American Home Finding Association

American Home Finding Association, doing business as Foster Grant Parents & Emergency Shelter, is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization operating as a prime recipient of federal grants, split evenly between prime grants and sub-grants passed through state agencies. The organization holds no federal contracts and operates on a 50-50 prime-to-sub split across sixteen awards totaling $5.3 million in combined obligations, with recent activity concentrated in AmeriCorps programming and maternal and child health services.

The organization's primary federal footprint centers on two customer agencies accounting for 100% of tracked awards. The Corporation for National and Community Service (via its Office of Grants Management) has awarded four grants under the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011), including a $202,109 grant awarded July 1, 2026, running through June 30, 2029. Under that award, American Home Finding Association will operate the Foster Grandparent Program in Iowa, engaging volunteers aged 55 and older in one-on-one mentoring and tutoring of children with special needs or academic or social disadvantages. Volunteers serve approximately twenty hours per week in schools, early education and childcare centers, and other community settings. The organization's sub-grant footprint draws from the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (five sub-awards) and the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (three sub-awards), all flowing through the Iowa Department of Public Health as prime grantee. Sub-award work includes Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) support — breastfeeding peer counseling, nutrition services administration, and breast pump rental and equipment procurement — and community-based maternal health programs.

Activity has grown from one award in 2020 and 2023 to five awards in 2025 and two in 2026. The organization's AmeriCorps grant requires a 10 percent statutory match and 14.2 percent budgetary match, with recordkeeping obligations extending three years from submission of the final Federal Financial Report. As a non-contractor operating solely within the grant-recipient channel, American Home Finding Association does not compete on federal procurement vehicles, does not maintain contract schedules or IDIQs, and does not serve as a subcontractor to federal prime contractors.