11/25/2025

 

Project Submission Deadline: December 12, 2025, by 8 pm

 

On November 13, 2025, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued the Continuum of Care (CoC) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for 2025 Continuum of Care Funds.

 

IL501 (Winnebago, Boone, & DeKalb Counties applicants are eligible to compete for a combined total of approximately $4 million in new and renewal FY 2025 Continuum of Care (CoC) project funding. In total, $4,036,324 is available for both existing renewals and new project proposals. A major change in this year’s competition is the introduction of community caps on permanent housing (PH). HUD now limits permanent housing to 30% of the CoC’s Annual Renewal Demand (ARD), and Tier 1 is similarly restricted to 30%. Under this new cap, our CoC is eligible to apply for only $833,250 in permanent housing projects this year. Current permanent supportive housing renewals total $2,777,500, which means $1,944,250, in existing PH renewal projects will be transitioned to other program types.

 

The following funds are available for NEW projects:

• A total of $839,216 in CoC Bonus funding is competitively available for one or more transitional housing (TH), Supportive Services Only projects (SSO), or HMIS projects.

• A total of $419,608 in Domestic Violence (DV) bonus funding is competitively available for one more projects serving victims of domestic violence; may only be used to create new SSO-Coordinated Entry or Transitional Housing (TH) projects.

• A total of $193,888 is currently available in reallocated funding from permanent housing projects; this will be limited to SSO, TH and HMIS project funding. In addition, this could increase if the evaluation process leads to the reallocation of any other projects.

 

While you have already received the application for NEW FUNDING, we wanted to reiterate a few things.  If you have a current project that you are going to “reallocate” to another type of program, you must use the NEW application, not the renewal.  Transition grants can only be used for these current programs, switching to another program type.   The only programs at this time that should be applying for RENEWAL grants is the current PSH programs.  For those doing NEW applications—the info in the application was incorrect that noted you did not have to enter in E-snaps until January—there has been an update and that is now required to be done by 12/12 also.

 

Deadline for Project submissions (e-snaps application and local supplemental scoring materials): December 12, 2025, no later than 8pm.  Per the NOFO instructions, e-snaps is required by this deadline; however, as of the time I am writing this, e-snaps is still not available.  It is generally advised you submit your applications in e-snaps prior to this deadline. As this date is also the HUD deadline, the application system will be overwhelmed and historically causes submission issues when used on the due date.  We have no idea when e-snaps will open and be available for our use but I will let everyone know as soon as possible. 

 

Prospective applicants should review the Continuum of Care NOFO in full at: https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/360861  

 

New Applicants: Prior to starting any application materials, if you are interested in this funding opportunity, your organization must have an active sam.gov account with a registered Unique Entity ID (UEI) number. This can take weeks to process and must be done immediately. If you are unable to register your organization to receive a UEI, you will not be able to access the online application from HUD in e-snaps: https://sam.gov/ Additionally, you will need to go to esnaps.hud.gov to sign up for an HUD e-snaps account. 

 

Once you have done that, please reach out to me to schedule and e-snaps training.

 

New project applications can be found by clicking here.

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Renewal project application can be found by clicking here. 

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Completed applications can be emailed to angie.walker@rockfordil.gov.  Again, new projects are greatly encouraged and welcome! Please use the FY FMR posted below for calculations. 

 

Applications are due by 8:00 pm 12/12/2025.  Anything recieved after that will not be accepted. If you have any questions.  Additionally all applications will need to be entered into HUD's E-snap system.  If you are new and/or do not have access, go to esnaps.hud.gov to start the process of getting an account.  This will also have to be completed by 12/12/2025.

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Please reach out to angie.walker@rockfordil.gov or joseph.sculuca@rockfordil.gov. 

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***12/09/2025 UPDATE TO FY2025 NOFO Competition

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On Monday 12/8/2025, the US Department of Housing & Urban Development rescinded the FY2025 NOFO, providing the below information:

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"The Department has withdrawn a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) with respect to the Continuum of Care (CoC) grant program. This withdrawal will allow the Department to make appropriate revisions to the NOFO, and the Department intends to do so. In the previous FY 24-25 NOFO, the Department reserved the right to make changes to the NOFO instead of processing renewals for a variety of reasons, including to accommodate a new CoC or Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) priority or new funding source. The Department still intends to exercise this discretion and make changes to the previously issued CoC NOFO to account for new priorities. HUD anticipates reissuing a modified NOFO well in advance of the deadline for obligation of available Fiscal Year 2025 funds."

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Additionally there was a court hearing yesterday at 2:30, about an hour after HUD removed the NOFO.  In the court hearing, HUD was pushing for a 60+ day response time, Judge Mary McElroy was not having that.  She made mention (and I’m paraphrasing here), that she works overtime, and that we all (meaning us) work overtime.  HUD can now also work overtime.  And said she would give them a week for a response and scheduled the next hearing for the next available date on the court docket (12/19/25). 

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So at this point, there is little known about what the next steps will be.  We will continue to work and plan for our future projects.  

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With that being said, we are continuing our local competition.  The applications (new and renewal) are still due by the original deadline, this Friday 12/12/2025.  However, the entire application does not have to be completed at this time.  

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If you are one of the 4 RENEWAL applicants (ICA, SCM, HACD, Rosecrance), I am asking that you submit pages 1-5 of the project application.  If you are not sure of your budget at this time—just fill in what your total budget request will be. Please sign and date the last page.  

 

If you are a NEW applicant (includes transition grants), I am asking that you submit pages 1-8 of the project application.  If you are not sure of your budget at this time—just fill in what your total budget request will be (or a to be determined (TBD) if you don’t know).  I do not need any narratives at this time (you may skip page 7). Please sign and date the last page.  

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We do reserve the right to ask for further information in the future once we know what the HUD expectations are.  If you have any questions, you may email them to us here.  

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