Catholic Charities Of The Diocese Of ST. Cloud

Catholic Charities Of The Diocese Of ST. Cloud, operating as ST Elizabeth Home, is a Minnesota-based tax-exempt nonprofit organization that receives federal grants as a prime recipient to fund intergenerational volunteer service programs, housing counseling, and nutrition assistance initiatives. The organization does not compete for federal contracts and operates entirely within the federal grant ecosystem, with 75% of recent awards held as prime recipient grants and 25% as sub-recipient grants flowing through state and national Catholic Charities entities.

ST Elizabeth Home's primary federal footprint centers on three grant programs. The Corporation for National and Community Service funds the AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program (CFDA 94.011), for which the organization received a $891,651 project grant awarded July 1, 2026, with performance through June 30, 2029. This grant engages senior volunteers aged 55 and older to provide tutoring, mentoring, and educational support to children with special needs and academic disadvantages in Minnesota schools, Head Start programs, and childcare centers, with volunteers committing an average of twenty hours per week and the grantee maintaining a 10 percent statutory match and 10.06 percent budgetary match. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Comprehensive Housing Counseling program accounts for the majority of awards in the recent portfolio — 17 awards covering counseling on home buying, mortgage delinquency resolution, foreclosure assistance, and housing navigation for households at risk of homelessness, with the most recent award dated October 1, 2024, completing September 30, 2026. The Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service delivers eight awards for SNAP administration, which ST Elizabeth Home executes as a sub-recipient under prime grants from the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families and the Minnesota Department of Human Services; the organization also received a one-time distribution sub-award from Catholic Charities USA in November 2022 for meatpacking and farm worker assistance.

Customer concentration is narrow and stable. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Housing Federal Housing Commissioner dominates the top-customers-by-award-count ranking with 17 awards (93% coverage threshold), followed by the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (8 awards), and the Corporation for National and Community Service's Office of Grants Management (7 awards). The organization serves seven distinct federal customer agencies and has obligated $22.5 million across forty total awards since 2005. Activity has remained flat to modest over the past five years — two awards in 2021 through three awards in 2022, 2023, and 2024, with one award in 2026 — and only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating a stable, non-cliff recompete profile.