Catholic Charities Of The Diocese Of Palm Beach Inc.

Catholic Charities Of The Diocese Of Palm Beach Inc., doing business as Diocese Of Palm Beach, operates as a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Riviera Beach, Florida, receiving federal grant funding as a prime recipient and sub-recipient to deliver victim services, housing, and case management programs. The organization operates predominantly as a sub-recipient (87% of recent awards), with 59 of 68 awards across the past five years flowing through sub-grant arrangements with larger federal grantees; prime grant awards account for 13% of the portfolio and center on victim assistance and human trafficking services administered by the Department of Justice.

The core capability portfolio centers on comprehensive case management and support services for vulnerable populations, particularly crime victims and human trafficking survivors. Diocese Of Palm Beach delivers intensive case management and psychosocial assessments to elderly crime victims aged 55 and older across Palm Beach County through a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime (CFDA 16.582), awarded October 1, 2025, running through September 30, 2028. The organization also serves as a lead victim service provider in a cooperative agreement with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, receiving $750,000 from the Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime under an Expansion of Local Human Trafficking Task Forces award dated October 1, 2023, through September 30, 2026. A second human trafficking grant, awarded October 1, 2024, and running through September 30, 2027, funds short-term and transitional housing plus support services including job development, mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment, transportation, and legal services across Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River, and Okeechobee counties in Florida.

Customer concentration is acute and skewed toward a single federal agency. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families accounts for 59 of 68 total awards (87% of the portfolio by count), though the dollar distribution reflects smaller sub-grant pass-throughs. The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime supplied 5 awards, and the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division supplied 3 awards, for a combined 8 awards; the Corporation for National and Community Service supplied 1 award. The 59 sub-awards flowing through HHS ACF derive from the United States Conference Of Catholic Bishops as prime grantee, with Diocese Of Palm Beach receiving monthly or quarterly sub-grant allocations across programs including the Preferred Communities Program, FY23 and FY24 Match Grant Programs, and the FY2022 Voluntary Agencies Matching Grant Program. Additional sub-recipient work flows from the U.S. Committee For Refugees And Immigrants, Inc., which administers the Trafficking Victim Assistance Program (TVAP) and Child Trafficking Victim Assistance Program on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services Office on Trafficking in Persons; Diocese Of Palm Beach provided case management services to qualifying adult and minor victims of trafficking under sub-awards dated October 1 and September 30, 2022.

Activity spiked in 2024 (41 awards, chiefly monthly HHS ACF sub-grant allocations) from a baseline of 1 to 4 awards per year in 2021–2023, with 13 awards recorded in 2025. Combined dollars obligated across all 68 awards total $5.2 million. Two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (the Palm Beach County Human Trafficking Task Force cooperative agreement ending September 30, 2026, and a human trafficking housing grant ending September 30, 2027), creating potential recompete or renewal opportunity in that window.