Friendly House Inc.

Friendly House Inc., a Massachusetts-based tax-exempt nonprofit organization, is a recipient of federal grants for homelessness prevention, family stabilization, and community support services, operating entirely as a sub-recipient on food nutrition and social services grants flowing through Massachusetts state agencies. The organization holds one prime federal grant award (a $100,000 Social Services Research and Demonstration grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, awarded August 31, 2026) but derives 98% of its federal award volume through sub-recipient roles on state-administered programs, with negligible federal contract footprint.

Friendly House's federal activity concentrates heavily in nutrition and emergency assistance. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service accounts for 26 of the 41 total awards in the source dataset, flowing through the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education as the prime grantee. These sub-awards support the Child Nutrition Program, including block grants and child and adult care food services, with awards dated from July 2023 through August 2026. The HHS Administration for Children and Families prime grant—the organization's only direct federal award—runs through August 30, 2027, and funds a homelessness prevention and stabilization program providing triaged case management and direct client aid to prevent eviction and support housing transitions in Massachusetts. Sub-recipient work under HHS programs includes emergency triage services for newly settled immigrants and refugees, direct case management serving 400–800 unduplicated clients annually across neighborhood centers, youth programming (afterschool, summer recreation, basketball, and teen leadership), and facility improvements such as ADA-accessible entryway installation. A December 2024 sub-award under Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding extends emergency triage and community support services to housing-insecure newcomers.

Friendly House has served only two distinct federal customer agencies across recent awards. The combined dollars obligated across all forty-one awards total $1.6 million, with activity accelerating from six awards in 2023 to sixteen in 2024, then declining to seven in 2025 before rising to twelve in 2026. Only one award reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete exposure in the near term. The organization's federal footprint is narrowly specialized: domestic shelter operations, food and nutrition services delivery, and immigrant/refugee community support anchored to Massachusetts geography, with no federal contracting vehicles, no defense relationships, and no exposure to federal procurement above the state pass-through mechanism.