Catholic Community Services Of Southern Arizona, Inc.

Catholic Community Services Of Southern Arizona, Inc., doing business as Adoption Donations, is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Tucson, Arizona that operates as a sub-recipient and prime recipient on federal grants spanning social services, refugee support, tax assistance, and facilities management, with most recent activity concentrated in refugee resettlement and homelessness-prevention grants. The organization receives the majority of its awards through sub-grant arrangements (60% of 271 awards) routed through state agencies and national nonprofits rather than as a direct prime contractor; across its federal footprint, Catholic Community Services competes entirely full-and-open with no set-aside designations.

The organization's federal grant portfolio centers on refugee and immigrant services, tax assistance, and homelessness support. It holds multiple active Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) grants from the Internal Revenue Service (CFDA 21.008) — a $194,867.83 project grant effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2028 providing direct IRS representation and tax education to low-income taxpayers and English-as-a-second-language speakers with incomes not exceeding 250 percent of federal poverty guidelines. Catholic Community Services also received a $366,358.88 project grant from the Department of Homeland Security's Citizenship and Immigration Services under the Citizenship Education and Training program (CFDA 97.010) for citizenship preparation instruction and naturalization exam preparation services, running October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2024. The organization serves as a sub-recipient under Catholic Charities USA, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the Arizona Department of Economic Security on refugee cash and medical assistance (CMA) reimbursement awards, refugee support services (RSS) grants, and emergency shelter and rapid rehousing programs. It also holds a prime contract as a single-award indefinite-delivery contract with GSA's Public Buildings Service for custodial services at the James A. Walsh U.S. Courthouse in Tucson, Arizona, with a ceiling of $1,679,369.90 running through December 31, 2026.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward refugee and immigrant support. The Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration leads the award-count ranking with 62 awards; the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families follows with 38 awards combined. By potential value, the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Region 9 anchors the top tier with six awards and $3.9 million combined potential value, driven primarily by the courthouse custodial contract. The Department of the Air Force Air Combat Command places ten awards valued at $1.1 million combined potential value. The top five customers account for 58 percent of award count but only a subset of potential value, indicating that the organization's grant work is high-volume, lower-dollar while its federal contracts tend toward larger single awards. Award activity has accelerated year over year, with 12 awards in 2022 climbing to 91 in 2024, though 2025 and 2026 year-to-date show fewer awards (36 and 2 respectively), suggesting a timing lag in data capture rather than declining trajectory.

The organization's sub-grant work routes primarily through Catholic Charities USA and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on refugee reception, placement, and preferred communities programs; through the Arizona Department of Economic Security on child welfare, family support, and refugee services; and through the Arizona Department of Housing on homelessness-prevention and continuum-of-care coordination in Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, and Santa Cruz counties. NAICS concentration reflects this portfolio: postal and translation services (14 and 13 awards respectively), religious organizations (13 awards), janitorial services (10 awards), and elderly and disability services (7 awards). Two small prime contracts round out the footprint: a $25,000 American Sign Language translation services purchase order from the Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 and an $800 delivery order for chaplaincy support at Federal Correctional Complex Tucson. Catholic Community Services competes on a handful of parent vehicles including a Veterans Affairs blanket purchase agreement and Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons IDCs, but the vast majority of federal funding flows through sub-grant arrangements from state and national nonprofit intermediaries.