Safe Passage Inc.: A Domestic Peace Program

Safe Passage Inc.: A Domestic Peace Program is a South Carolina–based tax-exempt nonprofit organization that receives federal grants as a prime recipient for emergency shelter, transitional housing, rapid rehousing, and supportive services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness and domestic violence. The organization operates overwhelmingly through subawards (81% of recent awards) routed through state agencies and federal pass-through grantors rather than as a direct federal prime recipient (19% of awards).

Safe Passage's federal footprint centers on homelessness and domestic-violence support services. As a prime recipient, the organization has received four Project Grants under the Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267) from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, with awards spanning 2022 through 2026. The most recent CoC award, issued January 1, 2026, carries $369,076 in funding through December 31, 2026, and supports emergency shelter, transitional housing, rapid rehousing, case management, mental health treatment, and job training in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Safe Passage may utilize CoC funds for real property acquisition and rehabilitation, new construction, rental assistance, operating expenses, and Homeless Management Information Systems administration.

Safe Passage's sub-recipient activity is substantially larger than its prime footprint. The organization has received seventeen subawards since 2022, channeled through the South Carolina Department of Social Services, the South Carolina Attorney General's Office, the South Carolina Department of Public Health, and HUD's Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) program. Representative sub-awards include domestic violence emergency shelter and supportive services grants from the South Carolina Department of Social Services (multiple awards from 2024–2025), comprehensive services for victims and survivors of violence from the South Carolina Attorney General's Office (October 2025 and October 2023), sexual assault services funding from the South Carolina Department of Public Health (September 2025), and Emergency Solutions Grant funding for street outreach, emergency shelter, homelessness prevention, and rapid rehousing (multiple awards from July–September 2025 and June 2023). One sub-award references the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) American Rescue Plan COVID-19 testing, vaccine, and mobile health units.

Customer concentration flows through state gatekeepers and federal victim-services offices. The source names five distinct funding agencies, led by the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (6 awards), the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime (5 awards), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (4 awards). These three account for 81% of the organization's recent awards. Activity has grown from one award in 2022 to eight in 2025; only one award faces ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete cliff exposure. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $3.5 million.