Office of Refugee Resettlement

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families is a civilian sub-agency that administers federal grants funding child welfare, foster care, family support, refugee services, and related programs serving vulnerable populations and families nationwide.

The Administration for Children and Families has obligated $90.49 billion in federal grant funding across 2,830 awards since 2010. Recent grant activity has declined sharply: 373 awards in 2022, 316 in 2023, 234 in 2024, 145 in 2025, and 53 year-to-date in 2026. The most recent recorded grant award dates to May 2026. The combined total dollars obligated (federal plus non-federal share) reaches $91.54 billion, indicating substantial leveraging of non-federal match or co-funding from grant recipients.

Grant recipient concentration is moderately concentrated among the top five by federal dollars, which hold 25 percent of recent federal dollars obligated. Southwest Key Programs Inc. is the dominant recipient by dollar volume with 13 awards obligating $10.45 billion; Compass Connections ranks second with 18 awards and $5.69 billion obligated. By award count over the last five years, concentration is highly fragmented, with the top five recipients holding only 9 percent of recent awards—Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service Inc. leads with 26 awards ($1.89 billion), followed by U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Inc. with 23 awards ($2.69 billion). This distribution reflects a portfolio serving multiple service-delivery partners and state and local agencies across child welfare and immigrant services.

Across the assistance-type mix, grants are distributed relatively evenly: Cooperative Agreements account for 27 percent of awards (762), followed by Project Grants and Block Grants at 25 percent each (711 and 707 awards), and Formula Grants at 23 percent (650 awards). The blend of formula, block, project, and cooperative structures indicates funding flows both to state and local jurisdictions (via formula and block grants) and to individual nonprofit and government service providers (via project grants and cooperative agreements).

No recent contract opportunities are recorded against the agency. No recent grant opportunities are recorded in the source data. Business development professionals evaluating this agency should note the significant decline in award activity from 2022 to 2026 and target the dominant recipient organizations and state child-welfare and refugee-services administrators already managing large federal portfolios.