
Foundation
Our Mission
The Home Partnership Foundation is an independent 501(c)(3) organization brought to you by Idaho Housing and Finance Association. The Foundation was created in 2005 and has invested nearly $16 Million to help meet the needs for safe, stable, and affordable housing throughout Idaho.
We strengthen communities across Idaho by helping people build a strong foundation for their lives through safe, stable, and affordable housing. We encourage tax-deductible charitable gifts from private citizens, local governments, foundations, and employers to:
- Support shelters and shelter services for the homeless and disadvantaged;
- Help avoid eviction actions to stabilize households and prevent homelessness;
- Encourage asset-building and education to achieve economic independence;
- Build equity-sharing funds to make workforce housing attainable; and
- Facilitate tax-advantaged land donations for affordable housing purposes.
Programs
The Home Partnership Foundation, is a non-profit organization helping communities meet their most pressing housing needs. Employers, private citizens, developers, local governments, and others are encouraged to make charitable donations to help sustain and grow these efforts. Gifts can take multiple forms and can be directed to help meet a variety of philanthropic goals. The Home Partnership Foundation does not provide funding or services directly to individuals. Please refer to the Housing Assistance Guide to identify community-based providers.
The Foundation relies on many partners to make a measurable difference in the lives of Idahoans in need of housing services and resources. Learn more about our work and how specific programs help address a variety of these needs throughout Idaho:
Emergency Shelter and Transitional Housing Program
Homeless shelters across Idaho provide crucial safety and life-sustaining services for families and individuals. Foundation grants are combined with limited federal resources to support Idaho homeless shelter operations and capital needs in association with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care local grantee-based programs.
Individuals and families are becoming financially independent with the help of the Foundation through the use of a matched savings account to help them build assets and enter the financial mainstream. Program participants are involved in case management and a minimum of ten hours of financial training. The program matches an individual’s savings, up to $2,000, dollar-for-dollar towards the down payment on a home.
Idahoans who currently reside in rented homes may face eviction actions due to temporary economic, employment, or health crises, threatening the security and stability of their families. The Foundation matches private donations up to a maximum annual amount to provide financial counseling and budgeting skills specifically designed to prevent and avoid eviction actions.
Local agencies, corporations, foundations, and the general community have the opportunity to take an active role in helping house those who have bravely served this country. To make a project like this work, we must weave together resources to ensure the development is viable. The estimated cost for a new Veteran’s Permanent Supportive Housing development is approximately $6 million. Approximately $400,000 in community donations are needed to move this project forward.
While the location is yet to be determined, the development will require approximately one acre of land near the V.A. Medical Center in Boise and/or on a bus line. The new facility is proposed to have 25 units that will be fully furnished with a kitchenette and full bathroom. The site will include amenities such as laundry facilities, shared community meeting space with full kitchen, private meeting spaces for service providers to meet with tenants, recreational space to promote active/healthy living, computer lab, external courtyard, a live-in manager, and a 24-hour surveillance system with controlled entry.
Donations to support this project can be made online: http://bit.ly/HouseIDVets.
Gifts (up to $50,000 total) will be matched by Together Treasure Valley.
Click here for more information: Veterans Permanent Supportive Housing
Housing First is the most effective approach to ending homelessness. It centers on quickly moving people experiencing homelessness into independent and permanent housing and then providing intensive supports and services that address each person’s unique needs. The proposed Housing First projects in Boise/Ada County are:
Housing First Development
The Idaho Housing and Finance Association (IHFA) and the City of Boise have teamed up through a joint request for proposal (RFP) released on February 9, 2016. The project was awarded to create New Path Community Housing which began construction in the Fall of 2017. For more information please visit: http://www.newpathboise.org. This project is generously supported by Idaho Housing and Finance Association, City of Boise, Ada County, Boise City/Ada County Housing Authority, Saint Alphonsus Health System, St. Luke’s Health System, United Way of Treasure Valley, Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation, and Magellan Health.
How to Help
Community foundations, corporations and individuals who are interested in supporting Housing First in Boise City/Ada County can donate online.
Learn More About Housing First
- Housing and Homelessness Roundtable Members Partner to Create Two ‘Housing First’ Projects
- Cost of Chronic Homelessness Overview
Prepared by: Vanessa Fry, Boise State Public Policy Research Center: vanessafry@boisestate.edu
The Avenue for Hope Housing Challenge is a unique, online fundraising campaign created by the Home Partnership Foundation in 2011. The annual fundraising campaign has provided $12.2 million for 116 housing nonprofits and school districts throughout Idaho in the past twelve years.
Below are details about the Avenues for Hope Housing Challenge. If there is anything else you need please send a message to afh@ihfa.org.
Campaign Overview
Nonprofit Resources
Press Releases
- Dec. 12, 2023 – Avenues for Hope provides a boost to housing nonprofits in Southeast Idaho
- Dec. 12, 2023 – Avenues for Hope provides a boost to housing nonprofits in North Idaho
- Dec. 12, 2023 – Avenues for Hope provides a boost to housing nonprofits in Southwest Idaho
News
- Jan 11, 2023 – Idaho housing nonprofits get a $2.7 million boost
- Jan 5, 2022 – Avenues for Hope raises more than $2.5 million for Idaho nonprofits
Videos
Home Equity Partnership Fund
These funds are public and/or private partnerships established at a local level to facilitate investment in workforce housing. The funds provide equity to qualified homebuyers, allowing a buyer to purchase a home in a high cost location. Typically targeted at households earning between 80% and 140% of area median income, the beneficiaries are local teachers, fire fighters, police officers, and other local community workers. Public and private donations are recycled to a new buyer each time a home is sold, along with a share of home appreciation, creating a long-term endowment to support a community’s workforce housing needs.
Charitable Land Donation
The Foundation serves as a steward for charitable land donations. Such donations may be made with the intent that donated land will either be liquidated for targeted housing purposes or used directly in the development of affordable housing.
Keep up-to-date on the Foundation’s programs and events by visiting our Facebook and Instagram pages.
How To Contribute
As our partner in giving, your tax-deductible gift to the foundation ensures that your contributions remain in Idaho and work continually to improve the communities and programs statewide that you care about most.
1. To donate online, please use the button below to make a convenient and secure online contribution via credit card or check to support the work of the Foundation.
2. Mail in a gift today:
Home Partnership Foundation
P.O. Box 7899 Boise, ID 83707-1899
3. For more information, or to hold a confidential discussion, please contact the Foundation at 208-331-4756 or by email: hpf@ihfa.org.
4. Donate Through an Online Partner/Promotion


Your gift will be directed to the Foundation program of your choice below:
- Unrestricted Donations (funds will be directed by the foundation board)
- Emergency Shelter and Transitional Housing Program
- Self-Sufficiency and Asset Building Program
- Homelessness Prevention Program
- Home Equity Partnership Fund
- Charitable Land Donation
- Directed Gift (to support a specific Idaho shelter or housing organization)
- Housing First – Boise Programs
The Home Partnership Foundation does not provide funding or services directly to those in need. Please refer to the Housing Assistance Guide to identify community-based providers.
Community Impact
Videos
Sojourners’ Alliance
Windy Court
Aid For Friends
The Home Partnership Foundation is a tax-exempt 501 (c) (3) charitable organization. Donations are tax deductible consistent with IRC Section 170, our tax-exempt/EIN number is 75-3162969. All donations will receive a confirmation receipt for tax purposes.