allow us to assist you on your pathway to a new home

Our Mission

Wider Path Home is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Our mission is to equip families by providing them with a solid pathway to achieve homeownership. We accomplish this by providing the following:

  •  top-tier financial literacy training, 

  • connecting them with conscientious lenders, and 

  • offering flexible down payment assistance that can even be paired with other sources, 

guiding both individuals and couples every step of the way to financing their home.

Homes are not just buildings where we are protected, but sacred places where we are rooted and where we can grow and thrive.  At Wider Path Home, we make homeownership inclusive so that everyone, especially those who have been historically excluded from this very important investment can also have an opportunity to build generational wealth in a home where their heart lives.

Our Why

It may surprise you that racial disparity in homeownership not only still exists, but the gap between White and African American homeownership is worse. Today, only 43% of African Americans own homes, while 72% of White Americans own homes. Wider Path Home Foundation is a nonprofit committed to helping African Americans and others who are overcoming generations of homeownership barriers. Join us in helping Americans who are overcoming years of redlining secure homes and build generational wealth. 

Producers: Pablo Gomez
Videographer and Editor Chris Broholm, Broholm Audio, LLC., Sound Mixer 

Outcomes to Date

States that have received our highest number of grants

  • 161 of Wider Path Home Foundation's homebuyers successfully purchased homes in Maryland 

  • 80 of Wider Path Home Foundation’s homebuyers successfully purchased in Virginia. 

  • 16 of Wider Path Home Foundation’s homebuyers successfully purchased in Pennsylvania. 

  • 5 of Wider Path Home Foundation’s homebuyers successfully purchased in each of these states: DC, West Virginia, and Delaware. 

  • Wider Path Home Foundation’s homebuyers successfully purchased in New Jersey (2), South Carolina (2), Alabama (1), Indiana (1), New Hampshire (1), Minnesota (1), New York (1), Rhode Island (1), and Arizona (1)

Top Partners

  • Greenline Housing Foundation, National: Expanding DPA access to a broader range of homeowners

  • Centro de Apoyo Familiar, Maryland: Helped us envision and implement our homebuyer education 

  • CCCSMD: Helped us design and implement our homebuyer education and continues to support our homebuyers with one-on-one housing counseling 

  • Impact RI, Rhode Island: Helped us design sessions and implement our homebuyer education 

  • MAHA: Boston, Massachusetts:  Helped us implement our homebuyer education

  • URBAN: Boston, Massachusetts:Helped us implement our homebuyer education 

  • NHS Baltimore, Maryland: Supported us in providing the greatest number of grants to homebuyers 

  • Making Change Center: Howard County, Maryland: Helping us expand the reach of Maryland and Howard County down payment assistance and homebuyer education programs in alignment with high-impact affordable housing advocacy leaders and non-profits

  • Down Payment Resource, National: Providing a generous $11,000 DPA grant to support eligible homebuyers. 

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