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Mission Charter
Yard Reboot Project, Inc. is an Austin, Texas based 501(c)(3) public charity and earned-income social enterprise. Our charter names exactly who our free relief work is for.
Charter & Beneficiaries
Every neighborhood has people who deserve to feel proud of where they live. We bring the crew, the mowers, and the plants at no charge. Then we share the story so the next family gets the same care. No applications to agonize over, no bills afterward, and no one losing the home they've spent a lifetime in because the grass got away from them.
Many of our senior neighbors kept beautiful yards for forty years, and then the body simply stopped cooperating. A mower becomes dangerous, a ladder becomes unthinkable, and commercial crews quote $300 to $1,200 a visit against a fixed income that has no room in it. Pride keeps most of them from asking, so the growth wins quietly, month by month. We come out free, we work at the pace the day allows, and we never make anyone explain why they fell behind.
For service-connected disabled veterans and older service members, maintaining a steep or heavily overgrown Central Texas lot can become an impossible physical burden. Unchecked vegetation quickly triggers aggressive municipal code citations ($200 to $2,000 per day), risking tax liens and housing security. Yard Reboot Project steps in with 100% free mechanized brush clearance, wheelchair pathway excavation, and fire hazard mitigation. Our programs proudly honor and serve veterans of the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and Coast Guard.
Recovery asks for everything a person has. After surgery, through chemotherapy, or while living with a chronic condition that decides how each morning goes, the yard is the first thing to slip and the hardest thing to watch slip. Caregivers are already stretched thin holding the household together. Our crews take that one worry off the list entirely, at no cost, so the only job left at home is healing. Rest is the work right now. We will handle the rest.
A citation letter can turn overgrowth into an emergency overnight. Central Texas cities assess $200 to $2,000 a day, and unpaid fines can grow into liens that put a paid-off home at risk. Add dry brush stacked against a wall or a walkway an ambulance crew cannot reach, and the stakes stop being cosmetic. We mobilize inside the cure window, clear the hazard, and hand over dated photos that close the case. No judgment about how it got this far, just a deadline met and a family still in their home.
This organization supports U.S. veterans and service members; however, it is not officially connected to, sponsored by, or endorsed by the U.S. Department of Defense or any branch of the Armed Forces.
The Impact Multiplier
Every dollar of net profit goes straight back out the gate as free relief for a neighbor who cannot pay. Hiring us is the donation.
Slide to your estimated project size. Every dollar of net profit becomes free yard care for a neighbor who cannot pay.
Estimates based on our average relief project: roughly $700 of yard care and about $500 in municipal code fines avoided per household. Yard Reboot Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity.
3 bi-weekly lawn clients for a year, about $6,100 of paid work
About $1,350 of net profit, enough for nearly two complete $700 senior yard rescues
1 commercial or HOA grounds contract, about $12,000 a year
About $2,640 of net profit: 35 crew hours, roughly three free yards, and about $1,750 in code fines lifted
100% net profit reinvestment
$0 cost to at-risk homeowners and $0 cost to taxpayers
If the yard has gotten ahead of you, or you know a neighbor in that spot, tell us here. Our crew brings the mowers, the hauling trailer and the plants. There is no cost and no paperwork.
Want to see how this is paid for? Read how paid projects fund free relief.
Our Promise
The counter is honest and it updates the moment a gift clears our secure Zeffy giving form: $0 raised, 0 neighbors served. There is a senior on a fixed income staring at a code violation she cannot afford to fix. Your gift is the sound of a mower starting in her driveway.
Raised so far, waiting on our first giftLive total from our secure Zeffy giving form plus gifts logged by staff.
$0 / $250,000
Every dollar is tracked publicly on this page, and 100% of net profit from our paid crews funds free rescues.
