Your Gift Keeps the Whole System Running.
We don’t pay for mowing — every volunteer donates their time freely. Your tax-deductible gift funds the coordination platform, insurance, equipment, outreach, and logistics that turn a request for help into a real volunteer showing up.
Donations are always optional, never required for service, and do not guarantee or prioritize help. They sustain the infrastructure that makes connections possible.
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Every Dollar Goes Back Into the Mission
We are 100% volunteer-powered with no paid salaries. Every dollar is deposited into our nonprofit business account and reinvested into mission operations — insurance, equipment, outreach, technology, and coordination.
From Donation to Doorstep — Here’s What You Activate
Your gift doesn’t just sit in a fund. It powers a real coordination system that turns every request for help into a real-world visit. Here’s what happens behind the scenes:
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A Request Comes In
A homeowner, family member, caretaker, or case manager submits a request for free lawn care relief through our intake form or by calling 862-66-MOWER.
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We Review and Route It
Our custom platform processes the request — verifying details, protecting privacy, and preparing it for volunteer matching.
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Nearby Volunteers Are Surfaced
The system identifies enrolled volunteers in the area and surfaces the request through our coordination tools and the MOW app.
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Safe Communication Happens
Volunteers and recipients connect through privacy-minded workflows — no personal information is shared publicly.
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A Volunteer Shows Up
A real person — with their own time, equipment, and willingness — arrives to provide temporary lawn care relief. No contracts. No invoices. Just a neighbor helping a neighbor.
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Impact Gets Tracked
Hours logged, before-and-after photos captured, verified volunteer profiles updated. Every visit is recorded so the work is visible and accountable.
Your donation doesn’t pay for mowing. It funds the system that makes every one of these steps possible — from the first request to the final photo.
What Your Gift Makes Possible
Every request that reaches us carries a real story. Here are a few of the situations your support helps address:
Easing Fines for Older Adults
Helping grandparents avoid municipal penalties for overgrown lawns they maintained for decades but can no longer manage on their own.
Acts of Gratitude for Veterans
Honoring veterans — including those still navigating the long-term effects of service — with a simple, tangible act of care for their home.
Relief During Life’s Hardest Moments
Maintaining a home for a family in the middle of hospice care, a widow navigating a move alone, or a neighbor facing a disability that makes outdoor work impossible.
Every one of these stories started the same way — someone made a donation, and a volunteer showed up.
Volunteers Donate Labor. Your Gift Funds Everything Else.
Every volunteer who shows up donates their time freely — no one is paid. But the system that connects them to the people who need help doesn’t run on goodwill alone.
Your donation funds the invisible layers that make every visit possible:
- Liability insurance that protects every volunteer on every visit
- Battery-powered equipment for safer, quieter, eco-friendly service
- The coordination platform that processes requests, routes them, and manages communication
- Outreach that reaches older adults, veterans, and families who need help but don’t know we exist
- Fuel, storage, and logistics that keep the operation moving
That foundation powers the volunteers: 1,473+ hours of donated service to neighbors who needed help.
We have no paid salaries. We are building a model that scales genuine kindness without scaling overhead.
Your Gift Powers Connections — Not Contracts. We don’t pay for mowing. Your donation ensures we can keep connecting neighbors who need help with neighbors who want to give it.
— The IWTMYL Mission
Meet Volunteers Ready to Help
People across the country have signed up to help a neighbor. Here are a few of them.
John
La Mesa, CADriven by a desire to help others facing challenges, especially seniors with mobility issues who struggle to maintain their yards.
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Todd
churchville, PABlessed in many ways and eager to pay it forward within the community.
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Ruowen
Katy, TXInspired to influence younger generations in improving nature and society for a better future.
View Profile →Real Numbers. Real Neighbors. Real Volunteers.
Every figure below represents a real neighbor, a real yard, and a volunteer who chose to show up.
Completed
Impact
Nationwide
Active Coverage
*Estimated at a $150 national-average value per visit — free help for neighbors who generally can’t afford or can’t physically do the work themselves, reflecting impact created rather than business taken from local landscapers.
A Charity You Can Verify
I Want To Mow Your Lawn Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN: 85-3447661). Contributions are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. We hold a Silver Seal of Transparency on Candid (GuideStar). View our full financial profile.
Our story has been featured in over 300 media outlets globally — TV, radio, print, and online — including support from actress Drew Barrymore. See our media coverage. View our IRS determination letter.
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Choose How You’d Like to Help
Give financially, put equipment to work, or help more people discover the mission.
Give Financially
Support the mission by text, check, digital payment, donor-advised fund, or workplace giving.
Text to Donate
Text 4LAWN to 707070
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I Want To Mow Your Lawn Inc.
PO Box 3572 · Wayne, NJ 07474-3572
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Give Equipment
Have a mower or landscaping tool gathering dust? Donate it for good, lend it for an agreed period, or purchase a needed item from our registry.
Approved equipment is put to work by volunteers helping older adults, veterans, and neighbors in need.
Help in Other Ways
Shop official gear, start a fundraiser, use Walmart Spark Good, or simply share the mission with your community.
Donation acknowledgments are available for qualifying non-cash gifts. We describe donated property but do not assign its value. Please consult your tax adviser regarding deductibility.
Help More People Discover the Mission
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Every Lawn We Touch Begins With
Someone Choosing to Help.
Your gift does not pay someone to mow. It supports the coordination, technology, insurance, equipment, and outreach that turn generosity into real-world relief.
