Pacific County

Pacific County, a U.S. local government entity headquartered in South Bend, Washington, receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient for youth homelessness intervention, community mental health, and public health workforce development programs, with secondary sub-recipient activity across pandemic response and maternal-child health initiatives.

Pacific County's federal footprint is dominated by HUD Continuum of Care (CoC) Program grants under CFDA 14.267, which account for 19 of 34 prime awards. The county holds two named subsidiaries — Pacific County Department of Community Development and County of Pacific — and operates across 18 distinct federal customer agencies. Recent activity shows growth: five awards in 2021 climbing to twelve in 2025, with four awards reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. Prime awards constitute 69% of the total portfolio; 31% flows through sub-recipient status under state-level intermediaries, primarily the Washington State Department of Health.

The CoC Program work centers on rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, case management, and homelessness prevention services for households where no person exceeds 24 years of age. Representative recent examples include a $118,335 project grant awarded October 1, 2025, for one-year youth homelessness demonstration programming through September 30, 2026, and a $294,568 award for the same period supporting housing components, HMIS operations, and prevention activities. A third CoC grant dating to November 1, 2023 (through October 31, 2024) carried $166,868 for rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and case management. Beyond homelessness, Pacific County received a three-year Bureau of Justice Assistance project grant (October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027) to implement youth suicide prevention training, trauma response protocols, and the Sources of Strength program across 8th-12th grade populations, in response to the county's 10th-highest youth suicide rate statewide.

Sub-recipient grants flow primarily through the Washington State Department of Health across public health infrastructure, COVID-19 response and vaccination, Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutrition services, maternal and child health, and public health emergency preparedness. A sub-award from the Washington State Department of Transportation supported bridge replacement. The source carries combined potential value of $33 thousand against combined obligated dollars of $7.4 million, reflecting the mismatch between reported ceiling and invoice on grant work. The Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development dominates concentration at 19 awards; the Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service, Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service, Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, and the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 each account for two awards. With 55% coverage in the top-customers-by-award-count block, the remaining 45% of awards distribute across a broad set of federal grantor agencies, indicating opportunistic grant participation rather than a concentrated prime-customer relationship.