# Rescue + Residence

Rescue + Residence believes that veterans provide a unique, powerful resource to a community and losing one to homelessness is a tragedy.

## Organization facts

- **Organization:** Rescue + Residence
- **Legal name:** RESCUE RESIDENCE
- **Organization type:** 501(c)(3) nonprofit
- **EIN:** 87-4110779
- **IRS 501(c)(3) ruling:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** Twentynine Palms, California
- **Primary cause:** Housing & Homelessness
- **IRS classification:** NTEE L99 — Housing & Homelessness
- **Cause confirmed by:** CV Giving Day review against the organization's own description
- **CV Giving Day status:** 2026 participant
- **Official website:** https://www.rescueresidence.org
- **Giving page:** https://www.mightycause.com/organization/RescueResidence

## About Rescue + Residence

Rescue + Residence believes that veterans provide a unique, powerful resource to a community and losing one to homelessness is a tragedy. To restore dignity to these veterans and resurrect their ability to contribute to our community, Rescue + Residence runs a holistic, 3-phase program that covers self-recovery, job skills training, and ends with the veteran designing and building a custom home in the back of a retired ambulance. We are a holistic program that finds Coachella Valley veterans experiencing homelessness with the desire and drive to complete our program and move forward toward a new, full life.

We provide veterans experiencing homelessness across Coachella Valley with safe and practical individual living quarters with a mailing address on day one.

We help the overburdened Veteran's Affairs offices with homeless outreach.

We help our participants attend meetings and training at support locations throughout Coachella Valley, mostly with Eisenhower Medical Facilities.

We coordinate with Best Friend's Closet, Find Food Bank, The Narrow Door, and others to provide on-site access to food and clothing options.

A critical program is our partnership with Coachella Valley businesses to provide job skills training (carpenter, electrician, plumber, etc.) and to help our program participants locate and apply for a future job anywhere in the country. For example, Coachella Valley Coffee Company has agreed to provide job skills training on coffee machine repairs to our program participants.

Our core program involves working with the veteran participant to design and build a high-quality home inside a retired ambulance that will take them on to a new job and a new fresh start.
Testimonials
Our volunteer outreach program recently supported the Palm Springs Unified School District school cleanup at Two Bunch Palms Elementary School in Desert Hot Springs.

## Record

- **Verified:** Identity confirmed against IRS records. Participation confirmed against CV Giving Day registration. Public information compiled from the organization's own sources. Organizations that have indicated a preference against search indexing on their CV Giving Day registration are excluded from search indexing and from this site's sitemap. A cause may come from the organization's own category selection, from its IRS classification, or from CV Giving Day review; the source is always stated on the page and in this record.
- **Participation years on record:** 2026
- **Years covered by our records:** 2025, 2026 (absence of a year does not mean the organization did not participate)
- **Last reviewed:** August 19, 2026
- **Canonical page:** https://www.cvgiving.org/nonprofits/rescue-residence/
- **Provided by:** Desert Community Foundation (501(c)(3), EIN 95-4725924)