North Hudson Community Action Corporation

North Hudson Community Action Corporation, a tax-exempt nonprofit founded in 1965, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering community health services, housing assistance, and social support programs to low-income families in Hudson County, New Jersey and surrounding areas. NHCAC operates as a prime recipient on 56% of its federal awards and as a sub-recipient on 44%, with no federal contracts in its footprint — the organization's federal footprint consists entirely of grants and sub-grant awards across eleven distinct funding agencies.

NHCAC's capability portfolio centers on federally qualified health center (FQHC) services, homelessness prevention and housing, early childhood education, and nutrition assistance. The organization operates as a primary care medical home and has earned multiple HRSA quality badges and the highest level of Joint Commission approval. Representative prime grant work includes a $885,229 Continuum of Care Program award from HUD (CFDA 14.267) running through June 30, 2027, supporting permanent housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, and homelessness prevention across five program components in Union City, New Jersey; a Comprehensive Housing Counseling grant from HUD's Assistant Secretary for Housing Federal Housing Commissioner providing pre-purchase home buying counseling, mortgage delinquency assistance, and foreclosure prevention; an Early Head Start Afterschool Program award from the Office of Planning Research and Evaluation (dated August 31, 2026) serving 32 children ages 18 months to 3 years with extended-day learning, care, and enrichment services; and a Head Start and Early Head Start award from the Office of Head Start running through March 31, 2027. NHCAC also holds an Ending the HIV Epidemic — Primary Care HIV Prevention grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration's Bureau of Primary Health Care (award date September 1, 2022, completion August 31, 2025) implementing direct service delivery and HIV testing across FQHC sites in Hudson, Bergen, and Passaic counties; a FY 2023 Bridge Access Program grant from the Bureau of Primary Health Care; and housing counseling and vaccine-expansion grants completed in recent years. As a sub-recipient, NHCAC delivers WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) services, breastfeeding peer counseling, and nutrition assistance programs through the New Jersey Department of Health and the New Jersey Department of Agriculture, and receives pass-through funding for health, education, employment, and housing services through the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (Community Development Block Grant funding for low-income families in Northern Hudson County).

NHCAC's customer concentration is split across HUD (Community Planning and Development and Housing Commissioner offices), the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, and the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, collectively accounting for 76% of recent awards. HUD's Continuum of Care Program and Comprehensive Housing Counseling grants recur annually; nutrition and WIC sub-awards cycle through state pass-through mechanisms on a seasonal basis (principally October 1 cycles). The organization's award portfolio peaked at eighteen awards in 2023 and declined to four awards in 2026 year-to-date. Only three awards carry ultimate completion dates inside the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure in the near term. The organization operates at seven health center locations across Hudson, Bergen, and Passaic counties, with administrative headquarters in Union City, New Jersey.