Hope United

Hope United, a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Arroyo Grande, California, operates exclusively as a sub-recipient on federal grants focused on victim services, with no prime contract or grant awards in its federal footprint. The organization serves as a sub-recipient under the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), the nationwide prime grantee for trafficking victim assistance programs funded by the Department of Health and Human Services.

All four of Hope United's recent federal awards trace to a single customer agency — the HHS Administration for Children and Families — and derive from USCRI's Trafficking Victim Assistance Program (TVAP) and Child Trafficking Victim Assistance Program. Hope United provides comprehensive case management services to qualified adult and minor victims of human trafficking within the United States, delivering direct support including emergency assistance, housing services, safety planning, basic needs assistance, health services, legal services, education, employment services, language access, and assistance in obtaining HHS certification to access benefits equivalent to refugee benefits. All four sub-awards originated on October 1, 2022 and September 30, 2022 — the awards carry a combined $18 thousand in obligated federal dollars. The organization's federal activity has remained dormant since the end of fiscal 2022, with no awards or sub-awards recorded in the three years since that initial funding cohort.

Hope United's participation in federal grant programs is entirely dependent on its relationship with USCRI, which has served as the sole nationwide TVAP grantee since 2019 and has administered the program since 2011. The nonprofit does not appear in federal contract vehicles, does not hold any SBA set-aside certifications, and maintains no prime federal contracting or grant presence — its federal footprint consists entirely of sub-recipient work routed through a single prime grantee relationship in the human trafficking victim services sector.