Impact Gulfcoast began with a simple realization: when life changes overnight, too many families are left to navigate it alone.

For years, we kept seeing the same pattern across our community. Families facing serious illness, injury, or unexpected hardship were doing everything they could, and still falling through the cracks. Medical care was only part of the burden. Travel, lodging, missed work, and everyday living expenses quickly became overwhelming at the exact moment stability mattered most.

Over time, that reality stopped feeling abstract. It became personal.

Members of the Stidham family, along with several of our employees and loved ones, have been directly affected by cancer and other serious illnesses. We experienced firsthand how quickly life can shift, and how hard it can be to focus on healing when financial stress is pressing in from every direction.

Those experiences made one thing clear: no one should have to choose between their health and their financial stability.