Overview
- The 2025 cohort spans 20 states, Washington, D.C., and Guam.
- Grants are one-time awards that recipients can use with flexibility over roughly five years to deepen local efforts.
- Named recipients include Housing Families in Massachusetts ($5 million), United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County ($5 million), Care Resource in South Florida ($5 million), St. Vincent de Paul Georgia ($5 million), and Friendship Place in the D.C. region ($2.5 million).
- Funding will expand emergency housing, eviction-prevention legal services, wraparound support, rapid-employment programs, and pathways to permanent housing, with some communities aiming for functional zero for family homelessness.
- Since 2018, the fund has issued 280 grants totaling more than $850 million, and Lauren Sánchez Bezos signaled continued annual grantmaking under the broader commitment.