Everything a donor should get to check.

Where the money goes

Most of what we spend goes to materials: lumber, fixtures, hardware, grab bars, dump fees, the parts that make a repair real. Most of the labor is donated by volunteers and partner tradespeople, so it costs us nothing.

It would be neat to claim that one hundred percent of donations become materials, so we want to be clear that it is not true, in two ways. First, not every job finds a volunteer. Some work needs a licensed trade, and some cannot wait for one to become available, so there are times we pay someone to do it. We would rather pay and get a neighbor safe than hold out for a donation that may not come. Second, a small share covers the things that let the organization function at all: insurance, filing fees, background checks for the people we send into homes, and basic software. We would rather name those costs than hide them inside a slogan.

Our current status

We are a new organization and we are not going to dress that up.

• Incorporated as a California nonprofit public benefit corporation on July 26, 2026. Articles of Incorporation approved and filed by the California Secretary of State, entity number B20260338999. The endorsed Articles are available on request.
• Federal EIN obtained from the IRS.
• 501(c)(3) application complete and going to the IRS in early August 2026. The one thing holding it is mechanical: the IRS will not accept an application until a newly issued EIN finishes entering their records, which takes about two weeks from assignment. Nothing else is outstanding.
• California Attorney General charity registration complete and being submitted now that our Articles are endorsed.
• Tax deductibility. Contributions are not deductible today, and we will not tell you otherwise before it is true. Here is the part worth knowing: because we are applying well inside the IRS window 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 the outcome, and we would rather you decide with that in front of you than find out later.
• Online donations processed by Givebutter. Card and bank details go straight to the processor and are never stored by us.
• Board of Directors with an independent Treasurer who receives no compensation from the organization.
• Written policies adopted: bylaws, a conflict of interest policy with annual disclosure, volunteer screening and agreements, and homeowner eligibility criteria.

How we handle conflicts

Two facts about this organization are worth stating plainly rather than leaving to be discovered. Our President and our Executive Director are domestic partners. And our Executive Director is our only paid position.

That arrangement is common in small nonprofits and it is also exactly the kind of thing that deserves scrutiny, so here is how it is structured. Compensation for the Executive Director is set in advance by the disinterested members of the board, with the President and the Executive Director both recused from the decision. It is based on documented data about what comparable roles pay, and it is deliberately set below market. The decision is recorded in writing at the time it is made, reviewed annually under the same procedure, and disclosed on our annual filings.

Every director and officer signs an annual conflict of interest disclosure. Our Treasurer serves without compensation and neither he nor his firm is engaged for paid work by the organization while he sits on the board.

What we will publish

As we complete our first year we will post our IRS determination letter, our annual information return, and a plain accounting of what we raised and what it bought. If you want to see any of our formation documents before then, ask and we will send them.