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 $15 Million to help meet the needs for safe, stable and affordable housing throughout Idaho.

Our Mission

We strengthen communities across Idaho by helping people build a strong foundation for their lives through stable, safe, 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 Idaho Housing’s Housing Information Referral Center (HIRC), or 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:

Providing Shelter and Encouraging Self-Sufficiency

Emergency Shelter and Transitional Housing Program

Homeless shelters across Idaho provide crucial safety and life-sustaining services to our most needy 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.

Self-Sufficiency and Asset Building Program

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.

Homelessness Prevention Program

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.

Housing for Homeless Idaho Veterans

Local agencies, corporations, foundations, and the general community have the opportunity to take an active role in helping house those that 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 an 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 Boise/Ada County

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.
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If you are interested in learning more about this project, and how you or your organization can help, please email: DeannaW@ihfa.org.

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

Avenues for Hope

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

Campaign Images/Downloads

Press Releases

News

Videos

2023: The Impact of Avenues for Hope across Idaho
2022 Avenues for Hope: Restoring hope for a Boise family
2019 Avenues for Hope
2018 Avenues for Hope

Investing in Workforce Housing

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.

Facilitating Tax-Advantaged Land Donations

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.

Form 990

2022 Form 990 Public Disclosure
2021 Form 990 Public Disclosure
2020 Form 990 Public Disclosure
2019 Form 990 Public Disclosure
2018 Form 990 Public Disclosure
2017 Form 990 Public Disclosure
2016 Form 990 Public Disclosure

Keep up-to-date on the Foundation’s programs and events by signing up for our emails or by visiting our Facebook and Twitter pages.

Community Impact

Southeastern Idaho Community Action Agency Inc. – Pocatello, Idaho
Darrin diligently volunteers to set up Pocatello’s Field of Heroes with over 6,000 crosses representing the soldiers who have given their lives since 9/11. He came to Southeastern Idaho Community Action Agency Inc. (SEICAA) as a homeless and hungry veteran. SEICAA helped him to rebuild his life, secure stable housing, and become self-sufficient, thanks to customized case management and support to overcome mental and physical barriers. To show his gratitude, Darrin volunteers to help with veteran-related activities through SEICAA, and enjoys helping fellow veterans who face similar challenges.
The Good Samaritan Home – Boise, Idaho
Residents of The Good Samaritan Home enjoy meals together and a strong sense of community thanks to Avenues For Hope Housing Challenge proceeds and generous support from the community. For 73 years they have been providing hope, stability, and a place to call home for low-income seniors, veterans, and adults with disabilities. With their 45 private rooms always full, they show they care on a daily basis with three meals per day and the comforts of home for those less-fortunate.
LCCI/Mahoney Family Safety Center – Salmon, Idaho
The community of Salmon, Idaho is fortunate to have the Mahoney Family Safety Center to provide emergency shelter, food, transportation, and other urgent needs to the victims of domestic violence. One resident, who was recently moved to a safe living situation from the Center after receiving a variety of essential services, can’t wait to pay it forward. “I can hardly wait to be in the position so that I can repay the kindness that has been bestowed upon me and my daughter,” she said.
Salvation Army Community Family Shelter – Nampa, Idaho
The Salvation Army Nampa’s Community Family Shelter is the only intact family shelter in Canyon County that keeps homeless families together and houses single women. They offer emergency shelter for up to 90 days and transitional housing for up to 24 months, recognizing the dignity and value of all people, and helping move families from homelessness to financial independence and stability. A single mom with three children was recently able to finish her GED, get a sustainable full-time job and move her family into an apartment of their own after seven months in the transitional housing program. Professional case management helped her set goals, decrease debt, increase income, and gain employment while her children seamlessly attended school.
Blaine County Housing Authority
Blaine County is a small, desirable mountain community with a high quality of life that comes with an increased cost of living. The people who provide important services in the Sun Valley area struggle to find affordable housing. The Blaine County Housing Authority operates the iconic Lift Tower Lodge motel to benefit the community, with 14 rooms providing temporary housing for 78 individuals to date, in addition to the rooms they have donated to other nonprofits in the community. A travelling nurse needed a place to stay to enable her to work in Ketchum each week for 3 days. With high rental rates and lengthy contract requirements, it was a struggle to find anything other than hotels, which were too expensive. She reached out to BCHA and qualified to stay at the Lift Tower Lodge. This economical option enables her to provide care at the local hospital, benefitting the community in the long run
The Jesse Tree of Idaho – Boise, Idaho
The Jesse Tree of Idaho has provided a safety net for more than 6,650 people at risk of becoming homeless in Ada County since 2001. Emma, a working mother of two, was diagnosed with a terminal illness and her estranged husband quit his job leaving her without health insurance. After falling behind on rent, she was referred to The Jesse Tree’s Emergency Rent and Mercy Assistance (ERMA) program which provided case management along with rent for a month to stabilize her housing. Her social worker also helped connect Emma with Health and Welfare resources and vouchers to a thrift store to get clothes for her and her children, which helped alleviate expenses and worry in other areas of her life.
Advocates Against Family Violence – Caldwell, ID

Since 2010, Advocates Against Family Violence in Caldwell has purchased 14 low-income rental units, constructed a 48-unit apartment complex, and will be adding 24 more housing units by 2018. Since creating these housing options, there are fewer people living in the shelter and survivors are becoming more self-sufficient at a quicker pace. They help clients overcome seemingly insurmountable trauma by providing a path to survivorship, healing, and hope for victims who enter the shelter battered and bruised. Thanks to AAFV for responding to the needs for permanent housing for the women and children in their domestic violence programs.
Aid for Friends – Pocatello, Idaho
Aid for Friends – Pocatello, Idaho Various programs administered by Aid For Friends have been enhanced by funding from the Home Partnership Foundation. Hundreds of low income households have been sheltered, offered social services and assisted in achieving permanent housing. Managing programs that assist the homeless and families struggling to survive is challenging without charitable contributions. One client, Rachel, was working at a local grocery store but was unable to afford housing after dealing with depression, addiction, and jail time. She wore out her welcome staying with family members and ended up at the Aid For Friends Emergency Shelter. She entered the Transitional Housing Program a few months later and successfully participated in life skills classes offered. She was recently reunited with her daughter that she had lost custody of three years prior.