Harry's

The Politics at a Glance

Harry's has taken clear, public sides on LGBTQ issues. Since 2019 it has partnered with The Trevor Project, a suicide prevention group for LGBTQ youth, and has said it gives the group the proceeds of its annual Pride razor set [5][6]. In a 2017 post on the company's blog, co-founder Andy Katz-Mayfield wrote that Harry's offered 16 weeks of paid parental leave to "men, women, transgender, birthing parents and non-birthing parents" [7]. The parent company's careers page now lists 20 fully paid weeks of leave for parents who give birth and 16 fully paid weeks for all other paths to parenthood [8]. In 2021 Harry's ended its advertising on a Daily Wire podcast, saying views in one of the show's videos were at odds with its support of the LGBTQ+ community [9]. Its Pride work drew a wave of conservative criticism on social media in 2023 [10]. On the money side, the federal record shows no corporate PAC, and the only federal lobbying on file is a short engagement in 2020 [11].

Where the Political Signal Actually Lives

Harry's leaves a very thin federal campaign finance trail. It is a private company, so it does not file the regular reports that public companies must file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A search of OpenSecrets and FEC records returned no corporate political action committee for Harry's or for its parent, Mammoth Brands (accessed August 2026). Federal lobbying records show one short engagement. In April 2020, Harry's USA, Inc. hired the lobbying firm Ballard Partners to work on "government relief programs" [11]. The firm reported contacting the Treasury Department, ended the engagement on May 12, 2020, and reported $30,000 in income from Harry's for the second quarter of 2020 [12]. A search of the federal lobbying database found no other registration for Harry's or Mammoth Brands (accessed September 2026). That is a federal finding only. It does not cover state-level giving or the personal political donations of the founders, neither of which was examined for this profile. The clearest political signals from Harry's come not from campaign checks but from where it points its brand, its advertising, and its charitable dollars.

The Trevor Project Partnership

Harry's has partnered with The Trevor Project since 2019 and has said it gives the group all of the proceeds from its annual Pride razor set [5][6]. The Trevor Project runs a 24/7 phone, text, and chat crisis line for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning young people. In June 2024, it said Harry's was donating $400,000 that year, bringing the total to more than $2.1 million [6]. It also says the two have connected nearly one million LGBTQ youth to care over five years [6]. Harry's ran an earlier Pride campaign before the Trevor partnership. In its own awards entry, Harry's said that campaign sent all of its profits, a total of $130,000, to GLAAD and other LGBTQ organizations, and described the campaign as showing its "progressive values" [13]. Harry's has said its Pride packaging was designed by LGBTQ artists [5][13].

The Daily Wire Split

In March 2021, Harry's stopped advertising on The Michael Knowles Show, a podcast from the conservative outlet The Daily Wire [9]. The move followed a listener's complaint about a video from the show [9]. In a public statement, Harry's said it condemned "the views in this video" and called them "at odds with our longtime support of the LGBTQ+ community" [9]. A year later, in March 2022, The Daily Wire launched its own razor line, Jeremy's Razors, which MediaPost described as razors for people who hate "woke" advertisers [14]. Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing later said that when Harry's pulled its ads, "at that very moment, I knew we had to launch a razor company" [15].

The 2023 Backlash

In 2023, a viral social media campaign targeted Harry's over a Pride set from the year before. An account called End Wokeness posted about the 2022 set and a creator who had promoted it, and the post drew nearly 4.9 million views [10]. Posters urged people to stop giving the company their money, and The Daily Beast compared the pile-on to that year's campaigns against Bud Light and Target [10]. This kind of consumer backlash is reader context, not a measure of how the company spends politically. Harry's kept its Trevor Project partnership going after the campaign [6].

The Men's Mental Health Mission

Harry's built a giving program around men's mental health from its early days. The company says it donates one percent of its sales, not its profits, to nonprofits in that area. It puts the Harry's brand's total at $16 million [16][17]. The parent company says it has given more than $20 million across all of its brands [4]. Harry's partners have included Headstrong, which treats post-traumatic stress in veterans, and A Call to Men, which runs violence prevention programs for boys [17]. In 2021 the company put a single $5 million grant toward a coalition working on young men's mental health [18]. Harry's has said it narrowed its giving to men's mental health in 2019 and counts LGBTQ people among the at-risk groups it focuses on [5]. The general mental health giving supports an under-served health need and is included here as background, separate from the LGBTQ advocacy above.

Founders, Ownership, and a German Factory

Jeff Raider and Andy Katz-Mayfield founded Harry's, and the company dates its founding to 2013 [4]. They are co-chief executives of the parent, Mammoth Brands. Since April 2025, a separate chief executive, John Butcher, has run the Harry's and Flamingo brands [19]. Raider also co-founded the eyewear brand Warby Parker [1].

Harry's drew a giant's attention early. About two months after Harry's launched in 2013, Gillette sued it for patent infringement, then quickly withdrew the suit [20]. In January 2014, just ten months after launch, Harry's bought Feintechnik, a German company that has made razor blades since 1920, for about $100 million [21]. Owning its own factory was an unusual move for a young online brand. The company has raised money from venture capital and private equity investors over the years. No single outside owner holds public, controlling ownership on the record, so those investors are noted here as context rather than as the company's political voice.

Products and Where to Find Them

Harry's sells razors, blades, shave gel, skin care, and deodorant, first by mail subscription and now also on store shelves [4]. Its products are carried at Target and Walmart, among other retailers [22]. Under the Mammoth Brands umbrella, its sibling brands include Flamingo for women, Lume, and Mando [4]. Shoppers can buy directly at harrys.com.

Recent News

In April 2025, Harry's, Inc. renamed itself Mammoth Brands and said it wants to build a larger family of consumer brands [4]. The company said it had about $835 million in revenue in 2024 and nearly $100 million in adjusted EBITDA, a profit measure that leaves out interest, taxes, and some other costs [4]. In October 2025 it agreed to buy the baby care brand Coterie; Mammoth did not disclose the price [23]. Reuters reported in March 2024 that the company had filed confidentially for a public stock offering; the company has not publicly confirmed the filing [24].

Footnotes

[1] TechCrunch, "Razor startup Harry's will be acquired by Edgewell Personal Care for $1.37B," May 9, 2019. https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/09/edgewell-acquires-harrys

[2] Federal Trade Commission, "FTC Files Suit to Block Edgewell Personal Care Company's Acquisition of Harry's, Inc.," February 3, 2020. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2020/02/ftc-files-suit-block-edgewell-personal-care-companys-acquisition-harrys-inc

[3] Federal Trade Commission, "Statement of Daniel Francis, Deputy Director of FTC Bureau of Competition, Regarding Announcement that Edgewell Personal Care Company has Abandoned Its Proposed Acquisition of Harry's, Inc.," February 10, 2020. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2020/02/statement-daniel-francis-deputy-director-ftc-bureau-competition-regarding-announcement-edgewell

[4] Mammoth Brands (Business Wire), "Harry's Inc. Rebrands as 'Mammoth Brands' to Reflect Growing Portfolio of Brands," April 9, 2025. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250409094026/en/

[5] Shorty Awards, "Harry's Pride 2022 Initiative" (entry submitted by Harry's). https://shortyawards.com/7th-impact/harrys-pride-2022-initiative

[6] The Trevor Project (Trevor News), "Harry's Proudly Supports The Trevor Project," June 10, 2024. https://www.thetrevorproject.org/blog/harrys-proudly-supports-the-trevor-project/

[7] Andy Katz-Mayfield, Five O'Clock (Harry's company blog), "When Work Isn't Your Only Baby," June 9, 2017. https://fiveoclock.harrys.com/2017/06/09/when-work-isnt-your-only-baby/

[8] Mammoth Brands, "Careers," mammothbrands.com. Accessed September 2026. https://www.mammothbrands.com/careers

[9] Michael Lee, Washington Examiner, "Harry's razors cancels advertising relationship with a Daily Wire show ostensibly over one Twitter user's complaint," March 22, 2021. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/565518/

[10] Brooke Leigh Howard, The Daily Beast, "Far-Right Snowflakes Just Can't Get Over 'Woke' Razor Brand Harry's," August 7, 2023. https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-snowflakes-just-cant-get-over-woke-razor-brand-harrys/

[11] Ballard Partners, Lobbying Registration (LD-1), client Harry's USA, Inc., signed April 19, 2020, U.S. Lobbying Disclosure Act database. https://lda.gov/filings/public/filing/6a33467c-dec7-4e87-9948-2dc6914abaa3/print/

[12] Ballard Partners, Second Quarter 2020 Termination Report (LD-2), client Harry's USA, Inc., July 19, 2020, U.S. Lobbying Disclosure Act database. https://lda.gov/filings/public/filing/60b5e8d1-504c-4600-8815-4f920025b2b6/print/

[13] Shorty Awards, "Harry's Shave with Pride" (entry submitted by Harry's). https://shortyawards.com/3rd-socialgood/proud

[14] Todd Wasserman, MediaPost, "Conservative Publisher Launches Razors For Those Who Hate 'Woke' Advertisers," March 24, 2022. https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/372384/conservative-publisher-launches-razors-for-those-w.html

[15] Amanda Prestigiacomo, The Daily Wire, "'At That Very Moment, I Knew We Had To Launch A Razor Company': Jeremy Boreing Talks 'Jeremy's Razors' Conception, Purpose," March 22, 2022. https://www.dailywire.com/news/at-that-very-moment-i-knew-we-had-to-launch-a-razor-company-jeremy-boreing-talks-jeremys-razors-conception-purpose

[16] Harry's, "Social Mission," harrys.com. Accessed September 2026. https://www.harrys.com/en/pages/social-mission

[17] Built In NYC, "Here's Why Harry's Created a Role Dedicated to Social Impact and Men's Mental Health," February 25, 2020. https://builtinnyc.com/2020/02/25/harrys-mission-matters

[18] Ben Sherry, Inc., "Harry's Handsome Contribution to Men's Mental Health," 2023. https://www.inc.com/magazine/202312/ben-sherry/harrys-handsome-contribution-to-mens-mental-health.html

[19] Mammoth Brands, "Welcoming John Butcher, our New CEO of Harry's and Flamingo," April 15, 2025. https://www.mammothbrands.com/news/welcoming-john-butcher-our-new-ceo-of-harry-s-and-flamingo

[20] Jeff Harder, Boston Globe Magazine, "The razor wars have begun and somebody's going to get hurt," June 21, 2017. https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2017/06/21/the-razor-wars-have-begun-and-somebody-going-get-hurt/WbNBl0OSk1BgiHFZdkp16M/story.html

[21] Rip Empson, TechCrunch, "10-Month-Old Harry's Lands $122.5M, Buys 93-Year-Old Factory To Take On Shaving Heavyweights, Gillette And Schick," January 22, 2014. https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/22/10-month-old-harrys-lands-122-5m-buys-93-year-old-factory-to-go-toe-to-toe-with-gillette-and-schick

[22] The Spokesman-Review (from The New York Times), "Harry's Razor brand seeks to build a consumer goods empire," April 9, 2025. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/apr/09/harrys-razor-brand-seeks-to-build-a-consumer-goods/

[23] Mammoth Brands, "Mammoth Brands Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Premium Baby Care Brand Coterie," October 16, 2025. https://www.mammothbrands.com/news/mammoth-brands-announces-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-premium-baby-care-brand-coterie

[24] Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, Inc., "Report: Harry's Files Confidentially to IPO," March 8, 2024. https://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/report-harrys-files-confidentially-to-ipo.html