Fort Bend County Women's Center, Inc.

Fort Bend County Women's Center, Inc., doing business as Pennywise Resale Centers, is a Texas-based tax-exempt nonprofit organization that serves as a prime recipient of federal housing and victim services grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Health and Human Services, with complementary sub-recipient activity under state administering agencies in Texas. The organization operates as a domestic shelter and social services provider delivering housing assistance, crisis intervention, and supportive services to homeless individuals, families, domestic violence survivors, and human trafficking victims in the Richmond, Texas area.

Fort Bend County Women's Center's federal footprint consists almost entirely of HUD Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267) grants. Across recent prime awards, the organization has received four major CoC grants in 2025—totaling $4.65 million across awards dated November and December 2025 with performance through October or November 2026—and multiple prior-year CoC awards dating to 2021. Representative recent prime awards include a $2.89 million CoC grant (November 1, 2025) for permanent housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, and homeless management information systems; a $962,971 CoC award (November 1, 2025); and an $831,516 CoC grant (December 1, 2025) funding 24-hour crisis hotlines, emergency shelters, case management, and counseling. Activity has grown steadily—from three awards in 2022 to eleven in 2025—with combined dollars obligated across all awards reaching $34.2 million. Three awards face completion within the next twenty-four months.

Customer concentration is extreme. HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development accounts for forty awards (98% of the portfolio by agency count), anchoring the organization's entire prime grant footprint. Secondary customers include the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (seven awards) and the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime (four awards), reflecting the organization's expansion into complementary victim services. Fort Bend County Women's Center operates as a sub-recipient on domestic violence shelter and supportive services grants flowing through the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and the Texas Office of the Governor. Recent sub-awards include recurring Family Violence Prevention and Services grants from HHSC (dated February, May, and August 2025–2026) and a $574,531 Texas Governor's Office sub-award (September 2024) for the "Enhancing Victim Services" project, which provides counseling, neurofeedback training, and case management for domestic violence and sexual assault survivors and their children.

The organization does not hold federal contracts or contract vehicles such as GWACs, IDIQs, or schedules; its federal engagement is grant-based only. Grant work centers on operating permanent supportive housing for persons with disabilities, rapid rehousing, transitional housing facilities, supportive services only (case management, counseling, crisis hotlines), homeless management information systems, and homelessness prevention activities across five program components under the Continuum of Care framework. The organization's resale center operations (referenced in the DBA) complement its social services mission but do not appear as a distinct federal funding line.