Appleseed Community Mental Health Center

Appleseed Community Mental Health Center, Inc., doing business as Appleseed Counseling, is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Ashland, Ohio, that serves as a prime recipient of federal homelessness and victim-services grants, with a secondary role as a sub-recipient of state-administered federal mental health, opioid response, and crime victim programs.

Appleseed operates almost exclusively in the federal grant space, with no federal contracts in the source record. The organization's footprint splits evenly between prime grant awards (52% of recent activity) and sub-recipient roles (48%), reflecting dual positioning as both a direct HUD grantee and a pass-through recipient of Ohio state agency funding. The vendor's grant portfolio totals $3.6 million obligated across 31 awards since 2004, with recent annual activity ranging from one to four awards per year. All prime awards flow through the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267), a five-consecutive-year stream of project grants supporting rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing for persons with disabilities, transitional housing, case management, job training, substance abuse support, and mental health treatment for homeless individuals and families in rural Ohio. Appleseed's most recent HUD COC award, dated August 1, 2026, carried $227,011 for the period ending July 31, 2027. Prior annual COC awards totaled $205,732 (fiscal year 2026) and $188,310 (fiscal year 2025).

HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development dominates the customer base, accounting for 16 awards across the portfolio. The remaining coverage spreads across the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (5 awards), the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime (4 awards), the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (3 awards), and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (1 award), collectively representing 94% of all awards. In its sub-recipient role, Appleseed receives flow-through funding from the Ohio Department of Mental Health (Annual Mental Health Block Grant and State Opioid Response awards), the Ohio Attorney General (Crime Victim Services), and the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services (domestic violence and victim services programming under STOP VAWA and FVPSA). Recent sub-awards include Crime Victim Services grants dated October 2025 and October 2024 from the Ohio Attorney General, the State Opioid Response 3.0 award dated May 2024 from the Ohio Department of Mental Health, and domestic violence victim advocacy and emergency shelter programming funded through Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services grants spanning 2022 to 2023. Only one award carries a completion date within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure in the vendor's active portfolio.