Housing Grants

The Results Foundation Housing Grants support organizations working to increase the supply of quality, affordable homes in our communities as well as programs helping individuals and families on a pathway to sustainable home ownership. With a focus on initiatives that value access and equity, we strive to improve lives and strengthen neighborhoods.

Whether it’s creating new affordable housing, maintaining secure housing, or providing financial education to reach the goal of homeownership, these grants aim to empower organizations working on the frontlines of housing challenges in our communities.

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FOR THIS YEAR’S 2025 HOUSING GRANTS

Results Foundation is awarding three $20,000 grants and three $5,000 grants to organizations driving real change in housing. After receiving an incredible number of high-quality nominations, we’re proud to introduce the 10 incredible finalists—and now it’s your turn to vote for the ones you believe should receive this important funding.

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Meet the Finalists

Aeon

Mission: With a vision that every person has a home, Aeon's mission is to create and sustain quality affordable homes that strengthen lives and communities.

Grant Use: With the support of the Results Foundation, Aeon aims to lay the foundation of thriving communities by fostering stable residents and sustainable properties through the following three-pronged approach:

Stable People. Intervening early to address short-term barriers to on-time rent payments that threaten residents’ housing stability and the property performance.

Strong Performance. Improving property livability conditions from the lens of residents to ensure homes are safe, attractive to new residents, and promote retention of existing residents to deliver strong occupancy.

Sustainable Properties. Fostering resident leadership and shared investment of Aeon and residents, working together to steward and sustain safe, quality affordable homes for present and future generations.

Emma Norton Services

Mission: To provide transformational housing and support for women and families overcoming homelessness and trauma.

Grant Use: A grant will further Emma Norton’s mission by allowing us to continue to provide our vital services for our community. With many longstanding sources of housing support funding up in the air, especially at the federal level, our work is more critical than ever. In 2025, we expect to serve approximately 300-350 individuals, agency-wide, including approximately 70 individuals and small families at Restoring Waters, 100 family members (13-15 families) at Emma's Place, 120 individuals in scattered-site housing (50 singles and 12 families), and additional individuals in housing navigation. We will also continue to offer Living Room on-site, trauma-informed mental health drop-in services provided by peer specialists trained in crisis intervention. Services are available to residents as well as to individuals in the nearby community.

We also plan to continue to strengthen our services by:
• Growing our supportive community programming at Restoring Waters, such as art, cooking, and gardening programs implemented with community partners like U of MN and Art to Change the World.
• Expanding the number of peer specialists onsite at the Living Room to serve the growing number of community members seeking services.
• Investing in our youth services at Emma’s Place, which provides tailored social emotional support for kids in our housing.

Housing in Action

Mission: To lead the fight for housing justice so that all people have a safe, stable, and dignified place to live.

Grant Use: Grant funds will be used to grow our Homeownership Pathways to connect first-time, first-generation BIPOC families with opportunities that illuminate the path to making their homeownership dreams a reality.

Homeownership Pathways increases stable housing and homeownership opportunities for those most impacted by housing discrimination. Homeownership Pathways includes our downpayment assistance fund and homeownership education programs.

Housing in Action distributes $20,000 grants to first-time BIPOC homebuyers in North Minneapolis through our Homeownership Access Fund. Our goal is to grow the Homeownership Access Fund by $200,000 to distribute ten down payment assistance grants to first-time BIPOC homeowners in North Minneapolis.

Our Homeownership Pathways Manager, a HUD-certified counselor, provides credit score coaching, homeownership classes, down-payment assistance guidance, and post-purchase support to help families achieve lasting stability and wealth-building through homeownership. The goals for our Homeownership Pathways Program include providing HUD-certified education and counseling to 30 people through group education opportunities and 20 HIA rental residents through one-on-one counseling.

Jeremiah Program

Mission: To disrupt the cycle of poverty for single mothers and their children two generations at a time.

Grant Use: All of our 40 onsite apartment units are subsidized. Residents pay 30% of their income towards rent, allowing them to afford to prioritize their education. We have two funding streams that help us cover the subsidized portion of the rent. We are fortunate to receive 20 Project Based Vouchers from Olmsted County to help cover the subsidization of half of our units. In addition, we receive $38,800 per year in Tax Increment Financing (TIF). JP fundraises to cover the gap remaining between these funding sources and the total cost of providing this subsidized housing for our families. We would use funding from this grant to help cover the gap.

Life House, Inc.

Mission: Our mission is to reconnect youth to their dreams.

Grant Use: Funds would allow Life House, a youth-focused agency in Northeastern Minnesota, to increase capacity within its Housing Program. The program aims to reduce systemic barriers to long-term, stable housing by providing young people with supportive housing opportunities, attending to their socio-emotional wellbeing, and exploring pathways for economic self-sufficiency.

Life House’s Housing Program serves as the region’s primary coordinated entry point for unstably housed youth (ages 14-24) to access the priority waiting list for supportive housing. Additionally, Life House operates a total of 50 units of housing with comprehensive case management throughout the Duluth community. The Housing Program coordinates with other in-house services (such as the Mental Health and Wellness Program and Futures [Education and Employment] Program) to further youths' self-identified goals. All Life House services are strength-based, trauma-conscious, and free of charge.

In 2025, we expect to serve approximately 325 youth in the Housing Program through housing access services, assistance in housing retention, and/or case managed housing opportunities.

Mni Sota Fund

Mission: To promote homeownership, entrepreneurship, and financial wellness throughout Indigenous communities in Minnesota.

Grant Use: With a grant, Mni Sota Fund can turn its proven home‑buyer education model into a statewide lifeline. Our two HUD‑certified counselors already guide about fifty Native families a year from curiosity to keys in hand. New resources would let them multiply that reach without adding staff: travel stipends, classroom technology, and partner host sites would carry our workshops to rural and reservation communities that have never had regular access to homeownership coaching.

Meanwhile, we will translate our culturally rooted curriculum into a short‑form online learning hub—bite‑sized videos, worksheets, and language‑appropriate modules accessible on any device, any hour. Clients can begin lessons immediately, reinforce concepts between sessions, and share materials with relatives, weaving financial knowledge through entire households.

By pairing mobile classrooms with on‑demand digital learning and continuing our deep ties to Minnesota’s down‑payment‑assistance programs, we can guide at least 100 Native households a year toward first‑time homeownership, doubling our impact and planting intergenerational wealth across the state.

Mom’s Haven of Hope

Mission: To provide single moms with a supportive home and community where they can develop life skills, complete their education, grow spiritually and achieve sustainability.

Grant Use: This grant would directly support the operational and programmatic needs of our transitional home, ensuring that moms have access to a secure, fully equipped living space. Housing is foundational to everything we do—it provides the stability from which moms can pursue education, employment, parenting skills, and wellness.

Funding will allow us to cover essential services, including staffing, healthy meals, transportation, life skills programming, and access to medical care. These elements work together to meet the full spectrum of a mother's needs—physical, emotional, and developmental. Our hands-on, relationship-driven model ensures each mom is supported as she works toward self-sufficiency.

While our current home serves four moms at a time, the demand is far greater. With this funding, we can also begin planning for expanded housing options, such as apartment-style units, to serve more families in need.

My Neighbor to Love Coalition

Mission: To solve homelessness in the Lakes Area by providing affordable housing, addressing root causes, and creating a supportive community.

Grant Use: MNTLC is currently building Phase 2 of our Creekside Community development - a multi-family 12-plex. Funding is needed to help pay for final construction costs and required landscaping. To keep our rental unit costs as low as possible, we need to keep the amount we borrow to pay for construction, as low as possible.

We are at the stage of development where new residents have recently moved into their homes. For most of them, Creekside Community is their only option. Some have been street homeless for many years. One mother has worked hard to get her child back and the only step left was she had to secure housing. If not for MNTLC giving her a chance after a previous eviction, she was at risk for losing her child. There are so many stories that need to be told. A grant from the Results Foundation will help make it possible for us to continue our mission, get people into housing and onto a stable path, and give hope.

Project for Pride in Living (PPL)

Mission: To build the hope, assets, and self-reliance of individuals and families who have lower incomes by providing transformative housing and career readiness services.

Grant Use: These funds will support key services including financial coaching, homebuyer education, down payment assistance, and post-purchase support. Participants work one-on-one with financial coaches to assess their budget, review credit, and prepare for long-term financial stability. Our HUD-certified staff guide participants through income ratios, mortgage readiness, and lending options.

Home Ready measures progress based on the number of participants, progress on their short- and long-term homeownership goals, and the number of people who purchase a home. In 2024, nearly 600 people in the Twin Cities area engaged with Home Ready. Among participants, 46% have household incomes below 200% of federal poverty ($30,120 for an individual, $62,400 for a family of four) and 85% are Black, Indigenous, or people of color (BIPOC). Recognizing the impact of racial inequities on participants, staff, and community, we hold racial equity as an essential pillar of our efficacy to address root causes of economic instability.

2025 Home Ready goals include:
- 325 people engage in homeownership workshops.
- 225 participants enroll in homeownership coaching.
- 150 households purchase homes.
- 100 participants secure down payment assistance.

Home Ready’s dedicated Data Specialist tracks participant goals, progress, demographics, income level, geography, and more in PPL's Apricot database.

Women’s Advocates

Mission: Women’s Advocates walks with victim-survivors and our community to break the cycle of domestic violence. Using the tools of radical hospitality, advocacy and collective action, we work toward a community free from violence, where all are safe and can live productive and healthy lives.

Grant Use: Women’s Advocates recognizes that to truly break the cycle of DV, we must provide safe emergency shelter accommodation for victim-survivors and their children while also eliminating the economic disparities and housing instability that force victim-survivors to remain with or return to their abuser.

We accomplish this directly through our two emergency shelter programs (the main shelter in St. Paul and the Alternative Shelter Program’s scattered-site shelter apartment units) and our Housing Stability program, which provides exiting shelter residents with rapid re-housing services through established relationships with local landlords and property managers.

Our robust housing navigation and legal advocacy support helps survivors identify and resolve housing barriers, establish mutually beneficial rental agreements, and increase the likelihood that they will maintain long-term housing stability following a shelter stay.

The Housing Stability program provides up to five years of rental assistance and ongoing advocacy and emotional support as survivors work to establish their own households free from violence.

Through this combination of emergency shelter and long-term housing advocacy, Women’s Advocates regularly keeps an average of 200 shelter residents and 80 victim-survivor families out of homelessness every year.

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