Comite De Bien Estar, Inc.

Comite De Bien Estar, Inc., a nonprofit community development corporation headquartered in San Luis, Arizona, operates as a prime recipient and sub-recipient of federal grants focused on affordable housing development, housing counseling, and community economic development for low- and moderate-income rural populations, with a secondary footprint in public health and nutrition programs.

Comite De Bien Estar is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization and community development corporation that delivers housing development and counseling services, homebuyer education, financial assistance, and community revitalization programming. The vendor operates with a subsidiary, Border Financial Resources, Inc., also structured as a nonprofit community development corporation. Across recent awards, Comite De Bien Estar holds 63% of its federal footprint as prime recipient work and 37% as sub-recipient activity, indicating dual capacity to anchor grants and partner on larger federal funding flows.

The award portfolio centers on two housing-focused federal grant programs and one public health subaward stream. As prime recipient, Comite De Bien Estar received a $1.9 million Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service under the Rural Self-Help Housing Technical Assistance program (CFDA 10.420) awarded August 22, 2024, with completion targeted October 22, 2025; that award supports construction expertise, homebuyer education, financial counseling, and community outreach to enable low- and very low-income individuals and families to build homes using the self-help method in rural areas. The vendor also holds two Department of the Treasury Community Development Financial Institutions Fund grants (awarded June 22, 2022 and October 4, 2023) supporting affordable housing acquisition, development, rehabilitation, and preservation targeting low-, very low-, and extremely low-income populations. As a sub-recipient, Comite De Bien Estar has received funding from the Arizona Department of Education (Child and Adult Care Food Program administration and related block grants, July 2024 and July 2025), UnidosUS (vaccination education and community health outreach, March 2024 and February 2025), the Rural Community Assistance Corporation (housing counseling grant support, January 2025), and a capacity-building subaward supporting affordable housing predevelopment work in Somerton, Arizona through a LISC-administered grant (November 2024).

Customer concentration sits heavily with USDA Rural Housing Service and its Single Family Housing Program component, accounting for 5 and 3 awards respectively from the top five customer agencies, alongside the Department of the Treasury Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (2 awards), the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (2 awards), and the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2 awards) — collectively representing 74% of the award count. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $18.7 million. One award reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting limited near-term recompete exposure. The vendor's federal footprint spans nineteen awards since 2003, with 2024 and 2025 averaging four awards per year, indicating sustained engagement with rural housing and community development programming.