Catholic Charities West Virginia, Inc.

Catholic Charities West Virginia, Inc., doing business as Catholic Community Services of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, operates as a tax-exempt nonprofit recipient of federal grants focused on homelessness prevention, housing, child nutrition, refugee and immigrant services, and trafficking victim assistance. The organization is a parent entity headquartered in Wheeling, West Virginia, with a subsidiary, the Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, Inc.

The organization's federal footprint is heavily weighted toward sub-recipient work: 77% of recent awards (167 of 217 total) are sub-awards routed through state and federal prime grantees, while 23% are direct prime grants. Activity has accelerated sharply — from four awards in 2022 to 72 in 2025 — though the combined potential value across all awards remains modest at $456 thousand against $15.6 million in obligated dollars, reflecting the recurring, multi-year nature of the grant work. Two awards face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months.

Customer concentration is dominated by the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, which accounts for 117 awards (54% of the portfolio). The Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration places 29 awards; the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Institution Morgantown places 16 awards valued at $159 thousand combined; and the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families accounts for 16 awards across two organizational units. Together these five customer points account for 82% of award volume.

The grant work clusters in two primary capability areas. As prime recipient, Catholic Charities West Virginia holds recurring Continuum of Care (CoC) awards from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development—awards dated August and September 2024, 2025, and 2026, each running twelve months and funding permanent supportive housing for persons with disabilities, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, and homelessness prevention across West Virginia. A Hospital Transition Program grant awarded July 2023 by the Administration on Aging (ultimate completion June 2025) supports transitions from institutional settings for older adults in Huntington. As sub-recipient, the organization receives awards through state prime grantees — primarily the West Virginia Department of Education for Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) meal reimbursement and day care home administrative reimbursement (awarded monthly in recurring tranches from 2022 forward); the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources for child care resource and referral services across multiple service delivery areas and for specialized social services to migrants and refugees; the West Virginia Department of Human Services for limited employment and training for SNAP recipients and SNAP application assistance; and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops for refugee reception and placement programs, the Alien Parents Assistance Program, and the Preferred Communities Program. Catholic Charities West Virginia also receives sub-awards from the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Inc., for trafficking victim assistance under the Office on Trafficking in Persons program funded by HHS.

Catholic Charities West Virginia does not hold federal contracts or participate in contract vehicles such as GWACs or IDIQs. The organization's federal engagement is entirely grant-based, anchored to state and national nonprofit prime grantees in the social services, child nutrition, refugee resettlement, and homeless services space.