Families In Transition Of Santa Cruz Inc.

Families In Transition Of Santa Cruz Inc., a nonprofit organization headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, acts as a prime recipient of federal grants under the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267), delivering homelessness services including permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, homelessness prevention, case management, job training, mental health and substance abuse treatment, and Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) support to vulnerable populations in the Santa Cruz region.

The organization's federal award footprint is concentrated exclusively with HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, which has issued all 26 tracked awards under the CoC Program since 2006. Families In Transition operates solely as a prime grant recipient with no subcontractor or sub-recipient activity in the source data. Recent awards include a $656,587 Project Grant obligated on December 1, 2025 (completion November 30, 2026), a $316,274 Project Grant effective October 1, 2025 (completion September 30, 2026), a $571,952 Project Grant awarded December 1, 2024 (completion November 30, 2025), and a $560,228 Project Grant awarded December 1, 2023 (completion November 30, 2024). Funding flows on a roughly annual basis, with awards historically ranging from approximately $263,000 to $656,000 per grant. The organization also acts as a sub-recipient of additional grants from the California Department of Housing and Community Development, extending its service capacity through state funding channels.

Activity has remained steady at two awards per year across the past five years (2021–2025), with combined obligated dollars across all 26 tracked awards totaling $8.1 million. Two awards will reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete. The organization's federal customer base is entirely single-agency concentrated — HUD accounts for 100% of recent awards by both volume and dollar value. Families In Transition's role in the CoC Program reflects HUD's community-wide strategy to end homelessness through nonprofit providers; the organization's consistent funding renewal and award magnitude indicate sustained federal recognition of its operational effectiveness in Santa Cruz's homelessness services ecosystem.