Bill Wilson Center

Bill Wilson Center, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Santa Clara, California, acts as a federal grant recipient delivering homelessness intervention and youth services to HUD and the Department of Justice, with 87% of recent awards as a direct grant recipient and 13% as a sub-recipient receiving pass-through funding from state and local agencies.

The organization's federal footprint concentrates overwhelmingly in homelessness and runaway-youth programs. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development funds 81 of the organization's 120 recent awards through the Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267) and Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP). Representative awards include a $606,938 CoC Program grant (effective April 1, 2026, through March 31, 2027) supporting permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, and Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) for Santa Clara County; a $512,986 YHDP award (January 1–December 31, 2026) targeting youth under 24 years old; and a $344,901 CoC award (December 1, 2025, through November 30, 2026) supporting similar housing and services components. The Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, funds runaway and homeless youth programs including a Basic Center Program grant (CFDA not specified) that runs through September 29, 2026, providing emergency shelter and counseling to youth under 18, and a Transitional Living Program and Maternity Group Homes award (CFDA not specified) effective through September 29, 2024. Bill Wilson Center also receives sub-awards from the California Office of Emergency Services and Santa Clara County, including pass-through funding for transitional housing for crime victims (2017 Housing First Model approach), therapeutic services for child abuse victims, and crisis response support following the 2021 Santa Clara County VTA shooting.

Customer concentration is singular and structural to the organization's mission. HUD's Community Planning and Development office accounts for 81 awards across a twenty-two-year grant history dating to 2004. The Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime funds 15 sub-awards (passed through California's Office of Emergency Services), and the Administration for Children and Families accounts for 12 awards under the Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) programs. The four-agency concentration (99% of awards) reflects the organization's exclusive focus on federal social-service programs in homelessness, youth crisis intervention, and victim services.

Activity shows modest recent volume with seven awards per year on average over the past five years (2022: 7, 2023: 12, 2024: 13, 2025: 10, 2026: 3 year-to-date). Seven awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and face renewal or recompete. The combined potential value across all 120 awards in the source stands at $47.7 million, reflecting the modest per-award grant sizes typical of CoC and RHY programming ($140,935 to $606,938 per award in recent CoC rounds). Bill Wilson Center does not hold federal contracts, IDIQs, or GWACs; its federal footprint is entirely grant-based and operates under direct HUD and DOJ program authority rather than through competitive procurement vehicles.