Applications are now bineg being accepted for the Washington Youth & Families Fund for Projects Serving Families.
Donor Name: Building Changes
State: Washington
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/08/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Through the Washington Youth & Families Fund (WYFF), Building Changes partners with local organizations to test and expand innovative, culturally grounded strategies that promote housing stability, healing, and long-term wellbeing for families most impacted by homelessness
Through the WYFF grantmaking:
- Identify and test promising practices in partnership with providers and community
- Collect data and evaluate interventions, models, and programs
- Advance strategies informed by research, community experience, and lessons from previous cohorts to more intentionally guide future investments
- Support housing and service providers through peer learning, training, and capacity building.
Through WYFF, Building Changes provides funding, technical assistance, and capacity building to organizations and partnerships for up to three years per project. The Fund seeks to identify and test promising practices, collect and evaluate data, and advance strategies informed by research, community experience, and lessons from previous cohorts to more intentionally guide future investments. WYFF also supports housing and service providers through peer learning, training, and capacity building.
Strategic Objectives
- Building Changes aims to: Increase inclusion and equity in how families are defined and served, particularly for BIPOC, Pacific Islander, Asian, immigrant, refugee, and LGBTQIA2S+ households, which includes families of intersecting identities.
- Expand organizational capacity among providers to deliver housing and healing supports that are flexible, culturally responsive, and community-informed.
- Strengthen partnerships across sectors—housing, health, education, and community—to create more interconnected systems and reduce service duplication.
- Generate and share learning about what works, building statewide knowledge that informs future policy and funding decisions.
Funding Information
Building Changes will make available between $250,000- $500,000.
Target Population
- Families enrolled in or receiving housing services such as Rapid Re-Housing, Diversion, or Hotel/Motel assistance
- Families experiencing homelessness
- Families at-risk of homelessness
- Families in need of healing services
- One or more youth or adults, living with one or more children
- One or more adults over the age of 18 in combination with other adults or children who are reliant on one another, regardless of relationship.
- Family units consisting of one or more cohabitating adults over the age of 18 in combination with other adults or children, regardless of relationship
- One or more youth or adults with a child that is currently living away, but with a defined timeline for reunification that is within three months
- A person who is pregnant; expecting a child; navigating grief and healing following pregnancy or infant loss
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofit community or neighborhood-based organizations, regional/statewide nonprofit housing assistance organizations, federally recognized Indian Tribes, local housing authorities, and public development authorities are invited to apply.
- Culturally Specific Organizations or smaller organizations led and staffed by persons of color that primarily serve communities of color (By-For Organizations) are encouraged to apply, even if not currently delivering homeless and housing services. If selected as a grantee, Building Changes will provide training and technical assistance.
For more information, visit Building Changes.
