Talbot House Ministries Of Lakeland, Inc.

Talbot House Ministries Of Lakeland, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit domestic shelter organization based in Lakeland, Florida, receives federal funding as a prime recipient under HUD's Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267) and as a contractor under the Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Integrated Service Network 8 (VISN 8) for homeless veteran residences and supportive services. The organization operates with no set-aside designations and competes on full-and-open basis across both grant and contract vehicles.

Talbot House's service portfolio centers on emergency shelter, transitional housing, residential support, rapid rehousing, case management, workforce development, and employment assistance for homeless individuals and families, with particular emphasis on homeless veterans in Polk County and the greater Lakeland area. The organization's federal work spans two distinct customer streams: HUD CoC grants (43 awards, all but three of 58 total awards) and VA contract delivery orders under a single-award indefinite-delivery contract. Representative CoC grant work includes a $157,402 project grant awarded April 1, 2026 (completion March 31, 2027), a $128,595 project grant awarded August 1, 2025 (completion July 31, 2026), and a $346,075 project grant awarded August 1, 2024 (completion July 31, 2025), all for comprehensive housing and supportive services across CoC's five program components. On the VA side, Talbot House holds a single-award IDIQ (36C24824D0101) with a $1.379 million ceiling, awarded September 26, 2024, running through September 25, 2026, with two delivered orders totaling $379,680: a $262,800 Firm Fixed Price delivery order for Homeless Veteran Residences (awarded September 26, 2025, completing September 25, 2026) and a $116,880 order for Veterans Residential Services (awarded September 26, 2024, completing September 25, 2025), both performance-based at Lakeland, Florida as part of VA's Healthcare for Homeless Veterans program.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed to HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (43 awards, 79% of recent activity), with the VA (3 awards, $1.8 million combined potential value) anchoring all near-term dollar exposure. Talbot House also receives sub-grant awards from Polk County using Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) and Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) to fund complementary employment services, shelter operations, and rapid rehousing initiatives. Award activity has remained steady across the past four years (four to seven awards annually from 2022 through 2025), though the combined potential value of awards completing within the next twenty-four months is modest ($263 thousand), suggesting limited near-term recompete pressure but also indicating that the majority of Talbot House's federal work is grant-funded on recurring annual cycles rather than contract-based ceiling-value vehicles. The organization's federal footprint reflects its core mission as a nonprofit homeless services provider with established relationships in the HUD CoC ecosystem and emerging veteran-services capacity under VA funding.