What we’re funding currently and how to apply.
New Statewide Funding Opportunity through WYFF: Proposals due December 8, 2025
Requests for Proposals and Application Materials
FAQ and Q&A Sessions
- A virtual Q&A Session will be held on Thursday, November 13, 2025, from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST. Register here.
- The session recording and FAQ document will be posted on this webpage on Tuesday, November 18, 2025.
Overview
Building Changes is pleased to announce the 2025 Washington Youth & Families Fund Request for Proposals for projects serving families across Washington state. Approximately $250,000-$500,000 in total funding will be awarded to organizations advancing equitable, healing-centered approaches to prevent and address family homelessness. Eligible applicants include nonprofit community or neighborhood-based organizations, regional and statewide nonprofit housing assistance organizations, federally recognized Indian Tribes, local housing authorities, and public development authorities. Building Changes will provide funding, technical assistance, and capacity building support for up to three years per project.
Culturally Specific Organizations or smaller organizations led and staffed by persons of color that primarily serve communities of color (By-For Organizations) are encouraged to apply, even if not currently delivering homeless and housing services. If selected as a grantee, Building Changes will provide training and technical assistance.
Projects Serving Families
This RFP will award grants to organizations supporting families—particularly Black, Indigenous, Pacific Islander, Asian, immigrant, refugee, and LGBTQIA2S+ households—who are at risk of or currently experiencing homelessness. The goal is to strengthen family housing stability through approaches that connect flexible housing supports, healing-centered engagement, and access to culturally grounded services.
Building Changes seeks projects that:
- Use flexible funds to help families secure and sustain stable housing through rent, deposits, or creative supports that remove barriers such as transportation, childcare, or documentation.
- Integrate healing and wellness services that help families recover from trauma, restore cultural connection, and rebuild belonging and stability.
- Expand food access and family nourishment by increasing families’ access to healthy, culturally relevant food as a foundation for housing stability and wellbeing.
This funding opportunity recognizes that preventing homelessness requires addressing both the immediate crisis and the deeper impacts of trauma, exclusion, and disconnection. Through the Washington Youth & Families Fund, Building Changes aims to test and expand innovative, culturally responsive strategies that support families’ housing stability, healing, and long-term wellbeing.
Questions?
Please direct questions to WYFF@BuildingChanges.org.
Building Changes makes funding available in Washington State to test and learn from promising practices. We are able to do this through state allocations made to the Washington Youth & Families Fund (WYFF) and private investments.
