City Of Topeka

City of Topeka Financial Services Division is a municipal government entity located in Topeka, Kansas, serving as the primary administrator of federal grant awards for the city. As a U.S. local government entity registered with SAM.gov since July 2004, the City of Topeka has established itself as a significant recipient of federal grant funding, primarily through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and other federal agencies. The city's Financial Services Division oversees a comprehensive portfolio of federal grants designed to address critical community development needs, including affordable housing expansion, homelessness prevention and intervention, environmental remediation, public safety enhancements, and victim support services. Through these federal grant partnerships, the City of Topeka executes programs that improve residents' quality of life and address urban challenges across multiple community development sectors.

The City of Topeka has demonstrated substantial experience managing diverse federal grant programs across housing, homelessness, environmental, and public safety domains. In the housing sector, the city has received multiple awards under HUD's HOME Investment Partnerships Program (totaling over $486,000 in recent awards) to finance affordable housing activities including owner-occupied housing rehabilitation, homebuyer assistance, and rental housing acquisition and construction. For homelessness mitigation, the city has been a consistent recipient of HUD's Continuum of Care Program grants (totaling approximately $1.46 million in 2025-2026 funding alone) and Emergency Solutions Grants (over $158,000 in recent awards), supporting permanent housing, transitional housing, rapid re-housing assistance, street outreach, emergency shelter operations, and Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) activities. The city also received a substantial $4 million Lead Hazard Reduction grant from HUD's Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control to identify and control lead-based paint hazards in pre-1960 housing units occupied by low-income families. Environmental remediation efforts are supported through a $500,000 EPA Brownfields Multipurpose, Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup Cooperative Agreement to conduct environmental site assessments and cleanup planning for up to 12 brownfield sites across Topeka. Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) from HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development have provided ongoing formula grant funding for broad community development activities benefiting low- and moderate-income persons. Public safety and criminal justice initiatives are funded through multiple grants, including a $488,045 Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women grant for improving criminal justice responses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking (in partnership with the YWCA of Northeast Kansas); Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program awards for equipment and technology including license plate readers and digital radios; and a COPS Office Technology and Equipment Program grant for law enforcement technology. Additionally, the city received an $188,361 Assistance to Firefighters Grant from FEMA to enhance public and firefighter safety. The City of Topeka has also been a sub-grant recipient through Kansas Department of Transportation for Special Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) funding, metro planning grants, and shared-use path projects, as well as sub-grants from the Kansas Executive Office for crime victim advocacy services and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment for climate pollution reduction planning. This diverse portfolio demonstrates the city's capacity to execute complex federal grant programs addressing housing affordability, homelessness, environmental health, public safety, and community development priorities.