Clear Path For Veterans New England Inc.

Clear Path For Veterans New England Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Devens, Massachusetts, delivers emergency housing, transitional shelter, case management, and service dog training to homeless and at-risk veterans across the New England region as a prime recipient of federal grants and as a prime contractor on a single purchase order from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The organization competes full-and-open without set-aside designations.

Clear Path's federal footprint centers on the VA's Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program (CFDA 64.033), where it holds multiple project grants as a prime recipient. The organization received $2 million SSVF project grants from the VHA Under Secretary for Health in October 2024 and October 2025 for outreach, case management, assistance obtaining VA and public benefits, and temporary financial assistance for housing-related expenses including rental assistance, utility payments, and security deposits to very low-income veteran families in Massachusetts. A prior SSVF award dated August 2023 carried the same $2 million value and scope. Beyond SSVF, Clear Path received a $387,868 project grant from the Department of Defense's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (CFDA 12.750) for its Devens Service Dog Program, running July 2022 through June 2023, providing service dogs and training to veterans. The VA also awarded Clear Path per diem funding in August 2021 for operational costs associated with transitional housing beds for homeless veterans. Clear Path's most recent award is a $2.81 million firm fixed-price purchase order from the VA's Veterans Integrated Service Network 1, effective April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2031, for emergency housing services in Central Massachusetts. The contract requires operation and maintenance of ten emergency residential beds in Ayer, Massachusetts with supportive services including case management, meals, transportation, and programming (12-step groups, computer classes, life skills training, vocational counseling), with a performance target of 55% or higher discharge rates to permanent housing and no more than 20% negative discharge rates.

Customer concentration is narrow and single-agency heavy. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration accounts for 100% of the combined potential value identified ($2.8 million on the current purchase order), with the DoD Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Department of Labor Veterans Employment and Training Service holding five and one awards respectively in the grant portfolio. Activity has averaged fewer than one award per year over the past five years, with one award completing within the next twenty-four months. Clear Path also subrecipients grant work for the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., executing service dog training and furnishing to eligible service members and veterans under a World Warrior Service Dog Program contract dated January 2025. The organization's federal work aligns directly with its mission to serve veterans experiencing homelessness or housing instability, with capability spanning emergency shelter operations, supportive housing case management, and specialized service dog training and pairing.