United States Veterans Initiative

United States Veterans Initiative U.S.VETS - Inland Empire Division is a tax-exempt nonprofit community development corporation based in California that operates transitional housing and supportive services for homeless veterans as a prime recipient of federal grants and a prime contractor on Department of Veterans Affairs delivery orders, competing under full-and-open (non-set-aside) procurement.

U.S.VETS - Inland Empire is a subsidiary division of the parent organization United States Veterans Initiative, headquartered in Los Angeles. The organization has held SAM.gov registration since 2008 and operates under tax-exempt nonprofit structure across both contract and grant funding streams. Its concrete service portfolio centers on 15-bed transitional housing facilities, comprehensive case management, health improvement services, employment assistance, vocational training, and transitions-to-permanent-housing support targeting homeless and at-risk veterans in the Riverside and San Bernardino region of California. The vendor delivers these services across three distinct federal funding channels: a Department of Veterans Affairs indefinite-delivery contract, Department of Housing and Urban Development Continuum of Care (CoC) Program grants, and Department of Labor veteran employment and training grants.

On the contract side, U.S.VETS - Inland Empire holds a single-award VA indefinite-delivery contract (IDC 36C26222D0017) valued at $4.3 million, running through March 30, 2027, under which the Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 has issued five firm fixed-price delivery orders since 2022. Representative delivery orders include a $687,225 order awarded March 31, 2022; an $835,533 order awarded March 31, 2023; an $860,626 order awarded March 31, 2024; and an $886,950 order awarded March 31, 2026 — all structured as annual renewals for operation of the 15-bed facility serving the VA Loma Linda Healthcare System. Combined potential value across all five task orders stands at $4.2 million.

Grant funding dominates the vendor's recent activity. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded U.S.VETS - Inland Empire four consecutive Continuum of Care Program grants (CFDA 14.267) from fiscal year 2022 through 2026, with recent awards of $1.3 million (FY2024, effective October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024), $1.4 million (FY2025, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025), and $1.8 million (FY2026, effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026). Additionally, the Department of Labor's Veterans Employment and Training Service awarded U.S.VETS - Inland Empire a project grant on July 1, 2023 (completion date June 30, 2026) to deliver comprehensive employment services, training, retraining, and career-center support to homeless and at-risk veterans, including job skills training, vocational assessment, resume development, interview preparation, and employment retention counseling.

Customer concentration is moderate and agency-focused. The top four customer agencies account for 93 percent of recent awards: the Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (14 awards), the Department of Labor Veterans Employment and Training Service (7 awards), the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 (6 awards, $8.5 million combined potential value), and the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration (1 award). The VA VISN 22 holds virtually all contract dollar value; HUD and DOL drive grant-award volume. Three awards totaling $1.7 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore present recompete exposure.

Service Contract Inventory data reflects limited SCI-reportable federal service-contract activity. From fiscal year 2023 through 2024, U.S.VETS - Inland Empire invoiced approximately $1.6 million across federal service contracts captured in SCI, deploying roughly 7.7 FTEs in FY2024. On federal services contracts reported to SCI, median government-paid hourly rates ran around $53/hr, with a spectrum from approximately $52/hr at the tenth percentile through $58/hr at the ninety-percentile, reflecting case management and supportive-services labor pricing. The vendor performs all work with its own staff; across SCI-reportable prime contracts, no subcontractor hours are reported. U.S.VETS - Inland Empire operates as a 93 percent prime vendor (28 of 30 awards) with minimal subcontractor engagement; the two sub awards in the portfolio represent grants received under larger federal pass-throughs rather than contract subcontracting relationships.