Foundations & Funds

Arizona

Arizona Association of REALTORS®

Arizona Realtors® Housing Needs Foundation
The Arizona Housing Needs Foundation has been very successful. They raise money to be used to further housing opportunity efforts throughout the state. Money raised by local associations is distributed back to their area. State monies are used to fund state association activities such as their successful Employee Assistance Program.

Disaster Assistance Foundation
The Arizona Association of REALTORS® (AAR) identified a need to establish a fund to collect and distribute tax deductible donations from members and the general public to be used to assist those who have suffered from a personal or natural disaster.

Arkansas

Arkansas REALTORS® Association

Arkansas REALTOR® Foundation
The Arkansas REALTORS® Association has created a housing opportunity foundation. The foundation funds are distributed to local non-profits and toward scholarships for real estate students.

California

California Association of REALTORS®

Housing Affordability Fund (H.A.F.)
The Fund receives donations from members, non-members, and other institutions that are committed to addressing the housing problem in California. It distributes these resources through Local Associations who have submitted funding requests for local programs that address housing affordability and housing supply directly. In order to have the maximum impact, it seeks to leverage its funds with Local Associations and their housing partners.

Silicon Valley Realtors®

Silicon Valley Realtors® (SILVAR) Charitable Foundation
The Silicon Valley REALTORS® Charitable Foundation is a trust which makes grants available to organizations from donations by its REALTOR® and Affiliate members and friends. We are committed to the welfare and prosperity of the communities where we live and work. Through our charitable contributions and member involvement, we strive to help create more productive and enriched communities.

Santa Cruz Association of REALTORS®

Santa Cruz Association of REALTORS® Housing Foundation
The Housing Foundation currently has funds earmarked and available for immediate distribution to aide Santa Cruz County families in becoming homeowners through our closing cost grant program. We are also building relationships with each of the local housing agencies to help better coordinate our efforts towards making more local residents into homeowners.

Colorado

Colorado Association of Realtors

Housing Opportunity Foundation
The Colorado Association of REALTORS® Housing Opportunity Foundation (CARHOF) is a nonprofit foundation designed to assist housing efforts across the state. CARHOF is part of the Colorado Association of REALTORS®, the largest real estate trade association in the state, representing more than 26,500 members.

Metro Denver REALTOR® Foundation
The mission of MDRF is to improve our communities through housing, education and neighborhood improvements.

Florida

Pinellas Suncoast Association of Realtors

Pinellas Realtor Foundation
The Foundation provides funds and volunteers to support affordable/workforce housing; support education; support job opportunities and responds immediately to disaster relief efforts.

Osceola County Association of REALTORS®

Osceola REALTOR® Foundation
Our mission to improve lives and strengthen our community. Our vision is to build affordable/workforce homes throughout Osceola County in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity; support and promote education and job opportunities and to have funds and volunteers ready at a moment’s notice to provide disaster relief, wherever it is needed.

Greater Tampa Association of REALTORS® 

REALTORS® Care Foundation of GTAR
The Greater Tampa Association of REALTORS® was founded to form a public charity foundation to direct efforts to provide education assistance, housing assistance and affordable housing opportunities for Hillsborough County residents. 

Illinois

Illinois Association of REALTORS®

Partnership for HomeOwnership, Inc.

In 1996, the Illinois Association of REALTORS^®organized the Partnership for HomeOwnership, Inc. to help assist low-income rural Illinois residents achieve the dream of homeownership.  The Partnership has administered several multi-million dollar mortgage programs (in excess of $130 million), provided pre-purchase homebuyer counseling to over 1,500 Illinois residents, and is a HUD approved housing counseling agency

Indiana

Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of REALTORS®

REALTOR® Foundation
The REALTOR® Foundation provides REALTORS® the opportunity to make a difference by supporting the people, projects and services that shape the quality of their community.

Iowa

Iowa Association of REALTORS®

Iowa REALTOR® Foundation
Every year, the Iowa REALTOR® Foundation contributes thousands of dollars to affordable housing programs, scholarships for bright, young Iowans, and promotes other programs across the state that keep Iowa an attractive place to live.

Des Moines Area Association of REALTORS®

Foundation Grant
The DMAAR Foundation provides housing-related grants to organizations in the Des Moines metro area.

Kentucky

Lexington Bluegrass Association of Realtors

Realtor Community Housing Foundation
The REALTOR®-Community Housing Foundation depends on community volunteers, funders, and of course, REALTORS®, to ensure that the housing needs of the Bluegrass are met through home rehabilitation for the elderly, homeownership counseling for potential homebuyers, and installation of access ramps for the disabled. Whether you support RCHF with your time or treasure, your donation improves homes, neighborhoods, and the entire community.

Maine

Maine Association of Realtors

REALTORS® Affordable Housing Fund
The fund provides financial resources to groups and organizations for the purpose of funding activities, programs and services which directly or indirectly expand, create, maintain or encourage development of decent, suitable shelter and housing opportunities in Maine, including heating assistance, for individuals and families with low, very low, or no income.

Maryland

Maryland Association of Realtors

Partnership for Housing Foundation
The mission of this program is to assist Maryland homeowners with basic housing needs and improve their quality of life.

Massachusetts

Massachusetts Association of REALTORS®

Charitable & Educational Foundation
The Massachusetts Association of REALTORS® Charitable & Educational Foundation performs a variety of community outreach initiatives that promote professionalism within the real estate industry and provide assistance to needy individuals and the community at-large. Since its inception in 1992, the Foundation has implemented several grant programs aimed at furthering the REALTOR® tradition of giving back to the local community.

Minnesota

Minneapolis Area Association of REALTORS

Minneapolis Area Association Foundation
The association organized a Foundation in 1988 to provide financial assistance to housing related organizations in the Twin Cities. Our association provided the housing statistical information required to convince Fannie Mae to contribute $25 million in financing for the new Grant Park condominium project in downtown Minneapolis. Our association works cooperatively with the Home Ownership Center to provide affordable mortgage information to our members.

Saint Paul Area Association of REALTORS®

REALTORS® Housing Foundation
The RHF has contributed over $80,000.00 in the past ten years to housing-related charities. Your contribution brightens lives and improves the REALTOR® image.

Mississippi

Mississippi Association of Realtors

Mississippi Housing Opportunity Foundation
The Mississippi Association of REALTORS® and the Mississippi Bankers Association have partnered to create the Mississippi Housing Opportunity Foundation designed to foster higher homeownership rates among minority and low-to-middle income families through funds generated by interest earned on broker escrow accounts. The funds will provide grants and fund programs that extend housing opportunity to more Mississippians.

Hurricane Relief Fund
The Mississippi REALTOR® Hurricane Relief Fund was established in August 2005 in the hours before Hurricane Katrina struck a devastating blow to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It was designed to provide swift assistance to Mississippi families who sustained significant damage to their primary residences as a result of the unprecedented natural disaster.

Missouri

Missouri Association of REALTORS®

CENTER for Education & Private Enterprise
MAR’s CENTER for Education & Private Enterprise (the CENTER) is a not-for-profit foundation established in 1981 to provide consumer and business education to the youth of Missouri.

New Hampshire

New Hampshire Association of REALTORS®

REALTORS® Escrow Trust Accounts Program
REALTORS® Escrow Trust Account is a program by which REALTORS® may deposit
a home-buyer’s deposit money into an interest-bearing escrow account, and the
interest earned on that deposit is in turn donated to the nonprofit New Hampshire
Community Loan Fund.

New Jersey

New Jersey Association of REALTORS®

NJAR Housing Opportunity Foundation, Inc.
The New Jersey Association of REALTORS® Housing Opportunity Foundation, Inc. (NJARHOF) is a 501 (c) (3) charitable organization that seeks to create greater homeownership opportunities for New Jersey residents.

New York

New York State Association of REALTORS®, Inc.

NYSAR Housing Opportunities Foundation, Inc.
The New York State Association of REALTORS® created the Housing Opportunity Foundation (NYSARHOF) to provide financial resources to groups and organizations which sponsor or support activities, programs and services which directly or indirectly expand, create or encourage the development of crisis shelters, affordable housing and homeownership opportunities in New York for individuals and families with moderate, low and very low incomes.

Greater Rochester Association of REALTORS®

REALTORS® Charitable Foundation (RCF)
The REALTORS Charitable Foundation (RCF), a 501(c) (3) charitable organization was established in January, 2001. RCF’s Mission, “As the collective heart of Rochester’s real estate professionals, addressing critical housing needs and creating sustainable neighborhoods.

North Carolina

North Carolina Association of REALTORS®

Homes 4 NC
The North Carolina association has created Homes 4 NC- a non-profit foundation. The foundation distributes money to be used to benefit safe, decent, affordable housing or housing related needs in North Carolina.

Charlotte Regional REALTOR® Association

Housing Opportunity Foundation
As CRRA’s nonprofit branch, the foundation currently serves as the umbrella organization for the association’s focus on workforce housing. Current programs include the Humanitarian Award and the Workforce Housing Certificate Program (WHCP), which offers free educational workshops to Realtors®. As an extension of the certificate program, HOF also sponsors a community-wide Workforce Housing Fair.

Oklahoma

Oklahoma Association of REALTORS®

The Oklahoma Housing Foundation 

The Foundation is devoted to helping Oklahomans achieve their dreams of homeownership through direct down-payment assistance or financial contributions to non-profits focused on homeownership. There are four ways to support OHF: through escrow trust account sweeps, direct donations, purchasing a REALTOR® car tag and through "10/10 " program which encourages associates to donate $10 for each transaction they have and for their broker to match that with $10 of their own.

Ohio

Columbus Board of REALTORS®

REALTOR® Foundation Fund
The mission of the Columbus Board of REALTORS® Foundation Fund is to support real estate related programs and entities whose goals are to improve the overall real estate environment in Central Ohio.

Oregon

Oregon Association of REALTORS®

Oregon Association of REALTORS® Home Foundation
The OAR HOME Foundation provides financial resources to create, expand and encourage home ownership opportunities for Oregonians at or below local median income. OAR HOME promotes awareness of affordable housing issues by educating Oregonians and their representatives about the barriers to home ownership and the resources needed to increase housing affordability.

South Carolina

Charleston Trident Association of REALTORS®

REALTORS® Housing Opportunities Fund
The REALTORS Housing Opportunities Fund was established to create an endowed fund from which grants can be distributed to Low country organizations that assist in the development, maintenance, or repair of housing for those whose dreams of homeownership are challenged by our regions increasing sales prices. Our goal is to address both immediate and long-term needs through an endowed fund administered by one of our region's most trusted non-profit organizations, the Coastal Community Foundation.

Texas

Texas Association of Realtors

Texas Association of Realtors Housing Opportunity Foundation
Texas REALTORS® want to do more to help those who would like to own their own home but are facing barriers to realizing that dream. That's why the Texas Association of REALTORS® formalized this commitment, creating the Texas Association of REALTORS® Housing Opportunity Foundation (TARHOF), a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.

Utah

Utah Association of REALTORS®

Utah Association of REALTORS® Housing Opportunity Fund (UARHOF)
To provide financial assistance and resources to organizations which sponsor or support activities, programs, education and research that directly or indirectly expands, creates or encourages the development and/or redevelopment of adequate, safe and decent affordable housing and home ownership opportunities in Utah for individuals and families with moderate, low and very low income levels.

Virginia

Charlottesville Area Association of REALTORS®

Workforce Housing Fund
The CAAR Work Force Housing Fund (WFHF) was created in 2004 to address the need for affordable housing in local communities. The WFHF aids teachers, nurses, police officers, and fire fighters by providing financial assistance with the purchase of their homes. The program is administered by the Piedmont Housing Alliance (PHA), based in Charlottesville. PHA solicits and collects applications, then reviews each against a set of basic criteria making awards based upon that examination.

Fredericksburg Area Association of REALTORS®

The Realtors® Foundation
Our primary focus, but not exclusive focus, relates to housing needs, and as such the Foundation has established The Housing Relief Fund. This program is designed to assist local families struggling with hardships that threaten their ability to secure shelter.

Virginia Peninsula Association of REALTORS®

VPAR Charitable Foundation
A non-profit organization designed to raise monies through various fund-raising activities in support of local housing-related charities. The VPARCF consists of 12 volunteer Realtors and affiliates elected by the local Realtor Association. Since 2002, the VPARCF has raised and distributed over $40,000 to local charities.

Hampton Roads REALTORS® Association

HRRA Foundation
The HRRA Foundation is a channel for the charitable and community service energies of the professional real estate industry. The money donated to this foundation, by charter, must be directed to meeting the charitable needs of the community and for education of the public and the real estate industry.

West Virginia

Kanawha Valley Board of REALTORS®

Kanawha Valley Board of REALTORS® Foundation
To support public charities and community activities in Kanawha and Putnam Counties.

Wisconsin

The REALTORS® Association of South Central Wisconsin

Housing Foundation
The REALTORS® Association of South Central Wisconsin Housing Foundation is a non-profit organization under the IRS code 501(c)(3). Created in 1989, the purpose of the Foundation is to increase and improve the supply of affordable housing in Dane, Columbia, Dodge, Jefferson, Rock, Green, Iowa and Sauk counties by providing down payment assistance in the form of low interest loans to individuals and families.

Realtors® Association of Northwestern Wisconsin

RANWW Foundation
Our non-profit Foundation, which is funded completely through the contributions of our members, provides grants to our neighbors in need. Grants have been used for a variety of updates and installations including: Roof repairs, electrical upgrades, window replacements, garage door installation, plumbing updates, handicap access installation, well and septic updates, bathroom repairs, replacing hazardous steps, renovations to accommodate wheelchairs and replacing dangerous flooring.

If your association has a foundation or fund, please let us know. Email housingsolutions@realtors.org with your association’s name, the name of the foundation or fund, the website URL, and a brief description.