Young Women's Christian Association Of Billings

Young Women's Christian Association Of Billings Ywca Billings Division, doing business as Ywca Billings, is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Billings, Montana that acts as a federal grant recipient and sub-recipient, delivering transitional housing, domestic-violence shelter services, and supportive services to homeless individuals, families, and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in the Billings area.

Ywca Billings operates primarily as a sub-recipient (59% of recent awards) under pass-through federal grant programs, with a smaller direct-prime grant footprint (41% of awards). The organization receives funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267), the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), and the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families. Prime grant work includes HUD Continuum of Care Project Grants supporting permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, and supportive services — recent awards carry $328,192 (fiscal year 2026), $285,324 (fiscal year 2025), and $263,700 (fiscal year 2024) in HUD funding. Ywca Billings also holds a Department of Justice Transitional Housing Assistance Grant for Victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking (OVW program, effective October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2026) that funds six-to-twenty-four-month transitional housing and survivor-centered support services including rental and utility assistance, case management, childcare, and job training. As a sub-recipient, the organization draws pass-through funding from the Montana Board of Crime Control for shelter services, victim services, and VAWA-program support, with recent sub-award activity in December 2024 and September 2024.

Customer concentration sits with four federal funding agencies. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families leads by award count (12 awards), followed by HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (7 awards), the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (6 awards), and the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime (2 awards). Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $5.3 million. Activity has been modest and variable — four awards in 2022, two in 2023, three in 2024, and one each in 2025 and 2026 — with only two awards reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Ywca Billings does not hold prime positions on federal contracts or contract vehicles and generates no contract revenue; the organization's federal footprint is entirely grant-based, anchored to HUD's homelessness-prevention mission and the Department of Justice's violence-against-women portfolio.