Catholic Charities Of The Diocese Of Rochester

Catholic Charities Of The Diocese Of Rochester, doing business as Catholic Charities Family & Community Services, is a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Rochester, New York, that acts as a prime recipient on federal grants for homelessness services, refugee resettlement, and immigration support, and receives the majority of its federal funding (82% of recent awards) through sub-awards from federal grant programs administered by larger grantees.

The organization delivers concrete social services across three primary domains: homelessness interventions funded under the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267), which supports permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, and homelessness prevention for Rochester-area individuals and families; refugee resettlement and reception services under Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration grant programs; and naturalization assistance and citizenship preparation under the Department of Homeland Security's Citizenship Education and Training program (CFDA 97.010). In the most recent twenty-two months, the organization has served as prime recipient on a $433,907 CoC Project Grant from HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (award date April 1, 2026, completion March 31, 2027), a $335,728 DHS Citizenship Education and Training grant for naturalization application assistance and citizenship instruction (October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2024), and a current $300,000 DHS grant for citizenship preparation services (November 22, 2024 through September 30, 2026). The organization also received annual CoC grants in 2022, 2023, and 2024.

Customer concentration is heavily concentrated in two federal grantors. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families accounts for 98 awards, and the Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration accounts for 89 awards, together representing 93% of the organization's recent award volume. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development provides 32 awards, with DHS and HHS SAMHSA rounding out the active customer set. The vast majority of this activity flows through sub-awards: Catholic Charities receives $27.9 million in combined obligated dollars across 242 awards, but only 43 (18%) are prime awards, while 199 (82%) are sub-awards. The largest prime grantee relationships are with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which has flowed sub-awards to Catholic Charities for refugee resettlement programs, reception and placement services, safe passages foster care services, and voluntary agencies matching grant programs, and with the City of Rochester, which has issued sub-awards for housing opportunities for persons with AIDS.

The organization's federal footprint has grown sharply year over year, from two awards in 2022 to 133 in 2024, though activity contracted to 56 awards in 2025 and only two in 2026 to date. This volume reflects the seasonal and cyclical nature of refugee resettlement and CoC grant flows. Only one award carries an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months, reducing near-term recompete exposure.