Community Action Services And Food Bank, Inc.

Community Action Services And Food Bank, Inc., doing business as Community Action Services, is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Provo, Utah, that operates as a federal grant recipient (89% of recent awards as prime recipient) focused on homelessness prevention, housing counseling, food security, and anti-poverty services across Utah. The organization does not hold federal contracts; its federal footprint consists entirely of HUD grants, HHS block grants, and AmeriCorps funding.

Community Action Services' federal work concentrates almost entirely within the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The top customer agencies account for 98% of recent awards: HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development leads with 35 awards under the Continuum of Care (COC) Program, which funds permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, and HMIS systems serving homeless individuals and families. HUD's Assistant Secretary for Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner placed 20 awards under the Comprehensive Housing Counseling (CHC) grant program, where Community Action Services provides pre-purchase counseling, mortgage delinquency prevention, foreclosure assistance, and housing education to consumers and households at risk of homelessness. The Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management and the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families each account for 3 awards, with HHS supporting the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) anti-poverty initiatives and CNCS funding AmeriCorps member deployment to rural Utah food pantries across Cache, Box Elder, Weber, Davis, Summit, Wasatch, Utah, Juab, Millard, Carbon, Sanpete, and Emery counties.

Community Action Services acts as prime recipient on the vast majority of its federal grants and as sub-recipient on a smaller portfolio (11% of recent awards) of CSBG and TANF family housing and workforce-development subawards flowing through the Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development, the Utah Commission on Service and Volunteerism, and the Utah Department of Workforce Services. Recent representative grants include multiple COC project grants awarded September 2025 and September 2026 for homelessness prevention and rapid rehousing, a Comprehensive Housing Counseling grant awarded October 2024 running through September 2025, and a Community Services Block Grant sub-award from the Governor's Office of Economic Development in May 2026. Over the past five years, the organization has maintained steady award volume of 2–5 grants annually, with combined dollars obligated across all 64 awards (prime and sub, dating to 2006) totaling $5.5 million. One award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete pressure in the near term.