Federal grant programs / Department of Housing and Urban Development

Continuum of Care Program (14.267)

Also known as See Notice of Funding Opportunity [NOFO] for additional information.

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$14 billion
• Grant awards31,952
• Typical award$217,589
• Awarded in FY 2025$3.4 billion
• Size rank42 of 1824
• Type of assistanceProject grants, direct payments for specified use

Key findings

• Annual funding rose from $2.5 billion in fiscal 2021 to $3.4 billion in fiscal 2025.
• It is the 42nd largest of 1,824 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• The 20 largest recipients received 23% of the money.
• Awards went to recipients in 54 states and territories.

What the program funds

The program is designed to promote community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness; provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, States, and local governments to quickly house homeless individuals and families while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused to homeless individuals, families, and communities by homelessness; promote access to and effective utilization of mainstream programs by homeless individuals and families; and optimize self-sufficiency among individuals and families experiencing homelessness. Continuum of Care Program funds may be used to pay for the eligible costs used to establish and operate projects under five program components: (i) permanent housing, which includes permanent supportive housing for persons with disabilities, and rapid rehousing; (ii) transitional housing; (iii) supportive services only; (iv) Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS), and (v) in some cases, homelessness prevention.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

States, local governments, other governmental entities and nonprofit organizations.

What the money can and cannot pay for

Thirteen types of assistance may be provided through the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program: (1) CoC planning activities/costs for designing and carrying out a collaborative process for the development of an application to HUD; (2) United Funding Agency (UFA) costs for fiscal control and accounting necessary to assure the proper disbursal of, and accounting for, Federal funds awarded to subrecipients under the Continuum of Care Program, (3) acquisition of real property (including structures) for use in the provision of housing or supportive services; (4) rehabilitation of structures to provide housing or supportive services; (5) new construction, including the building of a new structure or building an addition to an existing structure for use as supportive housing; (6) leasing of a structure or structures, or portions thereof, to provide housing or supportive services; (7) rental assistance, which may be short-term, medium-term, or long-term, as well as tenant-based, project-based, or sponsor-based, for transitional or permanent housing; (8) Supportive services to assist program participants obtain and maintain housing; (9) Operating costs of supportive housing; (10) costs of implementing and operating HMIS; (11) Project administrative costs; (12) relocation costs; and (13) indirect costs in accordance with 2 CFR Parts 200, as applicable.

Continue reading on SAM.gov

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. This is a competitive program, however each community's Need amount is established by formula set forth in the CoC Regulations. The recipient or subrecipient must match all grant funds, except for leasing funds, with no less than 25 percent of cash funds or in-kind contributions from other sources. For Continuum of Care geographic areas in which there is more than one grant agreement, the 25 percent match must be provided on a grant-by-grant basis. Recipients that are UFAs or are the sole recipient for their Continuum may provide match on a Continuum-wide basisMOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Award range and average, in the agency's words

HUD imposes the following limitations: Funding of up to 75 percent for acquisition, new construction, rehabilitation, supportive services, operating, and HMIS costs; funding for up to 10 percent for project administration costs; and indirect costs may be allocated to each eligible activity as long as that allocation is consistent with an indirect cost rate proposal developed in accordance with 2 CFR 200, as applicable.

Examples of funded projects

Fiscal Year2022: Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) project in New Mexico - $261,744 – funds for rental assistance and supportive services; Joint Transitional Housing – Rapid Rehousing (Joint TH – PH-RRH) project in Oregon - $834,884 – funds for leasing a structure, rental assistance, supportive services, and operating; Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) project in Virginia - $432,821 – funds for leasing units, supportive services, and operating; Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) project in Massachusetts - $608,490 – funds for HMIS costs; Planning Costs grant in Illinois - $26,000 – funds to cover eligible planning costs.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Who usually wins

State and local governments received 10% of the money.

By state

Each state below has its own page for this program, with its recipients and yearly totals.

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.