Catholic Charities Of Southwest Kansas, Inc.

Catholic Charities Of Southwest Kansas, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Dodge City, Kansas, operates as a grant recipient and sub-recipient delivering homeless intervention, housing support, refugee resettlement, and citizenship education services to federal agencies. The organization acts primarily as a sub-recipient (88% of recent awards) under federal grant programs rather than as a direct prime recipient, with activity concentrated in HUD Continuum of Care housing programs, State Department refugee resettlement initiatives, and Department of Health and Human Services immigrant and refugee services.

The organization's federal footprint has grown sharply in recent years. Activity stood at one award annually in 2021 and 2022, then accelerated to eleven awards in 2023, seventy-six in 2024, and thirty-two through mid-2025. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $16.4 million. The customer concentration is highly concentrated: the Department of State's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (66 awards), the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (41 awards), and HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (14 awards) account for 95% of recent award volume. The State Department and HHS are anchors for refugee and immigrant services sub-work; HUD drives homelessness-intervention work.

Catholic Charities holds two direct prime grant awards from HUD under the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267): a $443,317 grant awarded December 1, 2024, through November 30, 2025, and a $476,635 grant awarded December 1, 2025, through November 30, 2026. Both fund permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, and supportive services for homeless individuals and families across southwest Kansas. The organization also received a $282,119 project grant from the Department of Homeland Security Citizenship and Immigration Services under the Citizenship Education and Training program (CFDA 97.010) for October 1, 2023, through September 30, 2025, supporting citizenship instruction, naturalization application assistance, English language classes, and integration services for immigrants and refugees.

The preponderance of Catholic Charities' federal work flows through sub-recipient relationships. The organization sub-receives from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on multiple refugee resettlement and placement programs, appearing on flows tied to Reception and Placement, Resettlement and Placement, Preferred Communities, and Alternative Processing Arrangement (APA) initiatives. Catholic Charities also sub-receives from the International Rescue Committee on refugee cash and medical assistance and refugee support services for Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)-eligible populations in Dodge City and surrounding counties. Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service routes Safe Release Support Services and other ORR work through Catholic Charities as a sub-recipient. Additional sub-recipient work includes Emergency Solutions Grant rapid rehousing and homeless prevention services in southeast Kansas counties, tenant-based rental assistance, food assistance outreach coordination with the Kansas Department for Children and Families, and trafficking victim assistance case management through the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants.

The organization's recent sub-award activity is intensive and recurring: dozens of monthly sub-awards flow from State Department-funded refugee programs, HHS programs, and HUD homeless-intervention vehicles, with award dates concentrated at month-end intervals throughout 2024 and 2025. Only one award carries an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months, indicating stable baseline sub-work with minimal recompete exposure in the near term. Catholic Charities operates within a narrowly defined geographic footprint—southwest Kansas, with concentration in Dodge City—and serves vulnerable populations (homeless individuals and families, refugees, immigrants, trafficking victims, and low-income households) through coordinated nonprofit service delivery aligned with federal homelessness and refugee resettlement policy goals.