Yakima Neighborhood Health Services

Yakima Neighborhood Health Services is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization based in Yakima, Washington that receives federal grants as a prime recipient to operate homeless assistance, healthcare access, and employment support programs across the Continuum of Care (CoC), primary care health center infrastructure, and supported employment portfolios. The organization operates exclusively as a grant recipient, with no federal contract prime or subcontract footprint and no parent vehicle participation; the vendor holds a Federally Qualified Health Center designation and competes in federal grant competitions rather than contract vehicles.

The customer concentration is extreme and monolithic. HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development funds 69 of 96 total awards (72% of the award count), overwhelmingly through the Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267). The Department of Health and Human Services — split across Health Resources and Services Administration (15 awards combined) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (1 award) — accounts for the second tier of funding, with the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service contributing seven awards. The organization's federal grant footprint centers on homelessness intervention and housing stability. Recent CoC Program awards include a $630,769 recipient grant for permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, and Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) operations (January 1 through December 31, 2026); a $199,447 recipient grant for permanent housing and homelessness prevention services (November 1, 2025 through October 31, 2026); and a $171,966 recipient grant for CoC program services in housing and support infrastructure (April 1 through March 31, 2027). The organization also acts as a grant recipient under the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Transforming Lives Through Supported Employment Program, a five-year $570,000 grant (September 30, 2024 through September 29, 2029) to provide Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model employment services to 75 homeless individuals annually with serious mental illness or co-occurring disorders. Secondary HHS grant work includes health center infrastructure support and vaccination expansion initiatives under the Bureau of Primary Health Care.

The organization functions as a sub-recipient on 12 awards (12% of total), all routed through the Washington State Department of Health. These sub-awards cover WIC client services contracts, housing assistance for people living with HIV, and breastfeeding peer counseling programs funded by the USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services. Activity has remained steady at five to eleven awards annually over the past five years, with seven awards reaching completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating renewal and recompete exposure in the CoC and supported employment grant cycles. The organization operates programs serving Yakima Valley residents experiencing homelessness, housing instability, and complex behavioral health needs, with bilingual English- and Spanish-language service delivery and a focus on peer counselor and employment specialist staffing models aligned with federal homelessness intervention objectives.