Catholic Charities Archdiocese Of New Orleans

Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans, a tax-exempt nonprofit based in New Orleans, Louisiana, operates as a federal grant recipient and subcontractor delivering social services, immigration support, and community assistance across multiple federal funding streams, with 61% of its recent awards in a subcontractor or sub-recipient role to state agencies and national faith-based networks.

The organization's portfolio spans homelessness prevention, housing, and supportive services under the Department of Housing and Urban Development Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267); early childhood education through the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Head Start; citizenship instruction and immigrant integration through the Department of Homeland Security Citizenship Education and Training program (CFDA 97.010); child nutrition programs through the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service; and legal services for vulnerable populations including unaccompanied immigrant children and domestic violence survivors. Representative prime grants include a $256,375 HUD Continuum of Care award (June 2026, performance through May 2027) for permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, and transitional housing in New Orleans; a Head Start program grant from HHS (January 2025 through December 2030) supporting early education delivery; and a $300,000 DHS Citizenship Education and Training grant (October 2023 through September 2025) for naturalization services and civics instruction. The organization also received a federal grant for a Family Group Program from the Office of Grants Management (September 2025, extending through June 2028) with a 10% statutory and budgetary match requirement.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward humanitarian and social-service funders. The top five funding agencies account for 79% of awards by count: the Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (46 awards), HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (42 awards), the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (41 awards), the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (19 awards), and DHS US Citizenship and Immigration Services (6 awards). Despite high award volume, combined potential value across all 195 awards is minimal at $103,000, reflecting the nature of the portfolio as primarily sub-awards and flow-through grants rather than large procurement contracts. Obligated dollars of $235 million far exceed potential value, indicating the organization is spending down existing awards rather than building new high-dollar pipeline.

The organization primarily operates as a subcontractor and sub-recipient. Across SCI-reportable service contracts in FY2024–FY2025, Catholic Charities appears as a named subcontractor on 3 records (zero as prime), with 44.7 FTEs delivered in FY2024 and 13.8 FTEs in FY2025 — a substantial drop suggesting completion or wind-down of specific sub-engagements. On the grant sub-award side, the organization subcontracts extensively to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on resettlement and placement programs, reception and placement (R&P) programs, and preferred communities initiatives; to Louisiana's Department of Administration on food and nutrition programs for children (monthly sub-awards from 2023 through 2026); and to Acacia Center for Justice on legal services for unaccompanied alien children under the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Refugee Resettlement. The organization also receives sub-awards from the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice for Project SAVE, providing free legal services to domestic violence victims in Orleans Parish.

The portfolio shows volatile year-over-year activity: 2 awards in 2022, 11 in 2023, 65 in 2024 (a spike driven primarily by sub-award nominations under state and national channels), 37 in 2025, and 10 through July 2026. Only 2 awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure in the near term. The organization does not hold IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs; its federal footprint is entirely composed of direct grants and sub-awards routed through state departments and national charitable networks, with no presence on government-wide contracting vehicles. Top NAICS categories are translation and interpretation services (6 awards) and legal services (4 awards), reflecting the immigration and legal-advocacy dimensions of the work.