held in a segregated bank account explicitly designated as the Impact Fund.
Each fiscal year we publish a Standard Charging Impact Report: total profits, the 5% calculation, a project-by-project breakdown by city with photographs and dollar amounts, charger network metrics, sponsor list, and a section on what didn’t go well and what we learned. Our first Impact Report covers fiscal year 2026 and will be published in early 2027.
We’re asking businesses to pay us to put their name on a public utility. The least we can do is make sure that public utility creates public good.