Federal contractor · DES MOINES, IA

CENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES

CENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES received $140.3K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 3 awards (+54% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $712.4K. Its largest customer was Department of Veterans Affairs ($140.3K). It also received $326.7K in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$140.3K
New awards
3
Sole-source
0.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
CNB6UBJY7NN8
Other than small businessNonprofit
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 60.6KFY2017
  2. 69.6KFY2018
  3. 73.9KFY2019
  4. 8.2KFY2020
  5. 73.7KFY2021
  6. 64KFY2022
  7. 56.5KFY2023
  8. 74.7KFY2024
  9. 90.9KFY2025
  10. 140.3KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs$140.3K100%
    3 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Education & social services$140.3K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Polk County, IA$140.3K100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition0.0%
    US 39% · $0
  • Sole-source awards0.0%
    US 30% · $0
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

  1. HEALTH CARE FOR HOMELESS VETERANS FINAL TASK ORDER TO SUPPORT DES MOINES VA$98.6K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Polk County, IA· Education & social services· May 14, 2026 – May 14, 2026· 36C26326N0522
  2. ORDER PERIOD 5 HEALTH CARE FOR HOMELESS VETERANS- DES MOINES$91K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Polk County, IA· Education & social services· Dec 4, 2024 – Feb 5, 2026· 36C26325N0303
  3. FAR 52.217-8 EXT 6 MONTHS HEALTH CARE FOR HOMELESS VETERANS$49.3K
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Polk County, IA· Education & social services· Dec 5, 2025 – Dec 5, 2025· 36C26326N0285

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

CENTRAL IOWA SHELTER & SERVICES received $326.7K in federal assistance in FY2026, on 2 actions (0 new awards). Its largest program was 64.024 · Va Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program ($326.7K).

Assistance · FY2026
$326.7K
New awards
0
Actions
2
Since FY2021
$2.9M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 193.7KFY2021
  2. 476.1KFY2022
  3. 767.6KFY2023
  4. 1.2MFY2024
  5. -50KFY2025
  6. 326.7KFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$326.7K100%

Top programs

  1. 64.024 · Va Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program$326.7K100%

Awarding agencies

  1. Under Secretary for Health/Veterans Health Administration$326.7K100%
    Department of Veterans Affairs

Largest awards

  1. VA IS PROVIDING PER DIEM FUNDING TO ASSIST WITH THE OPERATIONAL COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH TRANSITIONAL HOUSING BEDS FOR HOMELESS VETERANS.$638.7K
    64.024 · Va Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem Program· Under Secretary for Health/Veterans Health Administration· Project grant· Aug 28, 2023 – Nov 14, 2025· CISS212-5059-636A6-PD-24

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $4.6M (3 subawards)

2 primes

  1. IOWA FINANCE AUTHORITY$4.3M94%
    DES MOINES, IA · 2 subawards
  2. CITY OF DES MOINES$290K6.3%
    DES MOINES, IA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $275.5K received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $864.2K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $372.8K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $349.8K received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $548.8K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $4.6M received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

2 companies · $7M reported

  1. IOWA FINANCE AUTHORITY$6.4M
    DES MOINES, IA · 11 subawards
  2. CITY OF DES MOINES$601.7K
    DES MOINES, IA · 2 subawards

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. SAMARITAN HOUSE, INC.$305.2K−37% in FY2026
    KALISPELL, MT · 99.7% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Community food and housing, and emergency and other relief services
  2. THE SALVATION ARMY$308.8K−29% in FY2026
    NORFOLK, VA · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Community food and housing, and emergency and other relief services
  3. LOVE N KINDNESS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$311.7K+34% in FY2026
    DETROIT, MI · 100% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveVeterans Affairs · Community food and housing, and emergency and other relief services

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Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.