Our Mission

To help families flourish by owning a home, keeping their home, and thriving in their home.

We support Texas families during unforeseen crises by covering a rent or mortgage payment — or other essential housing expenses — to help them get through difficult seasons. Because housing instability deeply affects children, especially during a crisis, we work to keep families housed so they can focus on their health, their loved ones, and what truly matters.

When life gets shaky, we help families stand firm

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When life gets shaky, we help families stand firm 〰

Our Beginnings

Firm Foundations was created from a deeply personal understanding of how quickly a family’s stability can be shaken. Having experienced a devastating loss of their own home as children due in part to their father’s health challenges, Marc and Matt Wood began seeing similar struggles repeated in their own communities: responsible and hard-working families pushed to the brink by sudden medical, situational, or personal crises — a cancer diagnosis, a child awaiting a transplant, a parent suddenly unable to work, or a natural disaster.

Through partnerships with nonprofits, schools, hospitals, and community agencies, one gap became evident and impossible to ignore — meaningful rent and especially mortgage assistance is scarce when families need it most.

Firm Foundations exists to fill that gap and help families stay in their homes so a temporary crisis doesn’t become a permanent loss.

Our Beliefs

These basic beliefs of Firm Foundations represent the foundation of our organization and driving force of our mission:

  • We believe in the one God of the Bible, eternally existing in three persons as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We believe that God created the world and has ultimate authority at all times and in all places.

  • We believe that all humanity is created in the image of God and therefore has worth and that each and every person is loved by God.

  • We believe that sin has broken all things, leaving the world in desperate need of salvation. We believe that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone.

  • We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God, and is complete and without error in its original writings. The Bible reveals to us the nature of God, tells His story of salvation for mankind, and is sufficient as our guide to live as disciples of Jesus Christ as we walk in obedience to His commands.