HomeWork 4 Heroes didn't start with a board meeting or a grant application. It started with two brothers who grew up watching their family serve — and who decided the best way to honor that service was to serve right back.
Grant and Jackson Mullins are military dependents. They grew up in a world shaped by deployment schedules, base relocations, and the quiet sacrifices that military families make without being asked. They saw firsthand what happens when a family gives everything to service and comes home to a house that needs more than they can manage alone.
That's where the idea took root. Not from a textbook or a nonprofit seminar — from lived experience. The Mullins brothers understood something most people talk about but few act on: the people who serve our communities deserve a community that serves them back.
The people who serve our communities deserve a community that serves them back.
They started small. A few classmates, a couple of rakes, one veteran's overgrown yard. But the model worked — students wanted meaningful work, and families needed real help. HomeWork 4 Heroes grew because the need was obvious and the solution was simple: show up, do the work, and let the results speak.
Today, the organization mobilizes high school and college students across Central Virginia to deliver free home maintenance, yard work, and relocation assistance to Veterans, First Responders, Teachers, and their families. Every project is hands-on. Every volunteer is a student. Every family served is someone who gave to this community first.
To mobilize student volunteers to provide free home maintenance and support services to Veterans, First Responders, Teachers, and their families in Central Virginia.
A community where no one who serves is left to struggle alone — and where the next generation leads the way in showing up for them.
We show up because it's right, not because it's easy.
Every family we serve is treated with respect. We don't do charity. We do community.
Students aren't assistants. They're the workforce, the organizers, the future.
Every dollar, every project, every outcome is accounted for. Trust is built by showing the work.
Grant is the younger of the two Mullins brothers and a co-founder of HomeWork 4 Heroes. He grew up as a military dependent, watching his family navigate the sacrifices that come with service — and in 2016, co-founded HomeWork 4 Heroes to put student volunteers to work for the Veterans, First Responders, Teachers, and families who serve Central Virginia.
Jackson is the older of the two Mullins brothers and a co-founder of HomeWork 4 Heroes. Growing up as a military dependent alongside Grant, he saw firsthand what military, first responder, and teacher families sacrifice for their communities — and helped turn that experience into an organization built to give back.
HomeWork 4 Heroes is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent permitted by law.
EIN: 93-2081051
Whether you have a few hours or a few dollars, there's a way to make this work happen.