Ywca Missoula

Ywca Missoula, a Montana-based nonprofit organization, is a federal grant recipient operating as the prime recipient on homelessness-intervention and domestic-violence support grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Justice, and as a sub-recipient on additional federal grant awards flowing through state grantees including the Montana Board of Crime Control. The organization does not hold federal contracts or contract vehicles.

Ywca Missoula's federal footprint is grant-dominated and heavily weighted toward sub-recipient status: ten prime grant awards (33% of the thirty total awards in the source data) and twenty sub-awards (67%), with combined obligations of $5.5 million across all federal sources. The capability portfolio centers on emergency shelter, case management, trauma-informed counseling, legal services, and homelessness prevention for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and their dependents across western Montana communities spanning more than seven thousand square miles, including Missoula, Mineral, Granite, and portions of Lake, Ravalli, and Glacier Counties, as well as the Flathead and Blackfeet Indian Reservations.

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families leads the customer count with thirteen awards, followed by the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (five awards), the Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (five awards), the DOJ Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime (three awards), and the DOJ Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (three awards) — together accounting for 97% of awards. Prime grant work includes three consecutive-year Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267) awards from HUD for rapid rehousing and homelessness prevention services: $334,050 (fiscal year ending August 31, 2024), $359,418 (FY 2025), and $413,564 (FY 2026); a Justice for Families Program grant from the DOJ Office on Violence Against Women (CFDA not specified) supporting supervised visitation, safe exchange, domestic violence court coordination, and civil legal assistance across four western Montana counties, with partnership through Ries Law Group, the University of Montana School of Law, and Missoula County Justice Court; and a Victims of Crime Act grant (award date October 1, 2022, completion August 31, 2025) for pet-friendly shelter modifications enabling survivors to remain with companion animals in partnership with the Humane Society of Western Montana. Sub-recipient work flows primarily through the Montana Board of Crime Control, delivering shelter services, crisis response, advocacy, therapy, youth leadership programming, and sexual assault survivor support. Activity trajectory shows volatility — six awards in 2021, two in 2022, seven in 2023, four in 2024, and two in 2025 — with only two awards (combined potential value not specified in the source) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months.