Breaking the cycle, One Car at a Time
2025 marked a turning point for Cars for Keeps. It was a year when we shifted from simply growing our program to intentionally strengthening our foundation.
This year, we accepted five new recipient families and placed vehicles totaling $47,267 and saved $7,452 in interest across all our partner families. As we worked alongside these families, we also took a close look at our operations. One challenge became clear. The time required to acquire vehicles was slowing our ability to respond when families were ready for change.
In response, we launched a $550,000 capital campaign to secure or build a permanent home for Cars for Keeps. This facility will allow us to obtain a dealer’s license, maintain a small inventory of vehicles, shorten placement timelines, and other recipients a choice. It will also create a faster, more dignified, and more sustainable path forward.
We also reached an important financial milestone this year, raising $173,522. These resources are helping us move toward positive cash ow while we continue placing vehicles and pursuing a permanent location. This positions us to serve families more eficiently today while preparing for greater impact tomorrow.
The outcomes for our families continue to inspire us. One recipient closed on a home, and several others achieved major financial milestones. They improved credit scores, paid down debt, and built stability that extends far beyond transportation. These successes reinforce what we know to be true. Reliable transportation is a catalyst, but long term empowerment is the goal.
Below, you’ll meet some of the incredible recipients whose lives have been changed through this mission. Their stories reflect the heart of what we do: restoring hope, one ride at a time.
Meet Chrystal, a Spring 2024 recipient
“My family has been blessed by Cars for Keeps in several areas. My teen boys are all in sports, and now we can make games and practices, I’m able to pick up overtime with the time saved from not riding the bus, and we can take fishing trips/family time when possible!”
Meet Jazmyne a Fall 2023 recipient
"With Cars for Keeps, you get a family, and a sense of love and security. You get a blanket of help that is there to hold you up and support you when you are in the middle of it all. You don’t just get a car with Cars for Keeps, you get a family, a prayer partner, and accountability to change your life."
Meet our 2026 program Participants!
Additional Families We Served
We support and empower those working to get out of poverty.
Having a reliable vehicle can mean the difference between employment and unemployment, safety and risk, and independence and helplessness. Studies show that having access to a reliable vehicle correlates with less stress, higher earnings, and more employment opportunities.
This is why Cars for Keeps not only leases vehicles to those in need, it also provides stability, freedom, dependable transportation, financial education classes, and most of all—hope to those working to find a way out of generational poverty.