Alabama · Nonprofit
RAISING MEN LAWN CARE INC
RAISING MEN LAWN CARE INC (Alabama) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,252 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($69,648). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $258k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $139k
- Net assets
- $270k
What Raising Men Lawn Care Inc does
Mission
Encourages youth to engage in community service through the 50 yard challenge: mowing lawns for free for the elderly, veterans, and those in need. Participants earn colored t-shirts as they reach milestones, fostering a global movement for community service and personal growth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, we recruited 420 more young people to volunteer in their communities by providing landscaping services to the elderly, disabled, single mothers, and veterans.achieved remarkable success, with over 800 children nationwide participating in our 50 yard challenge and more than 75 completing it this year.continued our mower of the month program to further engage participants in the challenge. This initiative, which honors one participant monthly, was a resounding success and will continue in the years ahead.we also released our debut childrens book, one lawn at a time, and were featured in multiple local and national events, helping spread the word about our mission and impact.in honor of a beloved community member we had mowed for since 2016, who passed away in 2022, we launched the mary gibbs scholarship fund. The fund will provide five $1,000 scholarships to deserving high school seniors who have completed our 50 yard challenge, with plans to expand.
$293,767 spent98% of program spendingIn 2024, we awarded grants totaling $7,023 to individuals in need and to worthy organizations across the united states. We are profoundly grateful for the generous support provided by our donors, which enables our organization to extend meaningful assistance to communities nationwide.during the christmas season, we visited a humane society, animal shelter, or animal refuge in every state. Through these visits, we proudly donated 192 bags of dog food (3,456 pounds) and 192 bags of cat food (605 pounds), helping to support the care and well-being of animals in need across the country.
$7,023 spentof which $7,023 as grants2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $300,790.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $253k to $414k (+64%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Rodney Smith Sr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $23k → $24k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of RAISING MEN LAWN CARE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
RAISING MEN LAWN CARE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund RAISING MEN LAWN CARE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 35% · 2022 38% · 2023 97% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
75% of RAISING MEN LAWN CARE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $35k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Alabama, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $104k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like RAISING MEN LAWN CARE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RAISING MEN LAWN CARE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RAISING MEN LAWN CARE INC?
- RAISING MEN LAWN CARE INC (Alabama) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $139,252 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($69,648). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RAISING MEN LAWN CARE INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $139,252 in grants to RAISING MEN LAWN CARE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAISING MEN LAWN CARE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $69,648 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAISING MEN LAWN CARE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing