Pacific Gateway Center

Pacific Gateway Center, a Hawaii-based tax-exempt nonprofit and minority-owned community development corporation, operates as a federal grant recipient (74% of recent awards) and subcontractor on programs serving vulnerable populations, with work concentrated in refugee and immigrant services, agricultural assistance, and worker support through the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, the Department of Agriculture, and the Small Business Administration.

Pacific Gateway Center's federal footprint is anchored in grant-funded social services delivery rather than federal contracting. The organization holds two prime federal grants: a project grant from the USDA Washington Office (Rural Business Cooperative Services track) awarded November 2023, running through November 2028, to provide technical assistance and financial support to farmers for capital and market access; and a USDA Agricultural Marketing Service project grant awarded January 2022 (completed January 2023) that funded COVID-19 relief for food processors, distributors, farmers markets, and producers covering workplace safety retrofits, market pivots, worker housing, and medical expenses incurred between January 2020 and December 2021. As a sub-recipient, Pacific Gateway Center receives grant awards from the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants on multiple federal grant programs: an Office on Trafficking in Persons Trafficking Victim Assistance Program (TVAP) sub-award for comprehensive case management to foreign national adult trafficking survivors; multiple Migration and Case Management grants providing employment services, case management, and direct cash assistance to ORR-eligible populations (refugees, humanitarian parolees, and other populations) to achieve economic self-sufficiency within 180–240 days; and a GAPS program sub-award providing outreach, intake, assessment, and housing assistance to Afghan and Ukrainian humanitarian parolees, refugee entrants, and Cubans/Haitians. Pacific Gateway Center also holds a subcontract from Acacia Center for Justice, awarded August 2024, for legal services to unaccompanied children under the Office of Refugee Resettlement Unaccompanied Children Program.

Customer concentration runs heavily toward HHS Administration for Children and Families across grant awards (totaling 17 of 27 prime and sub-grant awards), supplemented by USDA Rural Housing Service and Small Business Administration rural development grants. The organization served eleven distinct federal agencies in recent award activity. Activity is irregular — one award in 2019, four in 2022, three each in 2023 and 2024, and one in 2025 — reflecting the episodic funding cycles of federal grant programs rather than sustained contract pipeline. The combined potential value across all 34 awards is listed as $25 thousand; obligated funds total $11.6 million, indicating that the actual value delivered substantially exceeds the stated potential-value figure and reflects the nonprofit's role as a sub-recipient on larger federal grant vehicles. Service Contract Inventory data captured 2.4 FTEs on federal service contracts in FY2024, all in a subcontractor role, a narrow slice that excludes most of the organization's grant-funded activity and does not reflect the full scale of Pacific Gateway Center's federal service delivery.