The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in West Nyack, New York, operates as a federal recipient and prime contractor delivering homeless assistance, transitional housing for veterans, social services for seniors, and supportive services for vulnerable populations including trafficking survivors and at-risk youth. The organization competes full-and-open across federal grant programs (CFDA 14.267 Continuum of Care Program, CFDA 64.033 Supportive Services for Veteran Families, CFDA 16.320 Services for Trafficking Victims) and holds positions on multiple Veterans Affairs basic ordering agreements and indefinite-delivery contracts for adult day health care and transitional housing operations.

The Salvation Army's federal footprint concentrates heavily in grant work rather than traditional procurement contracts. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 81% of 724 recent awards: the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development leads with 362 awards funded through the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267), the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service accounts for 141 awards (primarily child nutrition and summer food programs flowing through state education departments), the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime manages 34 awards for trafficking survivor services, and the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration's Veterans Integrated Service Network 2 and Veterans Integrated Service Network 9 combined for 36 awards. By potential value, the VA awards dominate—VISN 2 and VISN 9 together carry $6.5 million in combined potential value—but the CoC Program anchors the majority of award count; obligated dollars ($170.7 million) significantly exceed potential value, indicating mature, active funding streams.

The Salvation Army holds capacity on five primary VA vehicles: Basic Ordering Agreement VA528BO0323 (14 task orders, $150 thousand combined potential value), Basic Ordering Agreement 36C24218G0001 (9 task orders, $26 thousand combined potential value), and three additional IDCs managing elder care and transitional housing. All VA work operates without set-aside preferences. On the contract side, the organization holds a single-award IDC with Veterans Integrated Service Network 9 for temporary housing services for homeless veterans in Lexington, Kentucky, valued at $2.389 million ceiling through June 30, 2027, and a single-award IDC with VISN 2 for social model adult day health care through July 31, 2028 with a potential value of $800,280.

Representative grant work spans homelessness intervention, veteran supportive services, and trafficking victim assistance. The Salvation Army is the recipient on multiple CoC Program grants from HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development—recent awards include a $587,659 grant (CFDA 14.267, June 1, 2026 through May 31, 2027) supporting permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, and transitional housing in West Nyack, a $677,433 Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP, CFDA 14.276, awarded September 5, 2025) for youth aged 24 and younger, and a $785,534 AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Companion Program grant (CFDA 94.016, awarded September 9, 2025) for service delivery in New Mexico. Under the Department of Justice Services for Trafficking Victims Program (CFDA 16.320), the organization received a $1,188,981 three-year grant (October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027) to enhance housing and supportive services for trafficking survivors in Central Ohio, with emphasis on criminal justice-involved and foreign national survivors, and a $1,200,000 three-year award (October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027) for transitional housing expansion in Western Pennsylvania. The Department of Veterans Affairs awarded the organization a $981,006 Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program grant (CFDA 64.033, October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026) to provide outreach, case management, and temporary financial assistance to very low-income veteran families in Ohio. The organization acts as subrecipient on numerous pass-through grants from state education and social service departments, including child nutrition programs (Connecticut, Ohio, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maine education departments) and victim assistance funding from state attorneys general and victim services offices.

Activity has grown substantially over the past five years—from 35 awards in 2022 to a peak of 128 in 2024, with 61 awards in 2025 and 27 in the first half of 2026. Awards completing in the next twenty-four months carry a combined potential value of $463 thousand, representing modest recompete exposure. The organization's category concentration centers on services for the elderly and persons with disabilities (28 awards), nursing care facilities (20 awards), and temporary shelters (8 awards), reflecting its core capability in aging services, skilled nursing, and homelessness intervention. Prime awards account for 69% of the footprint; the remaining 31% flows through subrecipient positions on state-administered grant programs. The Salvation Army competes across all 33 distinct customer agencies in full-and-open posture without SBA set-aside designations.