City Of Fall River

City Of Fall River, a U.S. local government entity headquartered in Fall River, Massachusetts, receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient (88% of recent awards) across housing, workforce development, environmental infrastructure, and public health programs, with no federal contract prime or subcontract footprint.

City Of Fall River's award portfolio centers on HUD Community Planning and Development programs that dominate both volume and dollars. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development accounts for 206 of 237 awards in the active customer set — 94% of all tracked prime and sub work across 252 total awards since 2002. Within that HUD concentration, the city is a prime recipient on the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267), which funds permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, and homeless management information systems. Recent named CoC awards include a $280,580 project grant (April 2026, completion March 2027) supporting community-wide homelessness efforts through partnerships with Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fall River and Steppingstone Inc.; a $716,488 project grant (September 2025, completion August 2026) funding the Cornerstone Program, a scattered-site permanent supportive housing initiative serving 32 households (25 units) of chronically homeless individuals and families; a $136,746 project grant (December 2025, completion November 2026) supporting the Francis House program for eight chronically homeless youth ages 18 to 24 with disabilities; and a $104,637 project grant (September 2025, completion August 2026) operating the Coordinated Entry System (CES), a centralized assessment and referral service now in its tenth year serving chronic homeless populations, veterans, youth, and families. The city also holds formula grant awards under the HOME Investment Partnerships Program (CFDA 14.239) for affordable housing rehabilitation and rental assistance (most recent: $1,165,526, September 2025, completion September 2034), Emergency Solutions Grants (CFDA 14.231) for street outreach and emergency shelter operations ($227,105, September 2025, completion September 2027), and Community Development Block Grants (CFDA 14.218) for broad community development activities across multiple award periods.

Beyond HUD, City Of Fall River receives workforce development sub-awards from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Adult, Youth, and Dislocated Workers programs; Wagner-Peyser Employment Services; and Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment (RESEA). The city also holds environmental infrastructure grants: a $10 million project grant from EPA Region 1's Reducing Lead in Drinking Water program (CFDA 66.443, June 2023, completion December 2026) to replace approximately 1,211 lead service lines benefiting an estimated 3,900 residents, and a prior American Rescue Plan project for lead service line inventory development ($300,000 range, October 2022, completion November 2024). Public health sub-awards from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health support COVID-19 case investigation and contact tracing. The city also received a $550,000 project grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance's Criminal and Juvenile Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program (CFDA 16.745, October 2024, completion September 2027) to establish law enforcement-mental health clinician co-response teams and training infrastructure for first responders. Economic development support includes a $1.32 million Economic Adjustment Assistance award from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (CFDA 11.307, July 2021) for Phase I engineering and permitting of sewer infrastructure upgrades supporting three industrial parks in advanced manufacturing, life sciences, and technology.

Award activity has grown modestly — from 13 awards in 2022 to 20 in 2024 and 21 in 2025 — with combined dollars obligated across all 252 awards totaling $156 million. Six awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing the city to annual HUD CoC recompete cycles and associated reapplication activity under those program structures. The city operates through municipal and school district divisions as named in the corporate structure but does not hold federal contracts or serve as a federal contract subcontractor; its entire federal footprint is grant-based and recipient-focused.