Community Action Partnership Of Western Nebraska

Community Action Partnership Of Western Nebraska, a non-profit tax-exempt entity headquartered in Gering, Nebraska, operates as a federal grant recipient (70% of recent awards) and sub-recipient, delivering housing assistance, youth services, health care, and community action programs across western Nebraska with funding from HUD, USDA, HHS, and state pass-through grantors.

CAPWN's primary federal footprint is in homelessness assistance and housing programs under the HUD Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267), which dominates its award count at 50 recent awards and represents the organization's core capacity. The organization acts as prime recipient on these CoC grants, which fund permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, homeless management information systems, and homelessness prevention services in Gering and surrounding areas. Representative examples include a $1.36 million Continuum of Care grant awarded February 2024 with completion in January 2027, funding rapid rehousing and case management for homeless individuals; two awards totaling roughly $380,000 in combined value made November 2025 supporting youth homelessness demonstration programs (YHDP); and a $152,647 CoC award for November 2024 through October 2025. CAPWN also receives prime grants from HHS for Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (awarded March 2024, completing February 2029), the Ryan White Part C Outpatient Early Intervention Services program (CFDA not specified, awarded November 2023), and the Basic Center Program for runaway and homeless youth (awarded September 2023, completing September 2026). HHS funding also includes health center infrastructure support and COVID-19 vaccination expansion awards from the Bureau of Primary Health Care.

The organization acts as sub-recipient on a substantial number of federal grants flowing through the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services and the Nebraska Department of Education, receiving sub-awards for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutrition services, Community Services Block Grant administration, sexual risk avoidance education, HIV prevention programs, vaccine outreach, and emergency preparedness activities under CDC cooperative agreements. CAPWN also receives sub-awards from the Family Planning Council of Nebraska for family planning and reproductive health service delivery.

Customer concentration by award count centers on HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (50 awards), followed by USDA Forest Service Job Corps (14 awards, $577 thousand combined potential value), HHS Administration for Children and Families (12 awards), USDA Food and Nutrition Service (10 awards), and HHS Health Resources and Services Administration (8 awards). These five grantors account for 59% of all recent awards. CAPWN's work under parent BPAs with USDA is minimal, with only 8 total task orders across four blanket purchase agreements carrying combined potential value of roughly $47 thousand.

Recent activity has accelerated: four awards in 2022 and 2023 grew to 30 awards in 2024, then 17 in 2025 and 8 in the first half of 2026. Six awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete risk for the organization. The combined potential value across all 159 awards (prime and sub combined) is $577 thousand, but obligated dollars total $142.2 million, indicating that the majority of CAPWN's federal funding comes through sub-recipient arrangements where the federal dollar amount is recorded but the potential-value placeholder reflects modest annual task-order ceilings rather than the full grant award scale.