Ywca West Central Michigan

Ywca West Central Michigan, a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, operates as a federal grant recipient focused on homelessness prevention, domestic violence services, and sexual assault support, with 65% of its recent federal awards routed through state and local pass-through entities rather than direct federal funding.

The organization's federal footprint centers on HUD's Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267), where it has received nine direct Project Grants totaling approximately $3.7 million across the past four years. Representative CoC awards include a $407,518 grant effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2026, a $399,368 award for the period January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025, and a $548,606 grant spanning June 1, 2024 through May 31, 2025. These direct HUD awards support permanent supportive housing for persons with disabilities, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, and Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS) operations in Wyoming and Grand Rapids, Michigan. The organization delivers eligible CoC activities including real property acquisition and rehabilitation, new construction, rental assistance, case management, and operational costs necessary to establish and operate housing and support service projects.

Ywca West Central Michigan's broader federal engagement occurs predominantly through sub-grants passed down by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, which accounts for the majority of the organization's 53 sub-awards. These sub-grants fund domestic violence family services under the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA), domestic violence emergency shelter through TANF and Michigan State Housing Development Authority funding, sexual assault comprehensive services, transitional supportive housing, supervised visitation and safe exchange services for crime victims, and domestic violence victims services under the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA). The organization also receives sub-grant funding from the City of Grand Rapids for victim services coordination staffing. Recent sub-grants awarded October 1, 2024 and October 1, 2025 span supervised visitation services, transitional housing, sexual assault services, and VOCA victim services, with prior-year awards including CARES Act housing support dating to October 2021.

Customer concentration reflects a specialized victim-services and homelessness posture. HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development leads by award count (23 awards), followed by the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs' Victims of Crime office (18 awards) and the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (24 awards combined across two related offices). The Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women rounds out the top five (9 awards). These six distinct customer agencies account for 90% of the organization's recent awards. Activity peaked in 2023 with 29 awards, then moderated to 16 awards in 2024 and 8 in 2025, with only 1 award recorded in 2026 to date. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, reducing near-term recompete exposure. The organization's combined obligated dollars across all 82 awards in the source data total $15.5 million, reflecting the sub-grant-dominated structure where individual pass-through awards carry modest dollar values relative to the multi-year operational impact on homeless and domestic-violence survivor services in west central Michigan.