United Communities Against Poverty, Inc.

United Communities Against Poverty, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit community development corporation headquartered in Capitol Heights, Maryland, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, and housing counseling services to homeless and low-to-moderate-income individuals and families in the Capitol Heights and Prince George's County, Maryland area. The organization acts primarily as a prime recipient (76% of awards) on HUD grants, with additional work routed through subrecipient arrangements on Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) programs.

The federal customer base is sharply concentrated in HUD. The Department of Housing and Urban Development accounts for 57 of 76 total awards across two divisions: the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, which issued 55 Continuum of Care (CoC) Program grants (CFDA 14.267), and the Assistant Secretary for Housing Federal Housing Commissioner, which issued 2 Housing Counseling Assistance Program grants. A single Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration award rounds out the three-agency footprint. HUD's CoC funding anchors recent activity, with recurring annual awards between $209,426 and $497,718 supporting eligible components including permanent supportive housing for persons with disabilities, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services only, and Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) operations. Recent CoC prime awards include a $497,718 Project Grant covering April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2027; a $258,286 Project Grant covering July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027; and a $261,084 Project Grant covering October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. Combined potential value across all 76 awards totals $13.4 million, reflecting the modest but consistent scale of HUD's CoC program funding to this recipient.

In its subrecipient role, United Communities Against Poverty operates CDBG-funded initiatives including property acquisition and rehabilitation for first-time homebuyers, energy efficiency retrofits, weatherization services, housing counseling, foreclosure mediation and mortgage modification assistance, and community revitalization programming. Recent CDBG sub-awards span staff costs for the Community Revitalization Program, rehabilitation of vacant properties in Landover, Maryland, energy savings for low-to-moderate-income households, renovation of a historic building into a cultural and training center with projected benefit to approximately 2,000 individuals, and housing counseling for roughly 150 first-time and distressed homeowners in English and Spanish. Subrecipient grant work predates the prime grant footprint, with the earliest documented sub-award dating to July 2021 for housing counseling, followed by emergency food pantry support and COVID-relief community navigator activities.

Activity remains relatively stable at 5 to 7 awards per year over the past five years, with a dip to 3 awards in 2025 followed by recovery to 7 awards in 2026. Only 3 awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, suggesting limited recompete pressure in the near term. The organization's federal footprint is non-competitive: no federal contracts or contract IDVs are present in the source; all work routes through grant recipients and subrecipient positions on HUD programs, reflecting the nonprofit community development corporation's mission alignment with HUD's homelessness and housing stability objectives.