For career women raising children
You earnestly desire a home — and it's our desire that you find it.
We help women open the doors to a new life through homeownership — connecting them to every down payment assistance program they qualify for, with education, credit counseling, and grants of our own.
Applying is always free. Every woman who qualifies leaves with a path to assistance.
She works. She provides. She shows up for her children every single day. Yet the down payment stays just out of reach — while rent climbs and every payment builds equity for someone else.
The system was not built to give her a head start. It rewards the families who already had one. For a career woman a few years into her salary, the wall between renting and owning can feel impossibly tall.
We are here to help her over it. We are here to build homeowners.
Seek to Find helps a woman find the assistance she qualifies for — and adds our own — so she can buy and keep her first home.
Access to down payment assistance from every program she qualifies for — local, state, and national
Our own 3% forgivable grant, launched with Building Christian Fellowship of Suisun
A four-week homebuyer course that makes ownership stick
One-on-one credit counseling to strengthen her position
A personalized plan with every program stacked in her favor
The confidence to make an offer and protect herself at closing
A single grant runs out. Education alone doesn't pay the down payment. We unite assistance, education, and counseling so the help actually lasts.
We connect her to every down payment program she qualifies for — WISH, CalHFA, bank grants — and add our own forgivable grant on top.
A four-week homebuyer course covering money, credit, down payment assistance, and the buying process from offer to keys.
Personal credit counseling to lift her score, strengthen her position, and ready her for approval.
Because real change happens when the right help becomes a home, and a home becomes a foundation.
Our first grant — a 3% forgivable down payment grant funded in partnership with Building Christian Fellowship of Suisun, California. It's one of the ways we help, structured to reward staying: the longer she's home, the more of it is hers — until it's all hers.
After five years the grant is gone — and the home is fully hers.
Every woman we help completes the course and credit counseling first — so the home she buys is one she keeps.
Get honest about where you stand and build the runway to buy.
Understand the numbers lenders look at — and improve them.
Learn every program that can help — and how to stack them.
Walk into the purchase ready — and stay protected after.
Founder · Seek to Find
Carla Burris Ward worked for twenty years before she could afford a home of her own. She knows firsthand how hard it is to build a life in the Bay Area — to work, to raise children, and to reach for homeownership while doing it alone. That climb, and everything it taught her, is why Seek to Find exists.
She founded Seek to Find to reach into her own community and walk beside the women on that same road: to break the cycle that keeps them renting, open the door to homeownership, and help them build generational wealth their children will inherit. It's the head start she wishes someone had handed her.
The name is a promise. Every woman who comes to Seek to Find is earnestly seeking — to own real estate, to change the course of her life. And Seek to Find is where she finds it.
She built it on one belief: the women raising the next generation deserve to own the ground their children grow up on.
Rents keep climbing. Home prices keep climbing. And the gap between renting and owning has never been wider for the women who need a home the most.
Every year a family rents is another year of payments building someone else's wealth. The choices made today decide which families own a piece of tomorrow — and which keep getting priced out of it.
Waiting isn't neutral. Waiting is how the gap grows.
When a mother owns her home, her children grow up believing ownership is for people like them. They carry that belief into their own lives — into school, into work, into the homes they will one day own.
A home becomes the first inheritance her family has ever had to pass down. That's not just her future changing. It's theirs.
The question isn't whether something gets passed down. It's what.
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."
Matthew 7:7
If this sounds like you, you're exactly who Seek to Find was built for.
Applying is always free. The women we serve are never charged a thing.
Every gift funds Seek to Find directly — down payment grants, homebuyer education, and credit counseling. Pick the level that's right for you.
Note: These are giving levels for donors, sponsors, and banks. The women we serve never pay to apply or participate — your generosity is what keeps it free for them.
Seek to Find serves career women raising children who are working toward buying their first home. Exact eligibility — including income and readiness — is confirmed with you during the application and the four-week course, so the best first step is simply to apply. If it's not the right fit yet, we'll still point you toward assistance you can use.
No. Applying and participating are always free for the women we serve. The grant, the four-week course, and the credit counseling are funded by our donors, sponsors, and partner banks.
No. Our main job is helping you find and stack every down payment assistance program you qualify for — local, state, and national — and we add our own forgivable grant where funding allows. Even if our grant is spoken for, you'll leave with a path to assistance.
Our 3% forgivable grant — launched in partnership with Building Christian Fellowship of Suisun — is forgiven 20% for every year you live in the home. After five years it's 100% forgiven, so you never repay it as long as you stay.
A four-week program covering money and readiness, credit and financing, how the grant works, and the buying process from offer to closing. It's required before a grant is funded, so you're ready to buy and to keep your home.
Banks can fund Seek to Find directly and earn Community Reinvestment Act credit while helping low- and moderate-income families in their assessment area. Reach out through the Founding Partner option and we'll build a fit together.
Yes. Seek to Find is recognized as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions may be tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Tell us a little about you and where you want to go. It takes about a minute — and it's completely free.
A note on funding: Our grant funding is limited, and interest may be greater than what we can award directly. Every woman who applies receives guidance toward down payment assistance — through Seek to Find or another program she qualifies for. No one leaves without a next step.
The short form here — about a minute.
Readiness, credit, the grant, and the buying process.
We help you toward the grant, or the assistance you qualify for.
We'll reach out with your next step toward homeownership. Welcome to the beginning.
Whether you're ready to apply or ready to give, your next step builds a homeowner — and the generation behind her.
Empowering Career Women. Building Futures. Changing Generations.
