Volunteers give most of the days. Donations buy the grab bar, the lumber, the dump fee, and a paid pro when a job needs one. Here is exactly what that means.
One-time or monthly, by card, bank transfer, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, or Venmo. You will get a receipt by email.
Our 501(c)(3) application goes to the IRS in early August 2026. Contributions are not tax-deductible until they issue the determination letter, which once granted applies retroactively to July 26, 2026.
A volunteer will give you a Saturday. A tradesperson will waive a service call. But nobody donates the grab bar, the lumber, the fixture, or the dump fee. And not every job finds a volunteer: sometimes the work needs a licensed trade, or it cannot wait, and the honest answer is that we pay someone to do it. Donations close both gaps, and they are small enough that ordinary gifts matter here in a way they do not at a large organization.
These are honest averages from the kind of work we do, not marketing tiers. Some jobs cost less. Some cost more.
Lumber, fixtures, hardware, and gift cards to a home improvement store are as useful as cash and sometimes more so. If you are a supplier or a contractor, materials donated at your cost are generally deductible in a way that donated labor is not.
Some donors prefer to fund one specific household and hear how it went. We can do that, and we will tell you what it cost and what changed.
It is worth saying that we need hands and trucks as badly as we need money. If giving time fits you better, start here.
Where we stand on tax deductibility. We are a California nonprofit public benefit corporation, incorporated July 26, 2026, with our federal EIN in hand and our 501(c)(3) application complete and going to the IRS in early August. Until they issue the determination letter, contributions are not tax-deductible, and we will not tell you otherwise before it is true.
The part worth knowing: because we are applying well inside the window the IRS allows for it, exempt status once granted applies retroactively to July 26, 2026. A gift made today would become deductible for this tax year. We cannot guarantee that outcome, and we would rather you decide with the facts in front of you than find out later.
Prefer not to give online? Email us and we will arrange a check, a materials donation, or a project sponsorship personally.
Every gift goes to work on a specific neighbor's job in San Diego County.
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