Josh from Elevate and Chris Jackson of Jackstacks.Eats outside Wichita WinSupply, next to the Elevate van

Elevate Heating & Cooling · Wichita, KS

The Neighbor Fund

This summer we gave one family a whole new system. Then the phone kept ringing. The Neighbor Fund is how we keep saying yes.

I need help I want to sponsor

What happened this summer

We didn’t see this coming

We’re Elevate Heating & Cooling. Wichita’s own, family run, and we don’t do anything halfway.

This summer we ran a giveaway for a full AC and furnace system. Anyone could enter by sending us their story. We read every single one and scored them the same way: how much the family actually needed it, how honest the story was, and how tied in they were to this community. Chris Jackson of Jackstacks.Eats helped us get the word out a lot further than we could have on our own.

The system went to Hannah and Murl Brown out in Haysville. Three girls, five years on window units. Wichita WinSupply donated the matching furnace so the whole system could go in at once.

Then the calls started. People we’d never met, telling us their own version of the same story. A system that’s been dead for months. No money to fix it. Kids sleeping in a hot house.

We can’t give everybody a free system. We can’t fix everybody’s system for free either. But we’re not going to act like those calls didn’t happen. So we built the Neighbor Fund.

Chris and Josh at the Browns' front door in Haysville, Hannah laughing and holding her daughter — The day we showed up at the Browns’ door. Haysville, KS.

Hannah & Murl Brown · Haysville, KS

"It was beyond belief."

Hannah Brown, on the day we showed up at her door. Read the full story from KWCH12.

As seen on KWCH12

Kansas Proud

KWCH12 news segment, August 2026. Equipment by Champion. Furnace donated by Wichita WinSupply. Made possible with Jackstacks.Eats and #SharetheLove.

Hannah Brown on the couch with her three daughters, from the KWCH12 story — Hannah and the girls at home. From the KWCH12 story.

Why we’re doing this

Comfortable at home should be the standard

Everyone deserves a house that cools down in July and warms up in January. That’s the whole reason we started this company.

When KWCH12 came out to cover the Browns, we told them it was the highlight of our career. Not because of the cameras. Because of what Hannah said after: “My girls can sleep comfortably at night now.”

The Neighbor Fund is how we make that happen for the next family, and the one after that. Not another one-time giveaway. Something that runs all year.

Three moving parts

How the fund works

No middleman. No overhead. Sponsor money and salvaged parts going onto real invoices for real families.

Sponsors cover the labor and equipment

A local business or a neighbor pays for a repair or a full install for a family they’ve never met. That money goes onto the family’s invoice, same as any other customer’s payment. Our techs get paid for the work like any other job.

An Elevate technician brazing a refrigerant line on a job

Families apply the same way the Browns did

Send us your story. An email, a note, a photo, a video, whatever’s easiest. A real person reads it and you get an answer. Then a tech comes out for a diagnostic, so what happens next is based on what’s actually wrong with your system, not on who tells the best story.

Salvaged parts bring the cost down

When we pull a good contactor or condenser fan motor off a system we’re replacing, we keep it. If it matches what you need and it’s legal to reuse under EPA refrigerant rules, the part itself costs nothing. A sponsor still covers the labor to put it in, which is what makes that free part actually turn into cold air.

Sponsor a neighbor

Pick a level. It goes on a real job.

These are starting points, not prices. A sponsorship goes as far as it goes: $500 might be one bigger repair or it might be four small ones. Tell us where you want yours to go and it goes there. Otherwise we combine sponsorships and put the money where the need is, and diagnosed jobs get funded first so nobody sits waiting.

Work Order · Diagnostic

$95

Diagnostic

Gets a tech to the door. A full look at the system and a written scope of what it needs. This is the step that takes a family out of limbo, and it’s where every job starts.

Work Order · Repair

$500

Sponsor a repair

Gets a tech out and covers a typical single-part fix. Contactors, capacitors, condenser fan motors, the parts that fail when it’s 100 degrees out. On cheaper fixes it stretches across more than one house.

Work Order · Repair

$750

Sponsor a bigger repair

Reaches the jobs $500 can’t: motors, boards, a leak search and refrigerant, more than one part on the same visit. Or it clears several smaller repairs off the list in a week.

Work Order · Repair

$1,000

Sponsor a major repair

The big fixes that keep an older system alive a few more years instead of replacing it. Blower motors, control boards, coil work, the long days. Or a handful of families back in cold air by the weekend.

Work Order · Custom

Any amount

Custom sponsorship

Pick a number, or pick a job. Once a family has been diagnosed we know exactly what their repair costs, so you can fund that one. Already know someone who needs help? Call us and we’ll walk them into the process and you can sponsor them by name.

Work Order · Install

$6,500–$8,500

Sponsor a full system

About what the Browns’ system cost, start to finish. A full AC and furnace install for a family who’s been getting by on window units or a system that already quit. Can be split across sponsors.

Churches

When a church sponsors a job, parts go through at our cost with no markup. All of it goes to the work.

Veterans

When the family being helped is a veteran, we cut our markup in half. That applies whether the sponsor knows them or we matched them off the list.

Businesses and churches

Sponsoring as an organization

Small businesses, larger companies, churches, and civic groups are all welcome here, and we’d rather talk it through than have you guess from a web page. Recurring sponsorships, matching a set number of jobs a year, covering a specific household you already know about, or splitting a full system with other sponsors are all on the table. Call or email and we’ll lay out exactly how the money moves, where it lands, and what your name goes on.

316-375-7308 or neighborfund@elevatekspros.com

Up front: this is not a charity. Elevate Solutions LLC is a for-profit heating and cooling company. Sponsoring a job here is paying someone else’s bill, not a tax-deductible donation. We’d rather tell you that plainly than have you find out later. Every sponsored job gets a real invoice with the sponsor listed as the payer.

Good parts don’t get scrapped

Free parts for the people who need them

Every replacement job leaves parts behind that still have life in them. If a part is spec-matched and legal to reuse, it goes to a neighbor instead of the scrap pile, at no cost for the part. The labor to install it is still real work, so that piece gets sponsored like any other job. A salvaged part doesn’t make a repair free. It makes it a lot cheaper to sponsor.

Contactors Condenser fan motors Fan blades Capacitors EPA refrigerant compliant only

The line

Not a popularity contest

The giveaway was one winner. This is a line, and a line only works if it’s fair. So here’s how we run it.

You hear back

Every application gets read by a person and gets a real answer. Within 30 days of applying you’ve either had a tech at your house or you know exactly where you stand. Nobody gets left in limbo.

Worst off goes first

No heat or no cooling in dangerous weather, with kids, elderly, or medical needs in the home, moves to the front. Then systems that are fully down. Then systems that are limping. Inside each group, it’s first come, first served.

Diagnostic before anything

A tech comes out and puts real eyes on the system. That visit decides what you need and what it costs. Your story gets you in the line. The diagnostic decides the work.

Diagnosed jobs get funded first

Once we know what a repair costs, that job goes to sponsors before we start new ones. If you’ve been waiting 30 days without a diagnostic, you move up. Likes and shares don’t move anyone anywhere.

"It's nice to see that there's still good out there. People willing to go above and beyond."

Murl Brown, Haysville, KS, on install day

Get in touch

Need help, or want to help?

Need help

Your system is down and money is tight. Call or email and tell us your story, same as Hannah did.

Call 316-375-7308

Or email neighborfund@elevatekspros.com

Online sponsorship and applications are coming soon. Until then, a call or an email gets you on the list.

The Neighbor Fund

We didn’t see this coming

Kansas Proud

Comfortable at home should be the standard

How the fund works

Sponsors cover the labor and equipment

Families apply the same way the Browns did

Salvaged parts bring the cost down

Pick a level. It goes on a real job.

Sponsoring as an organization

Free parts for the people who need them

Not a popularity contest

You hear back

Worst off goes first

Diagnostic before anything

Diagnosed jobs get funded first

Need help, or want to help?

Need help

Want to sponsor