Lutheran Social Services Of Wisconsin And Upper Michigan, Inc.

Lutheran Social Services Of Wisconsin And Upper Michigan, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit headquartered in Milwaukee, delivers residential reentry center services, home confinement programming, and community transition support to the Bureau of Prisons as a prime contractor on a single-award indefinite-delivery contract, and operates as a grant recipient and sub-recipient across homelessness prevention, refugee resettlement, and substance-abuse treatment programs funded by HUD, USDA, and HHS.

The organization competes full-and-open across its federal footprint, with no set-aside designations on recent awards. Lutheran Social Services has maintained federal registration since 2007 and operates service delivery across Wisconsin and Michigan, with administrative and operational presence in West Allis and Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Central Office dominates Lutheran Social Services' customer concentration by both award count and dollar magnitude. Of 251 total federal awards across prime contracts, grants, and sub-awards, the Bureau of Prisons accounts for 78 awards valued at $35.7 million combined potential value—95% of the vendor's entire federal portfolio. The remaining 5% of dollars distribute across the Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (51 awards, primarily grant-funded Continuum of Care program work), the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (22 awards under the National School Lunch Program as a sub-recipient), and the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (38 awards combined across refugee resettlement, outreach, and substance-abuse treatment initiatives). This concentration exposes Lutheran Social Services to significant recompete risk: only three awards totaling $832 thousand reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, but the single-award Bureau of Prisons IDIQ represents the operational and financial anchor of the organization's federal business.

Lutheran Social Services holds a single-award indefinite-delivery contract (15BRRC23R00000023, ceiling $6.026 million, extended through February 28, 2030) with the Bureau of Prisons Central Office. The contract, awarded March 1, 2025, is the vehicle under which the majority of recent task orders flow. In the past several years, representative Bureau of Prisons delivery orders include a $742,524 residential reentry center and home confinement services order (March 1, 2026, performance in Eau Claire and West Allis), a $480,960 order for the same services (March 1, 2025 through February 28, 2026), a $289,216 order for reentry center services within a two-hundred-mile radius of Eau Claire (September 1, 2024, completion February 28, 2025), and a $210,627 community transition services order (October 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025). All Bureau of Prisons work is priced firm fixed-price with no set-aside applied. Five additional Bureau of Prisons IDIQs (contracts 15BCTS18D00000542, DJBTDAT204, DJB200078, 15BRRC19D00000153, and DJB200827) collectively account for 59 older or legacy task orders valued at $10.7 million, indicating sustained performance across multiple contract vehicles over the past decade.

Lutheran Social Services operates as a primary recipient of HUD Continuum of Care Program grants (CFDA 14.267), with thirteen prime grant awards documented since 2022. Recent grants include a $100,978 project grant (June 1, 2026, completion May 31, 2027) for permanent housing, transitional housing, supportive services, and HMIS operations in West Allis. The Continuum of Care funding supports eligible costs for permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, homeless management information systems, and homelessness prevention. As a sub-recipient, Lutheran Social Services receives flow-through funding from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (National School Lunch Program, monthly awards from 2022 onward), the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (transitional living, rapid re-housing, and outreach projects, twenty-plus sub-awards documented since 2023), the State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services (substance-abuse treatment alternatives and Prevention and Treatment Block Grant awards, CFDA 93.959), the State of Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (refugee resettlement agencies and Refugee Support Services awards, thirteen sub-awards from November 2023 onward), and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Inc. (refugee reception and placement, matching grants, and emergency refugee assistance, seven sub-awards since October 2023). Most recently, a $679,632 HOME-ARP sub-award (September 22, 2026) funded construction of six affordable housing units in Beloit, Wisconsin, with an additional $150,000 for supportive services to residents.

Award activity peaked in 2023 with 63 awards (driven by the onboarding of multiple HUD CoC and state refugee-resettlement sub-awards) and has contracted to nine awards year-to-date in 2026. The combined obligated dollars across all awards total $33.2 million (88% of combined potential value of $37.8 million), indicating substantial drawdown against active vehicles. Lutheran Social Services' federal footprint is concentrated in two NAICS categories: Other Residential Care Facilities (45 awards, primary framing for Bureau of Prisons contracts) and Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers (38 awards, primary framing for HHS and HUD grant work). The primary federal PSC code is Social-Social Rehabilitation (83 awards). The vendor does not appear in the federal award database as a subcontractor to prime federal contractors; its sub-award activity is entirely grant sub-recipient relationships with state and nonprofit intermediaries.