Population: Low-income

Doorways

EIN: 54-1087829

Mission Statement


Doorways creates pathways out of domestic violence, sexual assault, and homelessness, leading to safe, stable, and empowered lives.

Program Summary

Doorways’ response to domestic and sexual violence spans a spectrum—from preventing violence, to supporting survivors and their families throughout our community, to providing shelter and housing. We offer a wide range of trauma-informed services designed to meet survivors’ complex needs. All services are free, confidential, and available in all languages (multiple languages spoken in-person onsite, and more available through a language line). Through the generosity of our partners and supporters, we provide safe harbor, healing, and hope.

Community Engagement

Doorways partners with our neighbors, supporters, and fellow service providers to realize our mission every day.

Community-Based Services

Doorways supports survivors throughout our community with a wide range of crisis response services, advocacy, and counseling.

Shelter, Housing, and Supportive Services

Doorways provides Arlington’s only emergency safehousing for survivors experiencing homelessness due to domestic and sexual violence. HomeStart, Doorways’ housing program, supports clients transitioning out of shelter to a home of their own.

Impact Statement

2025 was another record-breaking year for Doorways:

Read Doorways’ annual report to learn more about how supporters like you make a difference for survivors like the ones quoted here:

“Doorways saved my life and has changed everything.”

“Doorways has helped my child open up, express her feelings, and communicate. She loves to attend play therapy where we see a huge change with issues we had prior to coming.”

“I have learned to understand my situations and got help with getting custody of my son. This is a great resource for victims of domestic violence.”

“My mental health has improved greatly post-assault. I was having trouble taking care of myself because I was mentally in a sad state. Doorways’ therapy sessions have taught me how to cope and recover in a healthy way. I feel fully supported here.”

What ways can the public get involved?

How are charitable dollars spent? Where does my donation go?

Every year, half of Doorways’ budget comes from private donations. These monetary gifts from individuals, businesses, foundations, and corporate, faith, civic, and community groups ensure that Doorways is able to provide safe haven to every survivor in-need.  

Information provided March 2026

True Ground Housing Partners (formerly APAH)

EIN: 54-1414133

Mission Statement

We exist to provide quality affordable housing and resident-centered programming to help our residents make the most of their home.

Program Summary

Our homes provide residents with the foundation to live their dreams. Our resident services program strives to propel residents’ efforts to achieve their personal and professional goals. Together, these programs strive to elevate residents across lower levels of economic status throughout our community.

Specifically, our resident services program is centered around a mission to provide assistance to all True Ground residents and help them eliminate barriers to obtaining self-sufficiency. This is achieved through more targeted goals for four programmatic pillars: housing stability; economic mobility; health and wellness; and children, youth and families. Ultimately, it is our hope that True Ground residents either break the cycle of poverty and their children have the academic and social capital to receive post-secondary education/training and acquire a family-sustaining job, or that adults are able to age in place in their apartment living a healthy, quality life in pursuit of their own professional and personal goals

Impact Statement

True Ground’s vision guides our work: Everyone deserves a place to call home – a foundation to live their dreams.

Our growing Resident Services program and regional real estate development projects positively impact the resilient, diverse populations that True Ground serves.

What ways can the public get involved?

True Ground accepts charitable and in-kind donations as a charitable nonprofit organization.

Volunteers are critical to our regular operations; they help with supplemental nutrition distribution, after-school activities, community-building events, and much more.

Neighbors and housing advocates can support local initiatives that advance affordable housing priorities in their communities

How are charitable dollars spent? Where does my donation go?

Philanthropic funding at True Ground supports our mission to provide affordable housing in the region and resident-centered programming to benefit those who call our communities home. Our resident services program is funded entirely through philanthropic gifts like yours.

Information provided March 2025

Arlington Community Foundation

EIN: 54-1602838

Mission Statement

Arlington Community Foundation (ACF) uses the power of philanthropy and its role as community convener and catalyst to improve the quality of life in Arlington and beyond.

As a grantmaker, convener, and leader of programmatic initiatives, ACF strives to strengthen local nonprofits, encourage better understanding of the needs of Arlingtonians, and address the most critical issues of our time to ensure that our community provides opportunity for everyone.

Program Summary

Personalized Philanthropy – For over 30 years, individuals, families, and businesses have relied on us to make charitable giving easy, flexible, tax-smart, efficient, personal, and deeply rewarding. We’re experts in vetting nonprofits and philanthropic investment strategies, so you don’t have to be.

Economic Mobility – With a unique bird’s eye view of Arlington, ACF serves as a community convener, nonprofit reserve fundholder and grantmaker, and driver of major community initiatives and in-house community impact funds to create economic opportunities and prevent displacement, with a special focus on deeply affordable housing, deeply affordable childcare, and pathways to living wages.

Scholarships – Arlington Community Foundation has a well-established Annual Scholarship Program that, over the last decade, has awarded more than $5 million to Arlington students attending college. Generous individuals, families, companies and organizations fund the scholarships, which have their own unique eligibility criteria.

Impact Statement

Philanthropy Impact: In 2023, with the support of so many community members, we provided over $5 million in grants to nonprofits and community programs. We currently manage over $30 million in assets, with over 200 funds, including 20+ nonprofit agency funds. Behind each fund is an inspiring story of passion and purpose, put into action through philanthropy. Such is the case with one of our newer legacy fundholders, Dimple Dhabalia. Dimple’s two-decade career in humanitarian work is marked by a profound connection between her own story and the lives she touches through her work and legacy fund. Read her story here.

Economic Mobility Impact: Community advocacy based on our 2023 Affordable Childcare Report led the County Board in April 2023 to fund, beginning in FY 24, a new full-time senior level DHS position to support the implementation of the Child Care Action Plan, among other priorities. In June 2023, the findings of our recently-completed deeply affordable housing pilots demonstrated feasible pathways to closing the affordability gap for our lowest income neighbors. Concluding in December 2023, the data and lessons learned from our 18-month guaranteed income pilot, and pilots from around the country, are being used to inform national policy that would create a federal income floor under which no one in our country can fall.

Scholarship Impact: In 2023, ACF awarded more than $700,000 in scholarships to new and renewal students. To celebrate the achievement of these students, ACF hosted a Scholarships Ceremony in June, filled with students, their families, and scholarship donors. During the ceremony, 11 scholarship recipients shared what the scholarship means to them in an inspiring video. You can watch the video here.

What ways can the public get involved?

There are several ways to get involved with the Community Foundation:

How are charitable dollars spent? Where does my donation go?

Unrestricted donations help the Foundation support long-term solutions; respond quickly to emergencies; and meet changing social, arts and cultural, educational, health and human services, or environmental needs in our community.

A collection of Photos showing the following: students at the scholarship ceremony, judge Bill Newman presenting at the Spirit of Community awards, Christian Dorsey speaking on stage with Darrick Hamilton and Nisha Patel, the Arlington's Guarantee pilot evaluation report, and the barcroft apartments.

Information provided March 2024