Under 21

Under 21, doing business as Covenant House New York, is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in New York that serves as a prime recipient of federal grants supporting homeless youth housing, transitional services, and behavioral health care delivery. The organization operates as a child entity under the parent nonprofit Covenant House International and has received 110 prime federal grants (99% of recent awards) concentrated in the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Continuum of Care Program and the Department of Health and Human Services' health service initiatives.

Covenant House New York's federal grant portfolio centers on housing and supportive services for runaway, homeless, and at-risk youth, with service delivery concentrated in New York City. The Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267) accounts for the vast majority of the organization's awards and dollar volume — recent COC grants include a $2,992,050 project grant awarded October 1, 2025, running through September 30, 2026, and a $2,888,871 award from the prior fiscal year, both funding permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, rapid rehousing, and homeless management information systems. A supplementary $159,600 COC award completes the current funding cycle. Beyond housing, Covenant House New York holds behavioral health service grants from HHS's Bureau of Primary Health Care, including a $600,000 FY 2024 award for mental health and opioid use disorder treatment expansion, an FY 2023 Bridge Access Program grant for primary care expansion, and an FY 2021 Ending the HIV Epidemic — Primary Care HIV Prevention award running through August 31, 2025. The organization also received a $3.2 million Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime grant (October 2022 through September 2025) to provide 6 to 24 months of transitional housing and support services to approximately 150 youth trafficking victims annually, including training and technical assistance to partner providers across New York City and beyond.

Customer concentration is extreme — HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development accounts for 89 awards (80% of the recent portfolio by count), with HHS's Health Resources and Services Administration contributing 10 to 14 awards depending on deduplication. The combined obligated dollars across all 111 awards in the source total $112 million. Award frequency has declined from 6 awards annually in 2022 and 2023 to 3 in 2024 and 2 in 2025; the most recent award is dated October 1, 2025. Covenant House New York operates a single sub-award relationship — a FEMA assistance sub-grant from the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (awarded August 2, 2022, and closed). Performance takes place primarily in New York, New York, with satellite operations in the Bronx.