Hope House, Inc.

Hope House, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Lee's Summit, Missouri, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering victim-centered transitional housing, crisis intervention, and legal advocacy services to survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking across the Kansas City metropolitan area and surrounding Missouri counties. The organization acts as a prime recipient on federal grants (42% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient under state and local pass-through arrangements (58% of recent awards), with four decades of experience in the field.

Hope House's capability portfolio centers on residential shelter operations, 24-hour crisis hotline services, transitional and rapid-rehousing programs, supervised visitation and safe exchange facilitation, civil legal services, safety planning, case management, and supportive services including financial and employment counseling. Representative prime grants include a $736,112 award from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women under the Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders Program (CFDA 16.590) effective April 1, 2026, in which Hope House will deploy a Justice Systems Coordinator and victim advocates while establishing workgroups to address domestic violence in its service area and continuing a Lethality Assessment Program through March 31, 2029; a $500,000 project grant from the Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582) awarded October 1, 2025, to expand and strengthen its 24-hour crisis hotline serving victims in eastern Jackson County; and a $500,000 award from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women under the Transitional Housing Assistance Grants program (CFDA 16.736), also effective October 1, 2025, to provide eight scattered-site transitional housing residences with supportive services through Community Services League partnership, running through September 30, 2028.

Federal funding concentrates with the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (17 awards), followed by the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (11 awards across two sub-categories), the Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (6 awards), and the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime (5 awards) — together representing 75% of recent awards. On the sub-recipient side, Hope House receives pass-through funding from the Missouri Department of Social Services under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Victims of Crime Act (VOCA), Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA), and Domestic Violence Survivor Services (DVSS) programs, and from the Missouri Department of Public Safety and local jurisdictions including the City of Independence and City of Blue Springs for victim advocacy and criminal justice coordination work.

Activity has grown substantially in recent years: four awards in 2022, five in 2023, eleven in 2024, nine in 2025, and five year-to-date in 2026. Combined dollars obligated across all 52 awards total $17.2 million. Three awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting a modest recompete window. Hope House also operates specialized initiatives including a Companion Animal Project funded by a $100,000 Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grant from the Office for Victims of Crime (CFDA 16.582, October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2026) that provides safe shelter for survivors and their pets, emergency animal placement coordination, and veterinary assistance. Performance occurs in Lee's Summit with service delivery across the Kansas City region.