Greenhouse17 Inc.

Greenhouse17 Inc., doing business as the Bluegrass Domestic Violence Program, operates as a tax-exempt nonprofit organization providing domestic violence crisis intervention, emergency shelter, transitional housing, and victim support services to survivors across a 17-county central Kentucky region as a federal grant recipient. The organization acts primarily as a sub-recipient (56% of recent awards) through Kentucky's Justice & Public Safety Cabinet, with a secondary role as a prime grant recipient (44% of awards) under federal victim services and housing programs.

Greenhouse17's federal grant portfolio centers on three core capability areas anchored by the Department of Justice and Department of Housing and Urban Development. The organization is a prime recipient of a $498,516 three-year Crime Victim Assistance grant (CFDA 16.582) from the Office for Victims of Crime running through September 2028, supporting the Expanded Crisis Intervention and Pathways to Support Services Project—which operates the region's only 24-hour crisis hotline, implements the evidence-based Lethality Assessment Program in partnership with regional law enforcement, and provides digital crisis intervention services. As a HUD prime recipient, Greenhouse17 holds a $277,327 Continuum of Care (CoC) Program award (CFDA 14.267) for January through December 2026, delivering transitional housing assistance, emergency shelter, rapid rehousing, case management, safety planning, and supportive services to domestic violence survivors and homeless individuals. The organization also receives a three-year $277,327 Office on Violence Against Women Transitional Housing grant (running through September 2026) and a Grants to Support Families in the Justice System (Justice for Families) award (CFDA unspecified) effective October 2024 through September 2027, supporting supervised visitation and safe exchange services, court advocacy, and economic justice programming in partnership with Kentucky's Family Court of the 50th Jurisdiction, the Lexington-Fayette Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention Coalition, and the Georgetown Police Department.

As a sub-recipient, Greenhouse17 receives pass-through funding from the Justice & Public Safety Cabinet for continuation of trauma-informed victim services including a 42-bed emergency shelter, 24-hour crisis hotline, legal advocacy across domestic violence courts, safety planning, supervised custodial visitation, medical advocacy, counseling, job readiness and employment assistance, housing support, and public benefits navigation. Recent sub-awards address the L-JUST project (legal justice and no-fee attorney services for victims) and interim trauma-informed victim services responding to an estimated 3,500 victims and dependent children annually across the Bluegrass Area Development District.

Greenhouse17's customer concentration reflects the domestic violence victim services and homelessness prevention federal funding landscape. The top five funding entities account for 83% of recent awards: the Office on Violence Against Women (5 awards), the Office for Victims of Crime (5 awards), and HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (3 awards). Activity has grown modestly—one award in 2022 to four in both 2024 and 2025—with four awards reaching completion within the next twenty-four months and facing recompete. Combined federal dollars obligated across all awards total $6.2 million, concentrated in housing, crisis response, and victim legal advocacy.