Westcare California, Inc.

Westcare California, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Fresno, California, acts as a federal grant recipient delivering housing assistance, case management, employment services, and substance use disorder and mental health treatment to vulnerable populations across California. The organization is a child entity of Westcare Foundation, Inc., and operates primarily as a direct recipient of federal grants (88% of recent awards) rather than as a contractor, with limited sub-recipient activity in grant programs managed by the City of Fresno.

Westcare California's federal capability footprint centers on three core service areas. Housing and homelessness services form the largest component, delivered through HUD Continuum of Care (CoC) Program grants (CFDA 14.267) that fund permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, and case management for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. Veteran-focused programs comprise the second major area: the organization holds multiple awards under the VA Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program (SSVF, CFDA 64.033), providing outreach, case management, VA benefits assistance, and temporary financial assistance for very low-income veteran families; the VA Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program (GPD, CFDA 64.024) for veteran case management; the Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program (CFDA 64.055) delivering community-based suicide prevention and crisis linkage for veterans; and the Department of Labor's Homeless Veterans' Reintegration Program (HVRP, CFDA 17.805) providing job training, employment placement, and wraparound support to homeless and at-risk veterans. Substance use disorder and mental health treatment services, funded through SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment grants (CFDA unspecified in source), support medication-assisted treatment expansion for opioid use disorder populations and adolescent substance use and mental health treatment in Kings County. The organization also operates The Living Room, a housing and supportive services project for low-income individuals living with HIV in Fresno County, funded through HUD formula grants for HIV housing assistance.

Customer concentration is heavily dominated by VA and HUD programs. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration and affiliated entities account for 31 awards (covering both the Under Secretary for Health and Veterans Integrated Service Network 21); HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development accounts for 24 awards. Together these two agencies represent 80% of recent award volume. The Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Department of Labor Veterans Employment and Training Service, and a small number of sub-recipient relationships with the City of Fresno complete the customer base. The source shows $133.1 million in combined obligated dollars across all awards, though the combined potential value listing of $200 thousand appears to reflect only a subset of awards in the source data and does not represent the full portfolio value.

Award activity has grown substantially in recent years, rising from seven awards in 2022 to fifteen in 2025, though only two awards appear in the first months of 2026. Eleven awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing significant recompete opportunity in HUD CoC, VA SSVF, and SAMHSA substance abuse treatment programs. Representative recent grants include an $8.1 million VA SSVF award (October 1, 2025–September 30, 2026) for comprehensive housing-focused services to veteran families; a $750,000 VA Suicide Prevention Grant (October 1, 2025–September 30, 2026) for outreach and crisis linkage; a $400,000 Department of Labor HVRP award (July 1, 2025–June 30, 2028) for employment and supportive services to 100 homeless or at-risk veterans annually in Fresno and Madera Counties with a target of 60% job placement at $23.07 per hour; multiple HUD CoC grants ranging from $281,276 to $632,044 (September 2025–August 2026) for rapid rehousing and permanent supportive housing in Fresno; and SAMHSA grants including a five-year medication-assisted treatment expansion program (September 30, 2021–September 29, 2026) targeting underserved Latinx and Black populations with opioid addiction in Fresno County and a five-year adolescent substance use and mental health treatment program in Kings County (September 30, 2021–September 29, 2026). Sub-recipient awards from the City of Fresno include HOPWA activities and Project Unite extensions dating from 2024–2026.