Cass Community Social Services, Inc.

Cass Community Social Services, Inc., a Detroit-based tax-exempt nonprofit, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, emergency shelter services, and case management to homeless and housing-insecure populations across the Detroit metropolitan area. The organization acts primarily as a direct recipient of federal grants (76% of recent awards) with supplementary work as a sub-recipient on city and state pass-throughs (24%).

The vast majority of Cass Community Social Services' federal footprint sits with the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, which accounts for 72 of the 78 prime grant awards in recent years. These are predominantly project grants under the Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267), a homelessness intervention and housing stability initiative. Representative recent awards include a $641,532 CoC project grant (October 2025–September 2026), a $519,973 CoC project grant (September 2025–August 2026), and a $291,746 CoC project grant (November 2025–October 2026). Cass also holds a $1.4 million Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) formula grant from HUD (October 2024–October 2027) supporting permanent supportive housing and wraparound services for 14 households of chronically homeless individuals living with HIV/AIDS and co-occurring mental illness or disabilities. Beyond HUD, Cass received a cooperative agreement from EPA Region 5 to remediate one brownfield site in Detroit under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, with activities running through September 2027.

On the sub-recipient side, Cass Community Social Services receives pass-through funding from the City of Detroit for street outreach, emergency family shelter, seasonal warming centers, drop-in shelter beds, food services to permanent supportive housing residents, and education services. Recent sub-award work includes emergency family shelter operations (January 2026), street outreach services (February 2026), and the provision of additional drop-in emergency shelter beds funded through Community Development Block Grant–Disaster Recovery mechanisms (November 2025). The organization also maintains limited prime work with the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 10, which carried five awards totaling $2.6 million in combined potential value across two parent vehicles: a Basic Ordering Agreement (VA251BO0026) and an Indefinite Delivery Contract (VA25113D0083).

Activity spiked sharply in 2024, with 22 awards that year, and has moderated to 10 awards in 2025 and 3 in 2026 to date. Five awards hold ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, representing a modest recompete cadence. Combined potential value across all 103 awards stands at $2.6 million; obligated dollars total $37.5 million, reflecting the distinction between potential contract ceilings and the actual funding flow on recurring, annual grant cycles typical of CoC and HOPWA programs. The organization serves three distinct customer agencies, with HUD's community development operations dominating the award count and capturing the full potential-value share on the VA and EPA awards.