Church World Service, Inc.

Church World Service, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in New York, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering refugee resettlement, humanitarian assistance, case management, and protection services to vulnerable populations including refugees, unaccompanied alien children, asylum seekers, and human trafficking survivors. The organization acts predominantly as a prime recipient on federal grants (65% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient through state and nonprofit prime grantees (35% of awards); it does not hold federal prime contracts, though it subcontracts on legal services work routed through Acacia Center for Justice.

Customer concentration sits heavily with domestic refugee and humanitarian resettlement agencies. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families dominates by award count at 112 awards, followed by the Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration at 101 awards, representing 91% of recent awards combined. These two agencies anchor the organization's federal footprint through formula grants, cooperative agreements, and project grants supporting refugee cash assistance, medical assistance (CMA), refugee support services (RSS), case management, and trauma-informed mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programming. The Department of Homeland Security's Chief Procurement Officer ranks first by combined potential value at $31.1 million across six awards, though the specific contracting mechanism and scope differ from HHS and State grant work. USCIS, USAID, and the Department of Justice complete the active agency set.

Church World Service holds 182 prime grant awards worth combined potential value of $32.6 million. Representative work includes a $6.48 million Formula Grant from the Office of Refugee Resettlement under CFDA 93.566 (Refugee and Entrant Assistance State/Replacement Designee Administered Programs), awarded October 1, 2025 and running through May 28, 2027, supporting Refugee Cash and Medical Assistance and Refugee Support Services for up to five years post-arrival, with sub-awards to Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska in Lincoln and Council Bluffs, Iowa; a $15 million Project Grant from FEMA under CFDA 97.102 (Case Management Pilot Program), awarded November 20, 2024 and running through November 19, 2027, providing case management to non-detained noncitizens in immigration removal proceedings or ICE Alternatives to Detention programs with mental health support, human trafficking screening, and legal orientation; and a $42.7 million Cooperative Agreement from the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration to provide regional refugee processing services in Africa, awarded October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2026. Additional work includes two separate $1 million Cooperative Agreements from State's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration under CFDA 19.510 (U.S. Refugee Admissions Program) to expand community sponsorship capacity and increase housing access, both running through September 30, 2025. ORR has also funded trauma-focused interventions including the Support for Trauma-Affected Refugees (STAR) program in Houston and South Carolina, the Refugee Career Pathways program in Greensboro, North Carolina, home study and post-release services for unaccompanied children (serving over 25,000 annually), and the Preferred Communities program providing intensive case management to refugees with special vulnerabilities.

As a subcontractor, Church World Service delivers legal services work to Acacia Center for Justice (unaccompanied alien children legal services bridge agreements, May–September 2025) and receives sub-grants from the International Rescue Committee (refugee cash assistance and support services in Jersey City, New Jersey, with multiple awards through February 2026), Virginia Department of Social Services (refugee cash assistance, support services, and specialized programs for Afghan and Ukrainian populations, with 18 sub-awards in September 2025 alone), Colorado Department of Human Services (refugee services and TANF administration), Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (refugee social services with set-asides for youth mentoring and elderly services), Community Sponsorship Hub Inc. (private sponsorship training and support), and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (community sponsorship programming). This sub-recipient footprint reflects Church World Service's role as a delivery partner within state-administered and nonprofit-managed refugee programs.

Award activity has grown from 16 awards in 2022 to a peak of 38 in 2024, with 29 awards in 2025; the source shows only two awards dated into 2026, suggesting incomplete year-end data. Fifteen awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete opportunity for the organization's renewal pipeline. One Indefinite Delivery Contract (HSCEDM10D00005) generated four task orders worth $7.5 million combined potential value. Service Contract Inventory reporting captures minimal activity — one sub-contractor record in FY2024 representing 54.5 FTEs — reflecting the grant-dominant nature of Church World Service's federal footprint; SCI data do not reflect the full scope of the organization's refugee services delivery, which operates outside the service contract threshold.

The organization's federal mission aligns with humanitarian and resettlement policy across State Department, HHS, DHS, and USAID priorities. Church World Service leverages faith-based networks and community partnerships to deliver evidence-based, trauma-informed services designed to facilitate rapid self-sufficiency and integration of displaced and vulnerable populations, with operations spanning domestic service sites (New York, Virginia, Colorado, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina, California, and others) and overseas processing and humanitarian work in Africa, Egypt, Indonesia, and South Africa.