County Of San Mateo Human Services

County Of San Mateo Human Services, a U.S. local government entity (county) headquartered in Redwood City, California, receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient (23% of recent awards) and predominantly as a sub-recipient (77%) under pass-through grants administered by the State of California Department of Social Services. The county operates across homelessness intervention, child welfare, family preservation, food assistance, and workforce development programs funded by HUD, USDA, and HHS.

The county's federal footprint concentrates in three agencies accounting for 100% of recent awards. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (HHS/ACF) leads across 19 awards, anchoring the county's child welfare work — foster care assistance, adoption support, family preservation and reunification services (Promoting Safe and Stable Families, or PSSF), and post-foster-youth transition support. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (USDA/FNS) provides eight awards for CalFresh Employment and Training (E&T) programs and SNAP/food assistance administration. The Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (HUD/CPD) funds eight Continuum of Care (CoC) Program awards for homelessness intervention. Representative prime work includes a $708,239 CoC Project Grant (July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026) supporting permanent supportive housing acquisition, rehabilitation, and new construction for persons with disabilities, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, and supportive services delivery; and a $694,073 CoC Project Grant (July 8, 2025) with similar scope. Additional prime CoC awards dated December 1, 2024 and October 1, 2023 (ultimate completion September 30, 2026) extend the county's housing intervention pipeline. As a sub-recipient, the county administers CalFresh E&T, TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), SNAP outreach, foster care assistance, Adoption Assistance, Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), guardianship assistance, and family support services under pass-through agreements with California's Department of Social Services, with sub-awards flowing continuously from January 2024 through February 2026.

Award volume accelerated sharply in 2024 (18 awards) from four in 2023, then moderated to ten in 2025 and three through mid-2026. Only three awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating a stable recompete footprint. The county's grant work flows through federal programs—HUD's CoC (CFDA 14.267), USDA's FNS food and nutrition programs, and HHS/ACF's child welfare suite (TANF, foster care, adoption assistance, PSSF, CCDF, and post-foster-youth services)—delivering direct social services to vulnerable populations at the county level. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $143.7 million, with the sub-recipient work representing the majority of transactional volume under state-supervised, county-administered delivery models.