Here’s Where Your Support Goes: Our 2025 Impact Report

Each year, we take time to pause, reflect, and look closely at what community care really looks like in practice. Our 2025 Impact Report is not just to share numbers, but to tell the story of what’s possible when we work together as a community to ensure access to hygiene is treated as essential, not optional.

This year’s report highlights how Simply the Basics worked across the country to increase access to quality hygiene essentials for individuals and families navigating hygiene insecurity. Behind every data point are real people. Parents caring for their families, students focused on school, job seekers preparing for interviews, and neighbors working toward stability and health.

How your support shows up

Hygiene is often overlooked in conversations about basic needs, yet it impacts physical health, mental well-being, confidence, and opportunity. Our report helps make that connection visible, showing how thoughtful and person centered hygiene distribution removes barriers and supports long-term well-being.

Inside the report, you’ll see how resources were invested to:

• Provide quality hygiene essentials through trusted community sites and choice-forward markets

• Support consistent, tailored access, not just one-time handouts.

• Strengthen programs that prioritize choice, effectiveness, and dignity

• Elevate and support a network of hygiene access across the country

You’ll see how people are now navigating daily life with fewer barriers because hygiene access was available when they needed it.

Thank you

This work is only possible because of the partners, donors, volunteers, and community members who show up alongside us. Your support fuels not just distribution, but a growing movement to strengthen our communities for everyone.

We invite you to take a look at the full report and see what we built together.