Housing Stability
Since 2018, we have supported 86 nonprofit partners with more than $26 million in program grants.
Our programs are informed by what we learn from and with community members, including organizations and advocates, other funders, and families and youth who have direct expertise and experience in homelessness.
Early on, our programs aimed to catch families and youth before they fall into homelessness, and to increase the options available to community members moving out of homelessness and into stable homes.
That work deepened our knowledge and helped us identify ways to adapt to new and evolving challenges. Today, as the largest non-governmental funder in homelessness, we are focusing our efforts on reducing persistent disparities in homelessness that disproportionately affect families and youth of color.
Our Funding Approaches
We will invest in efforts that:
- Improve direct services, including work that helps prevent families and youth from becoming homeless, as well as helps them move out of homelessness and into stable housing
- Strengthen organizations, specifically culturally specific organizations, in shaping best practices and policies
- Center systems and solutions on the people affected and are accountable to those communities
We also aim to be nimble in our funding and support immediate and pressing community needs. This support is by invitation and at the discretion of the Foundation.
Our Beliefs
Every person has value, worth and dignity. Everyone deserves a safe place to call home.
- Stable housing is the foundation from which we build our lives. Our homes are fundamental to our quality life, providing us with refuge, stability, tradition and belonging.
- People are experts in their own experience. To achieve lasting solutions, we must listen to those with lived experience.
- Homelessness is the result of multiple systemic failures including discriminatory practices and policies – not simply one’s choices.
- Our communities – public, private and philanthropy – have the assets and influence needed to solve homelessness.
