The Colorado Coalition For The Homeless

The Colorado Coalition For The Homeless, a Denver-based nonprofit tax-exempt organization, acts as a prime recipient of federal grants focused on homelessness prevention, permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, and integrated health services for individuals and families experiencing homelessness across the 7-county Metro Denver region and 6-county rural southeastern Colorado service area. The organization does not hold federal contracts; its federal footprint is entirely grant-based (485 prime grants and 26 sub-awards across 511 total awards).

The organization's federal customer base is deeply concentrated around housing and homelessness programs. HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development accounts for 421 awards (82% of the total award count) under the Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267), which funds permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, and Homeless Management Information Systems infrastructure. Representative CoC grants include a $9.967 million award (May 1, 2026, obligated through April 30, 2027), a $8.691 million award (May 1, 2024, obligated through April 30, 2025), and a $6.172 million award (April 1, 2026, obligated through March 31, 2027). Secondary federal funding streams anchor the organization's health and employment mission: the Department of Veterans Affairs (11 awards) funds transitional housing and per diem costs for homeless veterans through the VHA; the Health Resources and Services Administration (10 awards, CFDA 64.011 Health Center Program) supports integrated primary care, behavioral health, and expanded hours operations at shelter-based and street medicine sites; and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (multiple project grants) funds medications for opioid use disorder, peer recovery support, and harm reduction services targeting people experiencing homelessness with substance use disorders. The Department of Veterans Affairs also awarded a multi-year grant (July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2026) under the Veterans Employment and Training Service to support employment services and career placement for homeless veterans, with target outcomes of 61% placement rate into paid employment at or above $18.50 per hour.

Activity has remained relatively flat across the past five years — 13 awards in 2022, rising to 22 in 2023, then stabilizing at 19 in both 2024 and 2025, with 11 awards in 2026 year-to-date. Eleven awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing near-term recompete opportunity. The source data reflects a significant reporting discrepancy: the combined potential value across all 511 awards is listed as $426 thousand, while combined dollars obligated across those same awards totals $671 million — a 157,564% variance that indicates the source's "potential value" field carries data-entry artifacts or placeholder values for the vast majority of CoC grants (which typically carry annual awards in the hundreds of thousands to millions). The obligated-dollar figure of $671 million is the operative magnitude of the organization's recent federal grant footprint.

The Colorado Coalition For The Homeless also operates Renaissance 88 Apartments LLLP, a for-profit community development corporation subsidiary, reflecting the organization's real-estate and permanent supportive housing development function. As a prime recipient, the organization has diversified into sub-award positions under state and federal intermediaries: recent sub-awards include tenancy support services funding from the Colorado Department of Human Services (July 30, 2024), Title X family planning program sub-awards routed through the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (multiple awards 2023–2025), victim-services crisis response and case management sub-awards from the Colorado Department of Public Safety (December 2025 and January 2025), and food security and housing development support sub-awards from CDBG and other state sources (August 2026, January 2026).