Catholic Relief Services - United States Conference Of Catholic Bishops

Catholic Relief Services - United States Conference Of Catholic Bishops (CRS-USCCB), a tax-exempt nonprofit headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, is a federal grant recipient that delivers international humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, food security, health, and development programming across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean as a prime recipient on USAID and State Department grants. The organization operates overwhelmingly as a grant prime (96% of awards) rather than a federal contractor, with a grant portfolio anchored to USAID humanitarian and development programs and the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.

CRS-USCCB's federal customer base is heavily concentrated in international development and humanitarian assistance. The top five funding sources account for 78% of awards: USAID dominates with 437 awards, followed by the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (126 awards), USAID's Bureau for Management (96 awards), USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (58 awards), and the Department of Agriculture's Food for Education program (33 awards). The organization's work spans emergency response, food assistance, water and sanitation, shelter, economic recovery, disaster risk reduction, and health interventions. Representative recent grants include a $5 million State Department project grant to strengthen health infrastructure for Ebola defense in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (awarded June 2026), a $27.2 million USDA Cooperative Agreement for school feeding and food security in Madagascar under the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education program (awarded September 2024), a $50 million CDC Cooperative Agreement for immunization and disease surveillance programming in Nigeria over five years (awarded September 2024), and a $2.2 million State Department grant for weapons removal and humanitarian demining in Vietnam (awarded October 2024). CRS-USCCB also executes large multi-year USAID resilience and food security activities, such as a $22.6 million Haiti Resilience and Food Security Cooperative Agreement (extended through September 2026) and a $27.7 million Guinea-Bissau school feeding and nutrition program under McGovern-Dole.

Activity has declined from 51 awards in 2022 to 10 in 2025 and 3 in 2026 (through mid-July), though the source captures only recent awards in the portfolio. Thirty-one awards are scheduled for completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete. Across Service Contract Inventory-reportable federal service contracts, CRS-USCCB engaged subcontractors on a small number of records (5 SCI-reported prime or sub positions, all in the subcontractor role, across FY2022–FY2024), with workforce scale of 7.5 FTEs in FY2022 and 13.8 FTEs in FY2024. This SCI footprint is minimal and does not reflect the organization's grant-based delivery model, where subgrantees rather than federal service contract subcontractors are the standard implementation mechanism.

CRS-USCCB routinely engages subgrantees across its portfolio to implement field activities. Named grant sub-recipients include Caritas organizations (Bulawayo, Congo, Development-Niger, El Salvador, Guinea Bissau, Philippines), World Vision, the United Nations World Food Programme, Education Development Center, Save the Children, University of Notre Dame, University of Georgia Research Foundation, and local diocesan and faith-based organizations in implementation regions. The organization's grant work emphasizes partnership with local and international nongovernmental organizations to ensure community-based implementation and localized expertise in conflict-affected and crisis-prone regions. Federal contract awards are minimal in the portfolio (fewer than 1% of total awards), with one listed Water and Development II IDIQ task order, reflecting the organization's orientation toward philanthropic and grant-funded development work rather than federal procurement.