El Paso Center For Children Inc.

El Paso Center For Children Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in El Paso, Texas, operates as a prime recipient and sub-recipient of federal grants addressing homelessness, youth shelter services, and family support programs for vulnerable populations including runaway and homeless youth, children exposed to violence, and families experiencing housing instability. The organization does not hold federal contracts; its federal footprint is exclusively grant-based, with 31 prime grants (46% of awards) and 37 grant sub-awards (54%), reflecting a split posture between direct federal relationships and pass-through funding from state intermediaries.

El Paso Center For Children Inc.'s federal grant portfolio centers on two primary funding streams. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families anchors the largest share at 20 awards, funding Transitional Living Programs (CFDA 93.550) for homeless youth ages 16 to under 22, the Basic Center Program (emergency shelter for youth under 18), and youth family preservation services. The Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development funds Continuum of Care Program awards (CFDA 14.267) to support permanent housing, rapid rehousing, and transitional housing with supportive services. These two agencies together account for 81% of recent awards across the top customer set. The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime program and the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration round out the active grantor base. Representative prime grants include a $699,012 HHS Administration for Children and Families Transitional Living Program award (September 30, 2025, through September 29, 2028) providing safe shelter and life skills training to homeless youth, a $255,926 HUD Continuum of Care Program award (February 1, 2026, through January 31, 2027) supporting housing and supportive services for homeless individuals and families, and a Basic Center Program award (September 30, 2023, through September 29, 2026) delivering emergency shelter and counseling to runaway youth under 18.

In its sub-recipient role, El Paso Center For Children Inc. receives funding through the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and the Texas Office of the Governor for Transitional Living Programs, Home Visiting initiatives, Fatherhood EFFECT programming, and Crime Victims' Services projects. Sub-awards from the Texas Office of the Governor (dated as recently as November 2025) include Youth Shelter and Victim's Services, CSEY (commercially sexually exploited youth) Foster Care and Drop-In Center services, and Life Skills and Community Prevention Services targeting at-risk and probation-diversion youth exposed to violence. Sub-awards from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services support Home Visiting and Family and Youth Success programming.

Activity has grown from two awards in 2022 to twelve in 2025, with eight awards recorded in 2026 as of mid-year. Only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating a relatively low recompete cliff in the immediate horizon. Across both prime and sub work, the organization's service delivery model spans emergency shelter, transitional housing for 18 to 21 months with extendable terms, basic life skills and educational attainment programming, counseling and therapeutic services, foster care placement, and community-based prevention and family support to prevent homelessness and youth involvement in the justice system.