The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army Texas Division, doing business as Salvation Army, is a tax-exempt non-profit organization that operates transitional housing, emergency shelter, rapid rehousing, and case management services for homeless individuals and veterans as a federal grant recipient (85% of recent awards) and federal contract prime, concentrated in HUD Continuum of Care Program grants and Veterans Affairs transitional housing contracts. The organization competes full-and-open without set-aside designations across both funding sources.

The Salvation Army Texas Division's federal footprint is geographically and programmatically narrow. The organization serves two customer agencies exclusively: the Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Integrated Service Network 17 and the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, together accounting for 40% of awards and 86% of combined potential value. All federal work is performed in Corpus Christi, Texas. On the VA side, the organization holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $1.388 million (awarded October 1, 2023, through September 30, 2027) to operate a 10-bed transitional housing program for homeless veterans; two delivery orders have been issued under this IDIQ, including a $132,060 order placed October 1, 2024, running through September 30, 2025. On the HUD side, the organization receives recurring Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267) Project Grants ranging from approximately $193 thousand to $377 thousand annually to provide transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, case management, and emergency shelter services. Recent HUD grants include a $377,373 Project Grant awarded September 1, 2026 (through August 31, 2027) and a $193,173 grant awarded December 1, 2025 (through November 30, 2026).

The organization also acts as a sub-recipient on emergency grant programs flowing through state and local Continuum of Care partnerships, including Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) and community development block grant rapid rehousing funds. Sub-awards documented include ESG-funded emergency shelter and rapid rehousing assistance (September 30, 2024), rapid rehousing stability grants (issued six times from November 2021 through June 2025), and a DHS/FEMA-funded security infrastructure hardening sub-award (January 6, 2025) for facility protection at the Salvation Army of the Coastal Bend.

Activity has remained modest and stable over recent years—four awards in 2022, six in 2023, six in 2024, five in 2025, and one through September 2026—with only two awards (both IDIQs: the VA housing contract and a secondary HUD-related delivery vehicle) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The organization's NAICS profile reflects its operational focus: 66 awards fall under Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities; 8 fall under Temporary Shelters. The organization is a subsidiary of the national parent entity The Salvation Army and operates no federal subcontracting relationships—all work is performed directly as a prime recipient or prime contractor, without named prime partners.