Vivent Health, Inc.

Vivent Health, Inc., a nonprofit organization headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, acts as both a federal grant recipient (42% of recent awards) and subrecipient (58%), delivering HIV/AIDS clinical services, harm-reduction programming, and housing assistance to vulnerable populations across Wisconsin, Colorado, Missouri, and Texas through grants administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Health and Human Services, and state health departments.

Vivent Health's federal footprint centers on HIV/AIDS service delivery grounded in a clinical medical-home model. As a prime recipient, the organization holds Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) grants from HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, including a $1.263 million Project Grant effective February 2026 through February 2029 serving the Glendale, Wisconsin area with tenant-based rental assistance, transitional and permanent supportive housing, short-term housing assistance, and case management. The organization also received a formula HOPWA grant from HUD (award date April 2025, completion November 2028) targeting low-income Black and Latinx individuals living with HIV in the Denver metro area, with expected outcomes including short-term rent, mortgage, and utility assistance to 15 households and supportive services to 58 households. A third HOPWA formula award (January 2024, completion January 2027) funded Vivent's Harm Reduction Through Stable Housing Shelter (HARTSS) program providing tenant-based rental assistance and supportive services to 50 homeless households living with HIV. Vivent also holds a Ryan White Title III capacity-development grant from HHS's HIV/AIDS Bureau ($150 thousand, September 2022 through August 2023) that funded infrastructure expansion—buildout of eight new dental operatories—to support its HIV medical home in Milwaukee, positioning Vivent as Wisconsin's largest provider of outpatient HIV dental care across clinics in Milwaukee, Madison, and Green Bay.

Customer concentration aligns heavily with HUD and HHS. The top five funding customer tiers by award count account for 75% of recent awards and comprise HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (25 awards), HHS Health Resources and Services Administration (23 awards), HHS SAMHSA (9 awards), and other HHS/HRSA sub-tiers (11 and 4 awards respectively). The organization serves 15 distinct customer agencies. In its subrecipient role, Vivent partners with state health departments in Wisconsin and Colorado, the University of Wisconsin System, the City and County of Denver, and Northwestern University on Ryan White Part B supplemental grants, HIV prevention and surveillance activities, overdose-response programming, and research collaborations. Vivent also subcontracts to ICF Incorporated on the Needle Exchange Utilization Survey (NEXUS), a federal data-collection project, with sub-award dates in April 2025 and April 2026 covering technical supervision and protocol implementation.

Activity has fluctuated modestly year over year—seven awards in 2022, peaking at nineteen in 2024, with fifteen in 2025 and four through mid-2026. Only one award completes within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal near-term recompete pressure. Recent grant subrecipient work includes a January 2026 sub-award from the University of Wisconsin System for mobile health strategies supporting people who use drugs, where Vivent provides recruitment sites, trains and supports harm-reduction staff, and facilitates participant engagement with mobile health services; a March 2026 sub-award from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services for HIV linkage-to-care case management in the St. Louis region; and multiple sub-awards from Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for Ryan White Part B supplemental funding and integrated HIV surveillance and prevention activities. Vivent's capability portfolio—HIV medical care delivery, dental specialization for people living with HIV, syringe services and harm reduction, housing-focused case management, and community-based prevention research—operates across a defined four-state footprint with demonstrated scale in urban markets, particularly Milwaukee and Denver.