Goal Area 1: Housing Stability & Food Security
Below is summary information for the human services programs funded by the City for 2025 that support housing stability and food security.
| GOAL AREA 1 - AT A GLANCE |
| Total Funds Allocated for 2025 |
$1,591,092 |
| Total Organizations Funded |
21 |
BIPOC Organizations
|
4 (19%) |
| Total Programs Funded |
34 |
Organization: 4 Tomorrow
Program: Housing & Homelessness Recovery Program
BIPOC Organization: Yes
Amount Funded (2025): $45,000
Program Overview: Provides emergency hotel/motel stays for recently displaced or evicted community members while providing coordination and resources for recovery.
Organization: 4 Tomorrow
Program: Rent, Mortgage & Move In Assistance
BIPOC Organization: Yes
Amount Funded (2025): $272,079
Program Overview: Offers emergency rental, move-in, and mortgage assistance for low to moderate income households in East King County who are experiencing financial or housing instability.
Organization: Archdiocesan Housing Authority
Program: New Bethlehem Programs
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025) : $107,000
Program Overview: Meets the unmet need for 24/7/365 shelter and essential day center services for families experiencing homelessness on the Eastside. The program offers a safe place for families to land, and a centralized location for access to the supportive programming needed to help families transcend their situation and move into permanent housing.
Organization: City of Kirkland
Program: Severe Weather Vouchers
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025) : $10,000
Program Overview: Provides hotel vouchers for unhoused individuals during severe weather events.
Organization: Eastside Legal Assistance Program (ELAP)
Program: Housing Stability
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $154,000
Program Overview: Provides civil legal services to people facing housing-related challenges. ELAP's staff attorneys help people navigate the legal system, so people can stay in their home or secure new housing.
Organization: Eat Happy Now
Program: Food Rescue & Delivery
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $5,000
Program Overview: Addressing food security in real-time by delivering fresh, surplus meals and produce to food-insecure residents at food banks, homeless shelters and community centers.
Organization: Essentials First
Program: World Food Program
BIPOC Organization: Yes
Amount Funded (2025): $10,000
Program Overview: Bulk distribution of essential personal and household hygiene supplies to local partner food banks for delivery to clients alongside existing food programs.
Organization: Friends of Youth
Program: Willows Youth Services Center
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $117,433
Program Overview: 24/7 emergency shelter and drop-in facility for young adults (18-24).
Organization: Friends of Youth
Program: Youth Haven
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $6,688
Program Overview: Emergency shelter for children and youth.
Organization: HERO House NW
Program: Supported Housing
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $25,000
Program Overview: Provides both supportive and transitional housing services that assist our members with finding and maintaining affordable housing.
Organization: Hopelink
Program: Emergency Food
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $63,713
Program Overview: Hopelink’s food program provides food for nourishment and to supplement the income of households that make below 400% of the Federal Poverty Level. Home delivery is also available for homebound individuals and emergency bags provide an immediate solution to a hunger crisis.
Organization: Hopelink
Program: Family Development
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $24,824
Program Overview: A voluntary case-management program that serves low-income families in North and East King County who are experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness. The Family Development program helps families achieve housing stability and long-term economic self-sufficiency through strength-based case management and client-centered goal development. Using target goal setting to remove barriers, families achieve their highest level of self-sufficiency and make lasting change.
Organization: Hopelink
Program: Financial Assistance Resiliency Program
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $37,450
Program Overview: Helps individuals living in poverty who are experiencing an unexpected financial shock (need for car repair, medical issue, loss of hours at work, etc.) that threatens their overall stability. Through flexible financial aid, in conjunction with short-term system navigation help, the program reduces barriers to income supports and improves financial stability.
Organization: Hopelink
Program: Housing
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $25,000
Program Overview: Hopelink has 19 units of Emergency Shelter, 51 units of Transitional Housing, and 35 units of Permanent Housing. Case managers, paired with the above-described units, use a strengths-based, client-centered case management model. Case managers work with the family to identify realistic goals to help the family overcome barriers and identify steps and strategies to achieve permanent housing. The end goal is to have the family achieve the highest level of self-sufficiency by making lasting change.
Organization: Imagine Housing
Program: Resident Services
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $210,200
Program Overview: Provides basic needs, case management, resource referrals, and community programming at affordable housing communities located in Kirkland. This program ensures residents with low incomes overcome barriers to stability through connecting them with resources that improves the overall quality of residents' lives.
Organization: KidVantage
Program: Meeting Basic Needs for Children
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $15,050
Program Overview: Provides critical basic needs which infants and children (0-12), near/in poverty or crisis, need for healthy development and safety. EBC is the only children’s basic needs resource broker in the service area. EBC fills a gap by collecting essential goods through community donations and by purchasing critical safety-regulated items, like car seats, and consumable goods, like diapers.
Organization: Kindering Center
Program: Families in Transition
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $24,387
Program Overview: Supports young children experiencing homelessness and their families with developmental health services, education, outreach, and connection to services in the community. FIT services help children make developmental gains and build protective factors against stress and trauma, while building supportive parenting skills.
Organization: King County Bar Association
Program: Neighborhood Legal Clinics
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $7,150
Program Overview: Free legal advice from volunteer attorneys through legal clinics.
Organization: Lake Washington Schools Foundation
Program: Pantry Packs
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $10,000
Program Overview: Pantry Packs program bridges the weekend hunger gap by providing discreet bags of nutritious, shelf-stable food to identified food-insecure students in the Lake Washington School District every Friday during the school year.
Organization: LifeWire
Program: Emergency Shelter
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $39,557
Program Overview: Confidential shelter for survivors of domestic violence who are fleeing a violent relationship. Emergency shelter is provided in 10 apartment units located in East King County. Survivors (and their children) in shelter are provided basic needs such as food, clothing, and transitional housing; supportive services; advocacy services, and housing location services.
Organization: LifeWire
Program: Housing Stability
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2024): $17,655
Program Overview: The Housing Stability Program (HSP) provides flexible, low barrier financial assistance for survivors of domestic violence. This can include rental assistance, basic needs, employment help, legal assistance, and more.
Organization: MAPS Muslim Community Resource Center
Program: Rental Assistance
BIPOC Organization: Yes
Amount Funded (2025): $35,000
Program Overview: Provides emergency rental assistance to refugees from Afghanistan and Ukraine who fall under the Low Income/Very Low Income categories.
Organization: MAPS Muslim Community Resource Center
Program: Food & Gas Card Distribution
BIPOC Organization: Yes
Amount Funded (2025): $10,700
Program Overview: Provides emergency assistance in the form of gift cards that can be used to purchase food or gas only. This ensures that no one in acute need of sustenance or transportation is left with no resources.
Organization: MAPS Muslim Community Resource Center
Program: Housing for Single Women
BIPOC Organization: Yes
Amount Funded (2025): $9,000
Program Overview: Provides socially and culturally appropriate transitional housing for single women. This vulnerable population has an increased need for personal safety and privacy, and the demand for transitional housing is great. This program provides housing units and case management.
Organization: Overlake Christian Church
Program: Emergency Financial Aid & Assistance
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $23,000
Program Overview: Emergency financial assistance for rent, mortgage, or utility bills, and funds for car repairs for those living in their vehicle.
Organization: Overlake Christian Church
Program: Safe Parking & Day Center
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $10,000
Program Overview: Emergency shelter and support through OCC's Safe Parking for men and couples who are living in their vehicles and Day Center services for anyone in need
Organization: Porchlight
Program: 24/7 Enhanced Shelter
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $110,000
Program Overview: Provides a safe and welcoming environment 24 hours a day every day of the year for 100+ men experiencing homelessness on the Eastside with the on-site resources needed for individuals to rebuild their lives and obtain stable income and housing. Services include shelter, meals, showers laundry, case management support, addiction and mental health, employment support and more.
Organization: Porchlight
Program: Housing
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $10,000
Program Overview: Provides 76 units of Permanent Housing for single men over 18 years old transitioning from homelessness to stable living. Each man is connected to our community of supports through case managers, house managers, agency partners and other PorchLight staff.
Organization: Porchlight
Program: Housing Navigation
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $2,675
Program Overview: Provides specialized case management and housing navigation services and move-in financial assistance to help men, women, and children access stable housing.
Organization: Porchlight
Program: Rotating Shelter
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $5,000
Program Overview: The Rotating Shelter (RS) is a men's overnight shelter operating from 6 pm - 8am for up to 24 men each night who are experiencing homelessness in East King County. The RS provides supportive services that include case management, addiction support, and healthy community support to help men experiencing homelessness navigate to stability.
Organization: Renewal Food Bank
Program: Grocery Style Food Bank
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $8,025
Program Overview: Grocery Style Food Bank open to all on the Eastside.
Organization: Sound Generations
Program: Meals on Wheels
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $12,634
Program Overview: Meals on Wheels (MOW) program is trusted by thousands of King County’s most vulnerable aging and disabled adults each year for their home delivered food needs. MOW delivers nutritious, satisfying meals directly to the homes of King County residents of all ages, who are unable to leave their homes unassisted, unable to prepare meals, and lack a social support system.
Organization: The Sophia Way
Program: Helen's Place
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $160,500
Program Overview: 24/7/365 emergency shelter and day center located in Kirkland. Women experiencing homelessness have access to showers, laundry, hot meals, sleeping and napping areas, as well as connection to a case manager and a mental health professional.
Organization: The Sophia Way
Program: Sophia's Place
BIPOC Organization: No
Amount Funded (2025): $13,097
Program Overview: Provides overnight shelter for up to six months, and case management services to help women experiencing homelessness achieve personal goals that lead to independent living; housing in subsidized apartments and community transitional housing.