ACCOUNTABILITY graphic from Axanar’s 2015 Indiegogo campaign page.

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This is an analysis of the publicly available information about Axanar’s Indiegogo campaign, launched in July 2015, and concluded in January 2016 after the filing of a copyright infringement lawsuit against Axanar Productions and executive producer Alec Peters by CBS and Paramount Pictures.

The campaign ended with a total $574,434 raised from 7,660 donors. However, 1,182 donors appeared to give without selecting perks. The analysis below is based only on the amount raised from donors who did choose perks ($496,645).¹⁾

The following figures demonstrate:

• Donors of small amounts (under $100) made up more than three-fourths of the total number of those who supported Axanar (Figure 1).
• However, those small donations only made up 40 percent of the total dollars raised (Figure 2).
• Just a sliver of donors (25, or 0.4 percent) made contributions of more than $1,000 (Figure 1). In fact, just seven donated $50,000 — 10 percent of what was raised from perk-picking contributors.
• Those 25 donors contributed almost one-fifth of the dollars raised (Figure 2).
• Meanwhile, mid-level donors (between $100-$600) were only a quarter of those who supported the campaign (Figure 1), but made up 43 percent of the total dollars raised (Figure 2).

The following chart displays the number of donors distributed across all the funding levels offered by the campaign.

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