FHO Impact Snapshot: FY2025
- Fund for Housing and Opportunity
- Oct 2
- 3 min read
Updated: Oct 3
We are excited to share the Fund for Housing and Opportunity’s FY25 Impact Snapshot. The FY25 Impact Snapshot reflects our ongoing efforts to align philanthropic resources in support of a more just and equitable housing system and captures the progress FHO grantee partners have made over the past year (July 1, 2024-June 30, 2025) across our three core grantmaking strategies—Policy, Advocacy, and Organizing; Narrative Change; and Elevating What Works—and FHO's strategic pillar of building field alignment.
Since 2017, FHO has approved 125 grants totaling over $28 million. FHO members have separately provided at least an additional $14.4 million in aligned funding to grantee partners. In FY25, FHO approved 27 new and/or renewal grants, totaling $4.9 million.
In a time of rising inequality, deepening political regression, and heightened threats to the rights of renters and people at risk of or experiencing homelessness, the Fund for Housing and Opportunity continues to mobilize collective philanthropic action to support organizations working to protect renters and solve homelessness. Our north star remains clear: everyone has a safe place to call home.
A note from FHO Executive Director Jeanne Fekade-Sellassie:
There’s no sugar coating it. We are in a regressive moment defined by deepening inequality, aggressive rollbacks of civil rights, and lawmakers who treat poverty as a crime while enacting policies that will make it far harder to move out of poverty and into a better life. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Johnson v. Grants Pass last year granted legal cover to cities that punish people simply for not having a home. Deep cuts to Medicaid and SNAP will make it harder for families to afford their basic necessities – putting already cost-burdened families at risk of eviction or foreclosure. National efforts to erase diversity, equity, and inclusion work are growing stronger. Even as attacks on immigrants, unhoused communities, and low-income renters become disturbingly routine, they remain profoundly alarming. These assaults on people's dignity and safety must continue to move our communities and organizations to act.
Despite these escalating threats—or perhaps because of them—we are also witnessing something powerful: an unprecedented level of alignment, coordination, and shared resolve across those who remain focused on a brighter vision for the long haul. This vision will guide our collective work to not hastily rebuild but to boldly replace the systems that were never designed for equitable outcomes in the first place. It is a vision of a liberated future where all renters have access to safe, stable homes they can afford in communities that support better health, economic mobility, and access to good jobs and schools, free from the barriers and harms of systemic racism.
At the Fund for Housing and Opportunity, we’ve seen firsthand how communities are meeting this moment—not with fear, but with deep collaboration, strategic resistance, and bold vision. Grassroots movements are organizing across geographies and identities to protect their neighbors, block harmful policies, and build new systems rooted in dignity and equity. FHO’s grantee partners are advancing state and local wins that expand tenant protections, grow social housing, and challenge the criminalization of homelessness. And they’re doing it while elevating the leadership of people most affected by housing injustice, including Black, Indigenous, immigrant, and low-income communities.
This year, we continued to play our role as connector, amplifier, and learner, deepening relationships with funders and organizers, aligning strategy across institutions, and growing our internal capacity to meet the urgency of this time. We launched the Meet the Moment fund to support rapid-response work that defends immigrant tenants and challenges federal overreach. We convened grantee partners and funders to share insights and strengthen bonds; we saw our members increase their aligned giving to frontline groups leading the way.
Housing is not just a policy issue. It is the foundation from which all other outcomes emerge: health, education, economic security, and the basic right to belong. In this challenging political landscape, FHO remains committed to resourcing the work that builds power, shifts narrative, and reimagines what is possible.
We are in this for the long haul. And we are not alone. Together, we will not just survive this moment. We will emerge from it stronger and with the power and plan to build the more equitable future America deserves.
