Mesilla Valley Community Of Hope

Mesilla Valley Community Of Hope, a Las Cruces, New Mexico-based nonprofit and community development corporation, is a federal grant recipient delivering homelessness prevention, supportive housing, and case management services to very low-income individuals, families, and veterans under the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Continuum of Care (CoC) Program and the Department of Veterans Affairs' Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) Program.

The organization operates as a prime recipient across federal grants (92% of recent awards) and a sub-recipient on smaller grant-funded initiatives (8%). Mesilla Valley Community Of Hope holds no federal contracts; its activity is entirely grant-funded, concentrated within HUD's Community Planning and Development office and the VA's Veterans Health Administration. The organization's service geography is Las Cruces and the surrounding Mesilla Valley community, where it delivers housing-first interventions targeting homeless individuals and families, rapid rehousing assistance, permanent supportive housing for persons with disabilities, transitional housing, and supportive services only (HMIS and case management).

HUD's Continuum of Care Program accounts for the dominant share of grant activity. Representative CoC awards include a $297,783 recipient grant (CFDA 14.267) for September 2025 through August 2026 supporting rapid rehousing and permanent supportive housing operations; a $524,404 award for July 2024 through June 2025 funding permanent supportive housing, case management, and outreach; and a $261,805 award covering September 2024 through August 2025. The VA's Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program (CFDA 64.033) carries two recent awards: an $865,022 recipient grant effective October 2025 through September 2026 and a prior $865,022 award from September 2024. HUD also awarded a long-duration project grant (CFDA unspecified, Economic Development Initiative) with an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2031. Across both grant programs, mandatory services include outreach, case management, VA and public-benefits assistance, and temporary financial assistance for rental support, utilities, security deposits, child care, transportation, moving costs, and emergency housing.

Customer concentration is severe: HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development funds 64 awards; the VA's Veterans Health Administration funds 12 awards; and a single additional VA office funds 1 award—together covering 92% of all awards. The combined dollars obligated across the portfolio reach $15.7 million since the organization's first federal award in October 2003. Recent activity has remained steady at 7 to 9 awards per year from 2022 through 2025, with one award recorded in 2026. Three awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, exposing modest recompete volume in the near term. Mesilla Valley Community Of Hope also acts as a sub-recipient, disbursing federal grant funds through sub-awards for rapid rehousing and homeless-prevention rental assistance (November 2025), supportive services related to rapid rehousing (August 2024), tenant-based rental assistance (October 2023), and homeless service centers (July 2023), signaling its role as a fiscal intermediary and coordinating entity within the local homeless services continuum.