Swords To Plowshares Veterans Rights Organization

Swords To Plowshares Veterans Rights Organization, doing business as Swords To Plowshares, is a San Francisco–based tax-exempt nonprofit that delivers housing support, case management, legal services, employment training, and mental health care for homeless and at-risk veterans to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Labor as a prime contractor on federal service contracts and grants. The organization operates almost exclusively as a direct prime recipient or contractor (99% of awards), with minimal subcontracting, and competes full-and-open on merit and specialized expertise rather than under set-aside designations.

Swords To Plowshares' federal footprint concentrates sharply on veteran homelessness services. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 (VISN 21) dominates the customer base, accounting for 51 awards and $109.4 million in combined potential value — effectively 100% of the tracked portfolio value. This represents deep entrenchment in San Francisco–area VA contracting. Within VISN 21, Swords To Plowshares holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC 36C26118D0107) with an $8.59 million ceiling through February 2027 for Health Care for Homeless Veterans services, including low-demand safe haven housing and emergency housing assistance. Recent task orders under this vehicle include a $2.6 million delivery order for emergency housing services through March 2025, a $2.8 million delivery order for low-demand safe haven housing through March 2026, and a $1.2 million FAR 52.217-8 extension through February 2027. A separate multiple-award IDC (36C26121D0019, $3 million ceiling) procures housing support specialist services; Swords To Plowshares places task orders valued at $250,024 and $499,991 for outreach and case management. Secondary VA vehicles include IDCs for psychiatric residential treatment and community-based housing services.

Swords To Plowshares' grant portfolio underscores the same mission. The organization holds active federal grants from the VA under the Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program (CFDA 64.033) — most recently a $11.27 million award (September 2025 through September 2026) for housing-first supportive services to very low-income veteran families, alongside a smaller $718,780 legacy SSVF award. The organization also received a $500,000 Legal Services for Homeless Veterans and Veterans At-Risk for Homelessness grant (CFDA 64.056) effective October 2025 through September 2027, and holds two sub-grants focused on securing VA benefits and access to care for low-income and homeless veterans. The Department of Labor's Veterans Employment and Training Service funded two three-year Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program (HVRP) grants ($1.5 million each) effective July 2023 through June 2026, covering employment and vocational training for homeless veterans across the San Francisco Bay Area and surrounding counties. The VA's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) funded a $2.1 million Veterans Community Center project grant through September 2024, offering clinical case management, peer support, mental health counseling, and wraparound services for formerly homeless senior veterans. Earlier-stage grants included a $1.5 million Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention grant (CFDA 64.055) that closed out in September 2023 without renewal for year four.

Activity trends show recent deceleration. The organization received eight awards in 2022, declining to seven annually in 2023–2024, and only five in 2025, with one award in 2026 (a three-week-old delivery order). Recompete exposure inside the next twenty-four months is minimal — only two awards worth $1.2 million combined potential value face ultimate completion before October 2028. SCI-reportable invoiced federal service-contract revenue totaled $6.9 million across FY2024–FY2025, with $2.6 million and 18.2 FTEs in FY2024 rising to $4.2 million and 30.0 FTEs in FY2025. On these SCI-captured contracts, government-paid hourly rates ran a median of $68.69/hr, spanning a 10th percentile of $63.38/hr to a 90th percentile of $74.01/hr. Swords To Plowshares performs all delivery in-house (0% sub-hours share across SCI-prime contracts); the organization maintains vertical integration of housing operations, case management, legal services, and clinical care delivery rather than outsourcing core functions.

Place of performance is concentrated in San Francisco, California (94102), with secondary service areas across the San Francisco Bay Area, Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano counties for employment and housing programs. The organization's federal footprint extends across ten distinct customer agencies, but VISN 21 and VA grant programs absorb the overwhelming majority of both awards and dollars. Swords To Plowshares is not a federal contractor vehicle holder and does not hold positions on government-wide acquisition contracts or multiagency schedules; all work flows through agency-specific contracts and grant agreements.