Hias Inc.

Hias Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, operates as a federal grant recipient providing refugee resettlement, humanitarian assistance, and integration services to displaced populations worldwide, with 96% of its recent federal award footprint as prime recipient (192 awards) and the remainder as sub-recipient on research projects.

Hias's federal customer base is heavily concentrated in refugee and humanitarian assistance programs. The Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) accounts for 137 awards across the top-customer cohort, anchoring the vendor's activity across multiple federal grant programs including the Overseas Refugee Assistance Programs for Africa (CFDA 19.517), Overseas Refugee Assistance Programs for Western Hemisphere (CFDA 19.518), and regional refugee processing and reception-and-placement cooperative agreements. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (ACF) supplies 27 awards, primarily through the Office of Refugee Resettlement, funding formula grants under the Refugee and Entrant Assistance State/Replacement Designee Administered Programs (CFDA 93.566) and project grants for refugee microenterprise development, individual development accounts, employer engagement, and career pathways programs. The National Institute of Mental Health accounts for 5 awards, funding implementation research on mental health interventions for migrants in transit. These three agencies represent 94% of awards by count.

Representative prime-recipient work spans domestic resettlement and international humanitarian assistance. Hias received a $2.899 million formula grant from HHS/ACF Office of Refugee Resettlement (awarded April 1, 2026, completing May 28, 2027) to deliver Refugee Cash and Medical Assistance and Refugee Support Services in Maryland, including employment assistance, case management, language instruction, and case management for unaccompanied refugee minors. Internationally, Hias received multiple cooperative agreements from State/PRM including a $5.2 million award for protection, self-reliance, and violence-prevention services in Ecuador; a $4.395 million cooperative agreement for gender-based violence prevention and child protection in Chad; and a $2 million award for protection and livelihood services in Nairobi, Kenya. Additional grants from State/PRM support refugee and migrant assistance in Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, and the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Curaçao, and Guyana. In its sub-recipient role, Hias partners with Columbia University on research projects (subawards dated October 2025, June 2024, and December 2023) implementing evidence-based mental health interventions including Problem Management Plus (PM+) for migrants in transit in Colombia, with research staff coordination and field administration performed by Hias across multiple years.

Activity declined from 19 awards in 2022 to 2 awards in 2025 and 1 award in 2026 (through April), a trend driven by award consolidations and program rescoping within PRM cooperative agreements rather than loss of customer relationship — many awards in the 2022–2024 window carried short performance periods or no-cost extensions that have now completed. Seven awards face ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and therefore enter recompete. Recent funding terminations and rescoping actions (announced September 2024 onward, aligned with executive orders on diversity, equity, and inclusion) affected multiple PRM cooperative agreements serving vulnerable refugee and migrant populations, including awards for LGBTQI+ asylum seeker protections in Israel, gender-based violence prevention in Central America, and statelessness legal assistance — these terminations mark a shift in policy rather than vendor performance decline.

Hias's combined federal dollars obligated across all awards total $1.27 billion, reflecting its role as a principal implementing partner for U.S. refugee resettlement and humanitarian assistance globally. The organization delivers services at performance sites across the United States (Maryland, North Carolina, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, and other states) and worldwide, with administrative oversight in Silver Spring, Maryland, and field operations in Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela, Chad, Kenya, and the Caribbean. Services are delivered as a sole recipient under formula and cooperative-agreement structures, and teaming relationships with Hias appear limited to research sub-awards with academic institutions (Columbia University, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors) rather than commercial prime contractors. The vendor's federal footprint is not accessible through contract vehicles, GWACs, or BPAs — federal engagement flows entirely through direct grant awards from State Department bureaus and HHS grant programs.