In July 2024, St. David’s Foundation launched the Housing + Health: Funding Opportunity for Planning and Predevelopment, focused on increasing Central Texas’ capacity to provide safe, healthy, and affordable housing options for low-to-moderate income households in Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, and Williamson counties. This open call was centered on the Foundation’s commitment to advancing affordable housing as a platform for health, particularly when designed to include community input and leverage local assets of both place and people.

A total of 18 grants totaling $8.4M were awarded to organizations. We invite you to explore this page and learn more about the grant recipients.

Funding Opportunity Overview

The Central Texas region is challenged to provide sufficient affordable housing, compromising the health and wellbeing of individuals, families, and their communities. St. David’s Foundation believes that solid and potentially transformative ideas exist within our region that can help solve our housing affordability crisis. Providing access to planning and/or predevelopment funds was intended to surface and vet these ideas to increase regional affordable housing capacity in the communities with the greatest health needs in Central Texas.

The Housing + Health funding opportunity call sought to support organizations or collaboratives working towards a goal of increasing access to affordable housing for low-to-moderate income households in Central Texas by exploring system-level improvements, testing new approaches, or launching projects with the potential to produce new or preserve existing affordable housing.

The 18 grants awarded as part of this open call will increase affordable housing capacity in all parts of the five-county region served by the Foundation, and align with the Foundation’s goal to advance safe, healthy, and affordable housing as a platform for health and stable income creation.

Grant recipients received an unrestricted, one-year grant.

View an informational webinar recording for Housing + Health here.

Eligibility Criteria

• Operate in one or more of the following Central Texas counties: Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis, or Williamson.
• Fall into one of the following classifications:
  • A tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
  • A public entity (e.g., municipality, health department, university, school).
  • Using a fiscal sponsor who is a tax-exempt organization under 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.

• Statewide and national organizations not headquartered in Central Texas must be able to demonstrate meaningful partnerships with local organizations and communities to have an impact in our five-county region
• Evidence of working to increase access to a5ordable housing for low-to-moderate income households in Central Texas

Grant Recipients

18 grants totaling $8.4M in funding were awarded as part of the Housing + Health funding opportunity

• Austin Affordable Housing Corporation*
• Austin Habitat for Humanity, Inc. (Lockhart)*
• Austin Habitat for Humanity, Inc. (Whisper Valley)*
• Austin Housing Finance Corporation*
• Bastrop County*
• Blackland Community Development Corporation*
• Caldwell County Community Services Foundation
• Equidad ATX*
• Foundation Communities*
• Greater Austin YMCA*
• Greater Taylor Foundation*
• Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation (Escuela Nueva Campus)*
• Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation (Pleasant Hill)*
• LifeWorks
• Outsiders Anonymous*
• ROC USA LLC 
• Saint Louise House
• The SAFE Alliance