County Of Bergen 1

County of Bergen 1, doing business as Administration, is a U.S. local government entity (Bergen County, New Jersey) that acts as a prime recipient of federal grants for homelessness services, housing assistance, and victim support programs, with secondary exposure through sub-recipient roles on state-administered federal grant programs. The entity operates from Hackensack, New Jersey and is a division of the parent County of Bergen.

County of Bergen 1's grant work is heavily concentrated in homelessness and housing services under the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267). The entity has received recurring annual COC awards since at least 2022, including a $108,900 COC grant awarded May 1, 2026 (performance through April 30, 2027) and a $100,693 COC award in the prior fiscal year (May 1, 2024 through April 30, 2025). These grants fund permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, homeless management information systems, and COC planning activities for homeless individuals and families in Bergen County. The entity also received a project grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs VHA Under Secretary for Health on August 28, 2023 (through September 30, 2025) to support operational costs for transitional housing beds serving homeless veterans.

Customer concentration across the grant footprint is extreme. HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development accounts for 34 of 65 total awards (52% of all awards); the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime, and the Department of Veterans Affairs each represent 3 to 7 awards. Combined, these five agencies account for 80 percent of the award count. County of Bergen 1 acts as a prime recipient on HUD COC grants and VA transitional housing grants, while functioning as a sub-recipient on federal grant flows from the New Jersey Department of Human Services (TANF, child care assistance, short-term housing assistance, transportation), the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety (Victims of Crime Act and STOP Violence Against Women Act allocations), the New Jersey Department of Agriculture (school nutrition programs), and the Executive Office of the State of New Jersey (domestic violence services). The sub-recipient role is the primary mechanism through which Bergen County accesses federal transportation, income support, and human services funding administered through New Jersey state agencies.

Activity shows growth in the past two years—three awards in 2023, four in 2024, five in 2025, and twelve in 2026—with only two awards facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Total dollars obligated across all sixty-five awards in the source data is $18.5 million. The entity's federal grant portfolio serves fourteen distinct federal agencies, though the operational footprint is tightly anchored to HUD's homelessness prevention mission and state pass-through allocations for safety-net social services.