Ywca Of Northwest Ohio

YWCA Of Northwest Ohio, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Toledo, Ohio, receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient and sub-recipient to operate domestic violence shelter and victim services, child care resource and referral services, and violence-prevention programming for youth. The organization is entirely grant-funded rather than contract-based; it holds no federal contracts and does not compete on GSA vehicles, GWACs, or other procurement IDVs.

The organization's federal footprint centers on three distinct capability areas grounded in its mission work. First, YWCA operates a 24/7 emergency domestic violence shelter and victim services program, including crisis hotlines, safety planning, case management, housing advocacy, children's advocacy, and legal advocacy for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and rape. Second, it operates child care resource and referral (CCR&R) services across multiple service delivery areas (SDA1, SDA7, SDA12) in partnership with the Ohio Department of Children and Youth. Third, the organization implements violence-prevention programming for youth, most recently Project AMEND Together, a 36-month initiative funded by the Office on Violence Against Women to engage young men and boys ages 12–19 in Toledo public schools in violence prevention and healthy relationships work targeting African American youth.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward two federal agencies, both of which fund the organization through pass-through or direct grants. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families accounts for ten awards (both as a direct funder and through sub-awards), and the Department of Justice accounts for five awards split between the Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime program and the Office on Violence Against Women. The Department of Housing and Urban Development and Ohio state agencies passing federal funds account for the remainder.

On the prime recipient side, YWCA holds a $350,000 Office on Violence Against Women Project Grant (CFDA 16.888) awarded October 1, 2023, running through September 30, 2026 for Project AMEND Together. YWCA also received an Economic Development Initiative Community Project Funding award from HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development dated August 13, 2024, with ultimate completion in August 2032, related to community development activities to be defined in the project narrative. The organization's primary footprint, however, consists of sub-awards: it receives pass-through federal funding from the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services, the Ohio Attorney General's office, the Ohio Department of Children and Youth, and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services for domestic violence victim services, shelter operations, and child care resource and referral programming. Sub-awards active in the past two years include Crime Victim Services funding from the Attorney General (October 1, 2024 and October 1, 2025), CCR&R awards from the Department of Children and Youth (June 9, 2025 across three service delivery areas), and domestic violence shelter and victim services funding from the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services (most recent awards in December 2023 and June 2023).

Activity has been volatile, with six awards in 2023, two in 2024, and four in 2025, across a total footprint of sixteen awards combining $7.9 million obligated. Thirteen of the sixteen awards (87%) are sub-awards; the organization does not serve as a prime contractor on any federal contracts and competes only as a grant recipient.