Aids Alabama Inc.

Aids Alabama Inc., a Birmingham, Alabama–based nonprofit community development corporation, operates as a prime recipient of federal grants focused on housing assistance, HIV/AIDS services, and health insurance navigation, with 91% of its award footprint as direct prime grants and the remainder as sub-awards from state health agencies. The organization holds no federal contracts; its entire $65.7 million federal portfolio across 98 awards consists of grants and cooperative agreements administered through the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Aids Alabama's capability portfolio centers on permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, rental assistance, case management, and wraparound supportive services for individuals experiencing homelessness and persons living with HIV/AIDS. The organization also operates substance use treatment programs, mental health services, HIV/STI testing and counseling, and healthcare navigation for vulnerable and underserved populations including low-income individuals, LGBTQ+ communities, minorities, and rural Alabamians. Representative prime grants include a $885,108 three-year Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA, CFDA 14.241) award from HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development effective February 10, 2026, funding comprehensive housing and supportive services in Birmingham through February 9, 2029; a $1,282,769 Continuum of Care (CoC, CFDA 14.267) project grant also from HUD effective September 1, 2025, supporting permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, and transitional housing operations through August 31, 2026; and a $15 million cooperative agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CFDA number not provided in source) dated August 27, 2024, running through August 26, 2029, to operate the Enroll Alabama navigator project serving 22,000 Alabamians annually and assisting over 1,000 in health plan enrollment across the state through trained navigators. A fifth grant—awarded September 30, 2024, by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and completing September 29, 2029—funds the Living in Balance project, an integrated care model combining psychiatric services, substance use treatment, vocational rehabilitation, HIV prevention and treatment, and case management for people with HIV/AIDS and co-occurring substance use or mental health disorders.

HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development dominates customer concentration, accounting for 76 awards across CoC Program project grants and HOPWA formula grants, representing the vast majority of the organization's award count and dollar volume. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and SAMHSA round out the active grantor set, with six CDC awards, six CMS cooperative agreements (including the ongoing navigator program), and five SAMHSA grants focused on substance use treatment and HIV prevention.

The organization's corporate structure includes four named subsidiaries: Centro De Acceso Para Latinos De Alabama, LLC (Latino-focused access services); Mobile Supportive Housing Inc. (shelter operations); Agape II, Inc. (domestic shelter); and The Agape Foundation Inc. In the sub-award role, Aids Alabama receives pass-through funding from the Alabama Department of Health to implement HIV prevention, ending the HIV epidemic strategies, and viral suppression initiatives, as well as substance use treatment funding from the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Retardation. Recent sub-awards include HIV prevention implementation and EHE strategy funding from the state health department (February 2025) and emergency overnight shelter operations for homeless youth ages 19 to 29 through the Way Station program (July 2025).

Activity has remained modest but steady over the past five years, with four awards in 2022, seven in 2023, six in 2024, and nine in 2025, reflecting a baseline engagement with HUD's annual CoC and HOPWA cycles. Only four awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, indicating limited near-term recompete exposure in the source period. The organization does not compete for federal contracts and maintains no presence on government-wide acquisition vehicles; its federal footprint is exclusively grant-based, concentrated in social services and health-related missions within Alabama's service area.