The Allstate Basis commits $5 million to deal with the speedy wants of relationship abuse survivors

Key takeaways:

• The Nationwide Home Violence Hotline and FreeFrom will every obtain a further $2.5 million from The Allstate Basis. That is the most important single grant from a company funder in FreeFrom’s historical past.
• The Allstate Basis is dedicated to decreasing the prevalence of relationship abuse and is among the main company funders of this concern, investing greater than $100 million up to now 20 years.
• The Allstate Basis additionally launched the Survivor Empowerment Community, a nationwide initiative to encourage employers to create workplaces that assist survivors.
• 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 7 males will expertise relationship abuse of their lifetime¹.

NORTHBROOK, Unwell., Nov. 13, 2025 – The Allstate Foundation is offering $5 million in funding to the National Domestic Violence Hotline and FreeFrom. These transformative grants will assist survivors’ speedy wants: emergency disaster assist and money help to achieve security. The Allstate Basis has contributed greater than $100 million to disrupt the cycle and scale back the prevalence of relationship abuse over the previous 20 years, together with $9 million to organizations within the home violence sector this yr. Additionally in 2025, the Survivor Empowerment Network was launched to mobilize and have interaction employers to create workplaces that assist survivors. 

Kate Nack, VP, The Allstate Basis and Social Influence: “Survivors and the organizations that assist them should thrive. The Hotline and FreeFrom are longtime companions, engaged on the frontlines to offer direct help to survivors in disaster. These grants and the Survivor Empowerment Community are about constructing a motion of holistic assist that endures, so lifesaving work can proceed, and extra survivors get the assistance they want. For 20 years, we’ve labored to disrupt the cycle of relationship abuse, and these newest efforts replicate our long-term dedication to this concern.”

Katie Ray-Jones, CEO, Nationwide Home Violence Hotline: “We’re deeply grateful to The Allstate Basis for this $2.5 million funding within the Nationwide Home Violence Hotline, furthering survivor security and empowerment. The Allstate Basis’s dedication to supporting victims and survivors of home violence has been unwavering, and this transformative present represents greater than funding—it’s a strong assertion that ending home violence requires all of us working collectively. This assist comes at a important time when demand for our providers continues to develop, and it’ll allow us to reply extra calls, practice extra advocates, and finally assist save extra lives. We’re honored by The Allstate Basis’s continued partnership and shared dedication to making a world the place all relationships are secure and wholesome.”

Sonya Passi, founder and CEO, FreeFrom: “We’re extremely moved by this transformational present from The Allstate Basis—and it comes at simply the best time. These funds will assist survivors of gender-based violence get to security, feed their youngsters, stay housed, and rebuild their monetary autonomy and futures. We’re immensely grateful for The Allstate Basis’s courageous management within the motion to finish gender-based violence and its real and unflinching dedication to survivors.”

Supporting survivors’ speedy wants

1 in 4 girls and 1 in 7 males will expertise relationship abuse of their lifetimes¹, and almost all may even endure monetary abuse. Survivors report that entry to monetary assets is the highest barrier to reaching security, sometimes getting access to a median quantity of solely $175.50².

• The funds will enable The Hotline to reply extra calls and improve capability, together with establishing an Atlanta advocate middle hub. These efforts will proceed The Hotline’s work to offer life-saving assist to survivors and their family members as the quantity will increase year-over-year, with greater than half 1,000,000 calls answered in 2025 thus far.
• For FreeFrom, the funding will go on to their money help packages that allow survivors to construct monetary safety and independence.

Inviting employers to create survivor-supportive workplaces

Survivors lose a complete of 8 million paid days of labor per yr as a result of home violence, the equal of 32,000 full-time jobs³.  As well as, greater than 90% of survivors say abuse disrupted their skill to maintain a job⁴. That’s why The Allstate Basis launched the Survivor Empowerment Network, a nationwide initiative  inviting employers to create survivor-supportive workplaces. This new community enhances The Allstate Basis’s year-round dedication to grantmaking to deal with the home violence concern.

Nack mentioned, “Each enterprise employs survivors. When survivors thrive, so does our economic system. That’s why The Allstate Basis is rallying employers to take motion.”

By way of the Survivor Empowerment Community, employers have entry to sensible instruments that assist defend survivors’ dignity, assist their monetary independence and create a secure office:

• Versatile work preparations
• Paid day without work and guarded depart
• Paycheck advances and suppleness (e.g., cut up direct deposit)
• Psychological well being assets
• Home violence consciousness coaching for managers and staff

For extra data go to the Survivor Empowerment Network.

In the event you’re experiencing abuse, name The Nationwide Home Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233, Textual content BEGIN to 88788, or go to thehotline.org to start out a chat or be taught extra.

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About The Allstate Basis
The Allstate Foundation empowers individuals and communities to thrive. Established in 1952, we take a trust-based strategy to philanthropy that facilities the wants of the nonprofit and the stakeholders they serve. By way of daring actions and galvanizing individuals to behave, we empower youth to serve, disrupt the cycle of relationship abuse and improve entry to thriving wage careers. We amplify all company and agent volunteer efforts by our Serving to Arms match and grant packages, assist communities earlier than and after disasters and develop nonprofit leaders and boards by the Nonprofit Management Heart. Study extra at www.allstatefoundation.org,  LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

^{1 & 3} Black, M.C., Basile, Ok.C., Breiding, M.J., Smith, S.G., Walters, M.L., Merrick, M.T., Chen, J., & Stevens, M.R. (2011). The Nationwide Intimate Associate and Sexual Violence Survey: 2010 Abstract Report.

² FreeFrom. (2022). Help Each Survivor: How Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality and Incapacity Form Survivors’ Experiences and Wants.