Rose Brooks Center, Inc.

Rose Brooks Center, Inc., a Kansas City–based tax-exempt nonprofit organization, operates as a prime recipient and sub-recipient of federal grants for emergency shelter, transitional housing, rapid rehousing, and victim advocacy services for domestic violence survivors and homeless individuals and families. The organization does not hold federal contracts and competes exclusively in the grant space.

Rose Brooks Center's federal footprint is concentrated in HUD's Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267) and the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women's Transitional Housing Assistance Grants for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Program (CFDA 16.736). As a prime recipient, the organization holds CoC awards totaling approximately $1.15 million (2026), $1.02 million (2025), and $222 thousand (2025 and 2024), along with a $650 thousand three-year DoJ OVW transitional housing grant running through September 2026 for 12 scattered-site units. Representative work includes trauma-informed emergency shelter operations, scattered-site transitional housing with case management and crisis counseling, rapid rehousing assistance, legal advocacy, and homelessness prevention services. The organization partners with Legal Aid of Western Missouri, Metro Lutheran Ministry, and the Greater Kansas City Coalition to End Homelessness to deliver integrated support.

Customer concentration sits heavily with HUD: the top five funding agencies account for 82% of recent awards, led by HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (24 awards) and the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (9 awards), followed by the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (6 awards) and the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime (4 awards). Rose Brooks Center also receives sub-award funding through the Missouri Department of Social Services and Department of Public Safety for domestic violence services, victim compensation support, shelter operations, and rapid-rehousing case management under state pass-through programs including the Family Violence Prevention Services Act (FVPSA), Domestic Violence Services Stabilization (DVSS), Victims of Crime Act (VOCA), and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).

Award volume has grown from 3 awards in 2022 to a peak of 11 in 2023, settling at 7–8 annually in 2024–2025. Combined obligated dollars across all 56 awards total $17.1 million. Only 2 awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, minimizing near-term recompete exposure. The organization splits prime (55%) and sub-award (45%) work roughly evenly, with sub-awards flowing primarily through state social services agencies rather than federal primes, reflecting the organization's positioning as an on-the-ground service provider embedded in the Kansas City domestic violence and homelessness response network.