Chelan-Douglas County Community Action Council

Chelan-Douglas County Community Action Council, doing business as Chelan Douglas Community Action Council, is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Wenatchee, Washington, that operates as a federal grant recipient delivering homelessness prevention, youth housing, energy assistance, food security, and volunteer service programs across rural Chelan, Douglas, Grant, and Okanogan Counties. The organization acts as a prime recipient on four federal grants and as a sub-recipient on twenty-nine federal sub-awards, concentrated in the Department of Health and Human Services, the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Energy.

The organization's prime grant portfolio centers on youth homelessness prevention and intervention. HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development awarded $121,372 under the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267) effective November 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for October 31, 2026, to operate the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) serving households where no person exceeds age 24 across five program components: permanent housing and rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS), and homelessness prevention. A prior YHDP grant from HUD, awarded November 1, 2023, ran through October 31, 2025. The organization also holds a Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) grant from the Office of Grants Management (Corporation for National and Community Service) with service dates April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2026, and received a congressionally directed project grant from the Department of Energy's Rural Utilities Service (April 24, 2023, through April 24, 2025).

Sub-award work spans energy assistance, food distribution, and AmeriCorps service delivery. Washington State Department of Commerce passed through multiple sub-awards for weatherization services (CFDA 81.042 and related Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding) and Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) services, with sub-awards dated as recently as April 23, 2026. The State of Washington Department of Agriculture distributed sub-awards for The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) food procurement and distribution to low-income households, and for local food system strengthening targeting socially disadvantaged producers. Washington State Office of Financial Management sub-awarded AmeriCorps funding (CFDA 94.006) in two cycles — August 1, 2023 (25 AmeriCorps members, $540,000 federal investment) and August 26, 2025 (20 AmeriCorps members, $499,000 federal investment) — to support academic tutoring, health education, literacy, and food security work across the region. A single sub-award dated August 19, 2021 (prime grantor not specified) supported street outreach, shelter, and utility and rent assistance for persons experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness.

The organization has received forty total awards since 2012. Activity has accelerated in recent years, with one award in 2022, seven in 2023, eleven in 2024, eight in 2025, and five in 2026 to date. The top three customer agencies by award count — the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (10 awards), the Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management (6 awards), and the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (4 awards) — account for 70% of recent award volume. One award completes within the next twenty-four months. The combined potential value reported across all awards is $19 thousand, though obligated dollars total $12.6 million, indicating that the vast majority of the organization's federal funding flow is delivered through pass-through mechanisms and does not register as direct potential contract value in this dataset.