Westmoreland Human Opportunities, Inc.

Westmoreland Human Opportunities, Inc., doing business as Westmoreland Human Opportunities, is a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit community action agency that operates as a federal grant recipient, delivering Head Start early childhood education, homelessness prevention and supportive housing, and workforce development services to low-income households in Westmoreland County. The organization acts as both prime recipient (58% of recent awards) and sub-recipient of federal grants (42%), with no federal contract footprint.

Westmoreland Human Opportunities operates out of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, as a tax-exempt nonprofit. The organization's federal grant work spans three distinct capability areas grounded in concrete awards: early childhood education through Head Start and Early Head Start programs; homelessness intervention and permanent supportive housing through the Continuum of Care Program; and workforce training for economically disadvantaged residents and individuals in recovery from substance use disorder. Representative prime recipient work includes a $10.157 million five-year Head Start and Early Head Start award from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (CFDA 93.600, awarded July 1, 2026, running through June 30, 2031), which funds educational, health, nutritional, social, and family support services for 3- and 4-year-old children, infants, toddlers, and pregnant women. The organization also holds multiple Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267) awards totaling over $2.5 million from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, including a $695,300 award (October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026) and a $458,390 award (January 1 through December 31, 2026) for permanent housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, and homeless management information systems serving youth and vulnerable populations. The organization also received a $103,328 workforce training grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission (CFDA 23.002) for October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024.

Customer concentration is extreme and bifurcated. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development accounts for 69 awards (48% of the portfolio), and the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service accounts for 48 awards (34% of the portfolio), together representing 93% of recent awards. The Agriculture awards reflect sub-recipient reimbursements through Pennsylvania Department of Education for the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), where the organization receives cash value for meals served in lieu of direct commodity storage. The HUD awards reflect the organization's dominant operational footprint in homelessness services. The remaining customer agencies—Department of Health and Human Services (11 awards across Administration for Children and Families), Department of Housing and Urban Development Housing Federal Housing Commissioner, Pennsylvania Department of Education (direct), Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, and the Appalachian Regional Commission—account for the balance.

Recent activity shows growth from ten awards in 2022 to twenty in 2026 (year to date). The organization faces five award completions within the next twenty-four months, all likely Continuum of Care or CACFP sub-awards with December 2026 through September 2026 ultimate completion dates. The organization's sub-recipient relationships route through the Pennsylvania Department of Education (CACFP reimbursements), Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (Community Services Block Grant funding), and Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (substance use disorder employment support), signaling state-intermediated rather than direct-federal sub-award activity. Combined dollars obligated across all 143 awards (prime and sub) total $160.6 million, concentrated in homelessness services and child nutrition programming rather than workforce or economic development, which together account for a small share of volume and dollars.