Three Oaks Homeless Shelter Inc.

Three Oaks Homeless Shelter Inc., doing business as Three Oaks Center, is a tax-exempt nonprofit providing comprehensive homeless services and supportive housing to vulnerable populations—particularly veterans and low-income families—as a federal grant recipient based in Lexington Park, Maryland. The organization operates exclusively through federal grants, not contracts; it is a prime recipient on HUD Continuum of Care (CoC) Program awards and Department of Veterans Affairs Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) Program grants, with occasional sub-recipient status on state-level CoC sub-awards.

Three Oaks Center's service portfolio spans five authorized CoC program components: permanent supportive housing and rapid rehousing for persons with disabilities, transitional housing, supportive services only, Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) infrastructure, and homelessness prevention activities. Core services include street outreach, case management, assistance obtaining VA and public benefits, temporary financial assistance for housing-related costs including rent, utilities, security deposits, and moving expenses, legal aid services, and housing-first implementation. Under SSVF grants, the organization provides outreach, case management, VA benefits assistance, public benefits coordination, and temporary third-party financial assistance for childcare, emergency housing, transportation, rental payments, utility costs, deposits, and general housing stability.

HUD's Community Planning and Development office dominates the funding footprint. The Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development accounts for 37 of 55 total awards (67% of awards), anchored by recurring CoC Program (CFDA 14.267) Project Grants averaging $161 thousand to $266 thousand per award, with ultimate completion dates typically running twelve months from award date. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration supplies 13 awards (24%) under the SSVF Program (CFDA 64.033), with grant values in the $220 thousand to $541 thousand range. Recent representative awards include four staggered HUD CoC grants effective November 1, 2025 through October 31, 2026 ($161,842, $253,611, and two others), a $497,308 VA SSVF grant effective September 30, 2025 through September 30, 2026, and multiple prior-year CoC and SSVF awards running through fiscal 2024 and fiscal 2025.

Activity has remained relatively flat—three awards per year in 2021–2022, then increasing to nine awards annually in 2023–2024, with eight awards awarded in 2025 to date. Six awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and face recompete. The organization also receives sub-awards from the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development for HMIS operational costs supporting the MD-514 Balance of State Continuum of Care (awarded October 2024 and October 2023). Across its prime footprint, Three Oaks Center competes exclusively under non-set-aside federal grant programs; all work is federal grant-funded and directed at community-level homelessness prevention and rapid rehousing in Lexington Park and surrounding Maryland regions, with no federal contracting posture and no presence on procurement vehicles.