Through the Fog was founded by Rachel , a widow who lost her parter Pat in April 2021. After his death, Rachel navigated a maze of paperwork, finances, and practical crises largely without a roadmap — not because people didn't care, but because the systems designed to help weren't built for someone in her situation.

That experience led her to build the organization she wished had existed.

Through the Fog exists specifically to fill the gaps that conventional support systems leave behind — for widows and widowers who qualify for resources but can't access them, who don't qualify at all, whose needs have no corresponding resource anywhere in the system, or who simply cannot navigate fragmented services alone while deep in grief.

Rachel founded Through the Fog on one belief: that no one should have to navigate grief alone.