Through a special funding round of the Texas Foundations Fund, TSAHC awarded $300,000 in grant funding to 15 organizations providing critical home repairs in response to Winter Storm Uri.
Below is a full list of grantees. Click on the + sign to learn more about each organization and how they will utilize their grant.
The mission of Avenue is to build affordable homes and strengthen communities. Avenue develops safe, quality housing accessible to low and moderate-income families and launched its home repair program “Rebuilding Northside Together” in 2014 to help very low-income homeowners in the Northside neighborhood of Houston rehabilitate their homes. Avenue will utilize its grant to provide repairs to households referred by the Greater Houston Community Foundation.
Award: $15,000
County Served: Harris
Established in 1996, CDC of Freedmen’s Town has worked to build and restore affordable housing in the historical Freedmen’s Town and surrounding area of Houston. The organization will work in partnership with the Freedmen’s Town Association and Genesis Affordable Housing to repair 3-4 homes in their service area.
Award: $15,000
County Served: Harris
EHCEC’s mission is to improve the quality of life through innovative, sustainable programs and services that empower men, women, and youth to achieve their full potential. The organization has identified 670 household in need of assistance after Winter Storm Uri, and they intend on assisting 100 of them. This grant will allow them to repair 4-5 homes.
Award: $15,000
County Served: Harris
Fort Hood Habitat has been serving Bell, Coryell, and Lampasas counties for 26 years. Their repair programs improve the homeowners’ quality of life by making their homes healthy, safe, and accessible. They will use their grant to provide repairs to up to five households on their waiting list.
Award: $15,000
Counties Served: Bell, Coryell, and Lampasas
Formed in the aftermath of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, FCDR aims to rebuild the uninsured homes of low-income families who have experienced disaster. On top of making safety repairs towards the decency of a home, FCDR also provides accessibility repairs. Their grant will support disaster-related repairs for up to 10 households.
Award: $30,000
Counties Served: Brazoria, Fort Bend, and Galveston
Galilee CDC is a nonprofit organization established in 2000 with the purpose of creating decent, affordable housing for low and moderate-income families in the Concho Valley. Galilee CDC intends to use this grant to serve up to 10 households on their waiting list in the Concho Valley region.
Award: $15,000
Counties Served: Coke, Concho, Irion, Kimble, Runnels, Schleicher, Sterling, and Tom Green
Corpus Christi Habitat builds homes, communities, and hope and also helps communities clean up and rebuild after natural disasters. This Habitat affiliate will use this grant to serve up to 15 households on their waiting list.
Award: $30,000
Counties Served: Nueces and San Patricio
Habitat for Humanity of Smith County has been operating since 1989 with the goal of bringing their community together by building homes and hope. The Habitat affiliate provides home repairs and modifications for seniors, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and low-income families through its ReHabitat program. The anticipate assisting 12 homes with the grant.
Award: $15,000
Counties Served: Anderson, Cherokee, Henderson, Rains, Rusk, Smith, Van Zandt, and Wood
Established in 1999, Habitat for Humanity Williamson County has been working to realize their mission of creating and sustaining homeownership in their community. HFHWC intends to use their grant to assist two households in rural Williamson County, including one with significant storm-related damage (mold mediation, plumbing, electrical, drywall, and removal and replacing of all flooring).
Award: $15,000
County Served: Williamson
Operating for almost 30 years, Love Network is a cooperative effort between churches, community agencies, and volunteers to provide effective help for the disadvantaged in Baytown, Highlands, and West Chambers County. They will use their grant to perform home repairs for the three homes on their waiting list and potentially more from referral agencies.
Award: $15,000
Counties Served: Chambers and Harris
MOWCTX seeks to nourish and enrich the lives of the homebound and other people in need through programs that promote dignity and independent living. The organization runs 12 programs and counts on 8,000 volunteers to provide a range of services to low-income households across Central Texas. TSAHC staff anticipates MOWCTX will be able to assist 10 of the 15 households on their waiting list with this grant.
Award: $30,000
Counties Served: Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Hays, Lee, Travis, and Williamson
Founded in 2003, SEWA International is a faith-based, humanitarian, nonprofit that specializes in disaster relief and rehabilitation and serves humanity regardless of race, color, religion, gender, or nationality. The organization has a waiting list of 12 households with an anticipated cost of $145,000 in repairs. They will apply this grant towards that total amount of demonstrated need.
Award: $15,000
Counties Served: Brazoria, Fort Bend, and Harris
Zack Rosenburg and Liz McCartney founded SBP as a volunteer-led organization in March 2006 in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, after witnessing the critical need for home rebuilding organizations following Hurricane Katrina. Since its founding, SBP has rebuilt homes for more than 2,200 families across 14 communities. This grant combined with other funding sources will help the organization provide repairs to the 171 households on their Winter Storm Uri waiting list.
Award: $30,000
Counties Served: Brazoria, Fort Bend, Harris, and Montgomery
Established in 1992 in Houston’s East End, Tejano Center serves an agent for change empowering neighborhood residents. The Center’s goal is to improve lives and create a sustained network of support and opportunity within the community. The organization has more than 50 households on their waiting list and anticipates serving 3-6 of them with this grant.
Award: $15,000
Counties Served: Brazoria, Fort Bend, and Harris
Victoria County LTRG provides case management, spiritual, emotional, physical, and financial resources to those affected by disasters, regardless of race, creed, color, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or religious preference. The high-capacity organization mobilized in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey and has scaled up its operation to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and now Winter Storm Uri. The organization will serve as many households as possible on its extensive waiting list that grows daily due to referrals from its expansive network of partner organizations.
Award: $30,000
Counties Served: Calhoun, DeWitt, Goliad, Gonzales, Matagorda, Victoria, and Yoakum
