Announcing Episcopal Impact Fund 2025 Housing Security Grantee Cohort

As the Bay Area’s housing crisis deepens, we’re investing $320,000 in partners who provide secure, affordable homes—because stable housing is the first step toward lasting change.

3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic client receiving the keys to their new housing.

“At 3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic, we believe every young person deserves safety, stability, and the power to shape their future. With Episcopal Impact Fund’s support, we’re not only placing young people in housing—we’re investing in the healing, opportunity, and long-term belonging of Black and Brown youth in Bayview Hunters Point. We’re proud to walk alongside them as they build lives rooted in joy, safety, and purpose.” — Joi Jackson-Morgan, Executive Director, 3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic

Through our 2025 Housing Security Grant cohort, Episcopal Impact Fund continues its mission to combat the Bay Area's housing crisis by supporting organizations that provide permanent supportive housing or interim housing with comprehensive support services. These grants prioritize programs serving families, youth, and young adults, including those exiting the foster care system, women experiencing domestic violence, and immigrants.

Our 2025 Housing Security Grantee Cohort exemplify the Impact Fund's commitment to diverse housing solutions:

• 3rd Street Youth Center & Clinic provides accessible healthcare, mental health counseling, housing support, and education-focused programs to youth ages 12-27 in San Francisco. With this equitable access to care, youth are empowered to make healthy, informed decisions and build pathways to stable, successful futures. [$50,000]

• A Diamond in the Ruff, Incorporated offers an Independent Living Program dedicated to supporting single women and single mothers facing homelessness, domestic violence, addiction recovery, or reentry after incarceration. Housing is complemented by services such as case management, counseling, employment assistance, life skills training, and spiritual development to promote self-sufficiency and personal growth. They offer more than just a place to live, but a supportive environment where women can build a better future.  [$40,000]

• Asian Women’s Shelter promotes the social, economic, and political self-determination of women and all survivors of violence and oppression. Its comprehensive approach integrates culturally grounded and language-accessible crisis lines, emergency shelter, transitional housing, community engagement and violence prevention programs, training and education programs, systems and policy advocacy, and cultural change initiatives. [$50,000]

• Hijas del Campo aims to help migrant and seasonal farmworkers, along with their families, to improve their daily life, working conditions, health, and safety. By emphasizing health, food, housing, and education, they support their goal that every farmworker has access to basic necessities. [$50,000]

• Human Investment Project, Inc. (HIP Housing) supports individuals and families in San Mateo County seeking to find or remain in affordable housing. Their work seeks to prevent displacement and homelessness, maximize and preserve existing housing stock, and equip individuals with the support they need to stabilize their financial situation.  [$30,000]

• Oakland Elizabeth House (OEH) provides a nurturing, cooperative living environment for women and their children who have experienced homelessness, domestic violence, addiction, or poverty. Through individualized case management, education and employment support, parenting classes, and mental health resources, OEH empowers families to achieve self-sufficiency and transition into permanent housing.  [$50,000]

• Youth Employment Partnership (YEP) operates one of the highest-performing youth workforce development programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. YEP’s mission is to improve the employment and education outcomes for Oakland youth and young adults impacted by poverty, the justice system, foster care, homelessness, school underachievement and other barriers to work by providing transformative job training, critical skill building, and contextualized education paired with hands-on work experience in a living classroom.  [$50,000]

Through these grants, the Episcopal Impact Fund aims to equip vulnerable neighbors with the resources and opportunities needed for stability and long-term self-sufficiency.

“We are so grateful to Episcopal Impact Fund for supporting the work that is needed to continue to protect our essential farmworker community. Through this partnership, we are going to be able to take our Pilot Housing Project to the next level and continue building on what it means to have access to proper and dignified housing.” –Marivel Mendoza, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Hijas Del Campo