Cape Assist, Inc.

Cape Assist, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Wildwood, New Jersey, delivers substance abuse prevention, youth mental health training, and opioid-response programming to federal agencies as a prime grant recipient (46% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient on federal pass-through grants routed through the New Jersey Department of Human Services (54% of recent awards). The organization has served Cape May County since registering with SAM.gov in 2006 and operates under no federal contract vehicles, competing exclusively in the federal grant space.

Cape Assist's grant portfolio centers on SAMHSA's prevention and mental health initiatives. As a prime recipient, the organization holds five active grants: a $250,000 SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Prevention grant (CFDA 93.492) awarded September 30, 2026, to implement the Cape May Prevention Partnership, a five-year Strategic Prevention Framework initiative addressing youth and emerging-adult alcohol, cannabis, and nicotine use across Cape May County's year-round population of 93,390 that expands to nearly 800,000 seasonally; a $125,000 CDC Drug-Free Communities Support Program grant (CFDA 93.276) awarded July 1, 2026, establishing the Rural Communities Youth Coalition to implement community-change strategies in rural northwestern Cape May County (ZIP 08270) targeting youth substance use through responsible beverage service training, youth engagement, retail education, and policy review; an Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention grant awarded October 1, 2024, to implement the Kinship Connection Project, which develops a client-management referral database and case-management process for children and youth in kinship families affected by opioid and substance misuse; and two SAMHSA mental health and alcohol-prevention grants completed or completing in 2026 that delivered Mental Health First Aid training (targeting 2,200 adults and youth in mental health awareness, de-escalation, and local resource navigation) and addressed underage alcohol use through adult accountability initiatives and evidence-based school programming.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward health and human services agencies. The top four funding agencies account for 92% of all awards, with the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration anchoring the portfolio (16 prime and 6 sub awards combined across SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and Center for Mental Health Services), the CDC (5 awards), and the Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (1 award). Sub-award work flows through the New Jersey Department of Human Services as prime grantee, covering substance abuse prevention and treatment block grants, state opioid response programming, recovery high school initiatives, strategic prevention frameworks, community peer recovery centers, and COVID-relief ARPA funding. The sub-award stream runs consistently: Cape Assist has received sub-awards in each year from 2022 through 2026, with themes including public education for older adults, opioid overdose prevention for young athletes, and recovery-focused community services.

Activity has remained steady across the past five years—four awards in 2022 to five in 2026—with only one award facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete pressure in the near term. Combined obligated dollars across all prime and sub awards total $11.9 million, with the recent SAMHSA Prevention Partnership grant representing the largest single award at $250,000. Cape Assist's federal footprint is narrowly specialized: the organization operates entirely within the prevention, treatment, and recovery services domain for substance abuse and youth mental health, with no presence in federal contracting and no competitive exposure to full-and-open or set-aside procurement vehicles.