Unity House Of Troy, Inc.

Unity House Of Troy, Inc., a nonprofit organization headquartered in Troy, New York, is a recipient of federal grants for homelessness prevention and victim services, operating as a prime recipient (94% of awards) with minimal subcontracting footprint. The organization acts exclusively as a federal grant recipient; it holds no federal contracts, IDVs, or contracting vehicle seats, and therefore does not compete in the contract space.

Unity House operates as the sole licensed nonprofit victim services provider serving Rensselaer County, New York, delivering homelessness intervention, transitional housing, domestic violence victim support, and legal services to survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The organization's federal grant portfolio centers on two primary capability areas: homelessness services (permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, and supportive case management) and victim-centered legal and housing assistance for survivors of gender-based violence.

Federal grant funding is concentrated with HUD and Department of Justice agencies. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (HUD CPCD) accounts for 87 of 109 prime awards and funds the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267), which underwrites the bulk of Unity House's ongoing operations in permanent supportive housing and transitional housing provision. Representative CoC awards include a $3.061 million project grant (April 2026–March 2027) and a $111,963 award (April 2026–March 2027) for homelessness prevention and housing assistance. The Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) is the second-largest funding source, with 16 awards across two programs: the Transitional Housing Assistance for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Stalking, or Sexual Assault program (CFDA 16.736), represented by a $500,000 award (October 2025–September 2028) providing scattered-site transitional housing for 15 survivors and their families, and the Legal Assistance for Victims program (CFDA 16.524), continuing a legal assistance project through September 2027. The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs—Victims of Crime office funds the Emergency and Transitional Pet Shelter and Housing Assistance Grant Program, supporting expansion of transitional housing services and temporary companion animal shelter in partnership with the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society and Heartsherd Animal Sanctuary, running through September 2026. Unity House also received a $675,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) for its PEACE (Prevention, Education, Awareness, Community & Empowerment) Program (October 2021–September 2025), delivering violence reduction and trauma-informed treatment to at-risk youth ages 12–17 in collaboration with Trinity Alliance SNUG anti-violence initiative.

Grant activity has been steady over the past five years, with eight awards in both 2022 and 2023, declining to six in 2024, five in 2025, and three to date in 2026. Four awards carrying ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months will face recompete; none of the organization's federal work sits on contracting vehicles, so recompete exposure is limited to grant application cycles. Unity House also receives sub-award funding from New York State agencies (Office of Victim Services, Office of Mental Health, Division of Criminal Justice Services, Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services) under STOP VAWA, Adult Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), and Victim Assistance programs, functioning as a sub-recipient rather than pursuing independent state grant opportunities.