Sound Foundations NW

During GiveBIG 2026, We're Offering Our

Largest Matching Fund Ever!

Sound Foundations NW (SFNW) is addressing the homelessness crisis in western Washington by producing transitional tiny homes with our quick, efficient, cost effective, and streamlined building system. 

Since the start of 2025, five more tiny home villages have opened in Seattle(x3), Tacoma, and Tukwila, a 6th and 7th are under construction, and an 8th was just announced!  All told in 2025-26, up to ten new villages are planned and nearly 500 tiny homes are needed to fill all these additional villages!

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We've built more than 725 tiny homes, and counting, since 2018!

Our 15,000 s.f. building facility in Seattle's SODO district, The Hope Factory, hosts 15-25 daily volunteers working on our assembly-line-style and no-experience-necessary building system, constructing roughly 12 tiny homes at a time, six days per week.  With our system, SFNW builds an entire village’s worth of tiny homes in 10-12 weeks.

Our tiny homes are wood-frame construction and well insulated, with two operable windows and a locking front door, all architect-designed to last up to twenty years.  After they leave the Hope Factory, homes have electricity, overhead light, heat, and a/c installed.  These are substantial and dignified temporary homes that offer stability, security, and community.

Once in a village, residents have access to the dignity of restroom/shower facilities, kitchens and laundry, plus professional staff who offer counseling, treatment, education, and community-building. While residents recover from the trauma of living on the street and prepare for permanent housing, our city streets, parks, and tourist attractions are once again more available for everyone’s enjoyment. 

• Tiny home villages had a 90% occupancy rate in 2025, making them one of the most desired shelter options.
• More than 6000 people have transitioned through tiny homes on their journey out of homelessness.
• In 2025, more than 98% of those who moved from tiny homes to permanent housing were still housed one year later.
  
• Historically, each transitional tiny home provides a warm, safe, and dry space for up to 3 people each year who would otherwise be on the streets, and up to 60 neighbors over the designed 20-year life of each home.
• We still build one tiny home for just $4500 worth of materials - a fraction of the cost of other shelter types.

These stats mark tiny homes as the most desirable, effective, and affordable alternative to tents, encampments, and RV's, to help move our homeless neighbors off the streets and farther along their journey to permanent housing.  

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Will YOU Help Show Someone They're Worth It?

During GiveBIG 2026, we are offering our largest ever matching fund!  Thanks goes to the Beeks Family Legacy Foundation and the Brettler Family Foundation who are together matching every donation up to the first $50,000.  If we collect all of our pledged matching funds, we'll have raised enough for more than 22 new tiny homes that will shelter up to 1300 of our neighbors over their designed 20 year lifespan.  Will you join us to help move over 1000 of our neighbors experiencing homelessness off the streets?

   Donations are being matched by 100% for the first $50,000 !!  

  Give $100 and our building fund receives $200 !!  

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In times of limited resources, tiny homes are an affordable and tangible way to help relieve the crisis of unsheltered homelessness all around us. You can be a part of this grassroots effort by supporting Sound Foundations NW. Please make a generous one-time or ongoing donation, today. If your situation allows, please consider sponsoring one or more complete tiny homes at the $4500 level.

Please know that your gift, at any amount, makes a visible difference right now as we build towards our milestone 750th tiny home and continue to bring our unsheltered neighbors inside and off the ground.

Thank you!