Gibson Foundation

About Gibson Foundation

Gibson Foundation is a recovery housing provider in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Gibson Foundation is a nonprofit sober living operator running three licensed recovery homes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, all in the city's Frankford section.

A Philadelphia Nonprofit Recovery Housing Provider

Gibson Foundation operates as a nonprofit organization, structuring its housing work as a community service. It runs recovery housing alongside broader support services in the Frankford area of Northeast Philadelphia, and its three houses are licensed under the same framework.

Three Licensed Homes in Frankford

• A men's house on Womrath Street.
• A men's house at 3472 Frankford Avenue.
• A women's house at 3867 Frankford Avenue.

Two of the three serve men and one serves women, and all three sit within the same section of the city, close enough that residents share access to the same transit line and clinics regardless of which house they are in.

Licensed Under Pennsylvania's Act 59

The Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs licenses all three Gibson Foundation houses as recovery houses under Act 59 of 2017. Licensure is voluntary in Pennsylvania, and holding it across an entire three-house portfolio is not something every operator does.

PARR and Recovery Residence Certification in Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Alliance of Recovery Residences is the state's NARR affiliate and certifies recovery residences separately from DDAP licensure. An operator carrying both marks has agreed to a second layer of published standards on top of the state license.

Serving Philadelphia's Frankford Neighborhood

Frankford is a dense, transit-connected section of Northeast Philadelphia served by the Market-Frankford Line, and the city's Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services runs a citywide recovery house initiative that intersects with neighborhoods like this one. Gibson Foundation's cluster of houses sits inside that broader Philadelphia recovery housing landscape.

One Nonprofit, Two Populations Served

Gibson Foundation separates its men's and women's housing at the address level. That keeps house rules, meetings and shared space specific to one population at each address, a structure common among Pennsylvania nonprofit recovery housing providers running more than one house.

Contacting Gibson Foundation

Applications for any of the three Frankford houses go through Gibson Foundation as an organization. The nonprofit's Philadelphia office coordinates intake across all three addresses directly.