HUD NOFO update
The HUD FY26 NOFO was ruled to be vacated. The August 2026 Deadline has been rescinded as a result. We are closely monitoring the situation and will offer updates as they come.
HUD 2026 NOFO
On June 1, 2026 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued the Continuum of Care (CoC) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for 2026 Continuum of Care Funds.
IL-501 (Winnebago, Boone, & DeKalb Counties applicants are eligible to compete for funding for new and renewal projects.
A major change in this year’s competition is that HUD now limits Tier 1 funding to 60% of total funding. Other changes are still under review.
There will be NEW funding available under the CoC Bonus and/or Domestic Violence (DV) bonus. Available grants will be for Permanent Supportive Housing, Rapid Rehousing, Transitional housing, Supportive Services only (CES, Outreach), and HMIS.
Applications will be available soon for both renewal and new applications. Final applications are due to HUD on August 26, 2026. We will post more info as we have it. FUNDING IS AVAILABLE TO NEW APPLICANTS.
The Continuum of Care (CoC) Program is a national competition between geographic areas designed to:
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promote a community-wide commitment to the goal of ending homelessness;
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provide funding for efforts by nonprofit providers, States, Indian Tribes or Tribally Designated Housing Entities [as defined in section 4 of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4103) (TDHEs)], and local governments to quickly rehouse homeless individuals and families, persons experiencing trauma or a lack of safety related to, or fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and homeless youth while minimizing the trauma and dislocation caused by homelessness;
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promote access to, and effective utilization of, mainstream programs and programs
funded with State or local resources; and
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optimize self-sufficiency among homeless individuals and families.
On an annual basis, the Northern Illinois Homeless Coalition (NIHC), also known as the IL-501 Continuum of Care (hereafter, CoC) competes with other communities across the US to keep funding for current projects and obtain funding for new projects. The full funding application is submitted annually to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by the collaborative applicant after holding an internal competition for both renewal and new projects.
All projects with intent to receive funding through the Continuum of Care program must participate in the NIHC internal competition.
Eligible applicants include not-for-profit corporations and agencies of government in accordance with notice CPD-2600-DC-0025 (FY2026 Continuum of Care Notice of Funding Opportunity pages 9 – 12). Nonprofit organizations must have supporting documentation (see scoring guide threshold requirements). For-profit entities are not eligible to apply for grants or to be subrecipients of grant funds.
Applicants from organizations that have never received CoC funding or applicants requesting funding for a project type that is not currently available in the CoC system (eg. recovery or sober living) are encouraged to apply.
A faith-based organization may apply on the same basis as any other organization, subject to the requirements in 24 CFR 5.109, and receive the full protections for religion in Federal law, including the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses of the Constitution, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (42 U.S.C. § 2000bb-1), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e-1(a), 2000e-2(e), and the Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. § 12113(d)). HUD does not engage in any unlawful and improper conduct, policies, or practices that target faith-based organizations.
HUD has not released all of their final information yet, so we do not have final funding amounts for new projects but we do expect to have funds available for both new bonus funding and DV bonus funding. As soon as we have this info we will let you know. All information is subject to change based on changes with the federal government and any potential litigation that is happening. While we believe that the applications attached are complete, we may also need to request additional information prior to the final decisions. For more complete HUD guidance, feel free to review the NOFO documentation at https://www.hud.gov/sites/dfiles/CPD/documents/CoC/FY2026-CoC-Program-NOFO.pdf.
Both applications are available for the new project funding and renewal projects. A separate application needs to be done for each program. If you are requesting reallocated fund or a transition grant, you should complete the New Project Application.
ALL APPLICATIONS (WITH ATTACHMENTS) ARE DUE TO angie.walker@rockfordil.gov NO LATER THAN 5:00 ON JULY 22, 2026. No late applications will be accepted. Any further information will be posted here, so please check back.
For FY2026 Renewal Project Application, click here.
For FY2026 New Project Application, click here.
**Additional document needed--please also send with your application if you are applying for housing units in any new/renewal applications. Click here.
Timeline and Key Due Dates
July 1, 2026 Internal Competition Application is Released
July 2, 2026 Internal Competition Policy approved by board
July 22, 2026 Internal Competition Application is Due
July 31, 2026 Applicants Notified of Ranking & Scoring
August 1, 2026 Any new applicants should have reach out to the Collaborative applicant to schedule E-snaps training.
August 7, 2026 Appeals Due (if applicable)
August 11, 2026 Final notifications of acceptance, denials, and ranking of all new & renewal grants. Social media postings for public.
August 19, 2026 All new & renewal applications entered into E-Snaps for review.
August 26, 2026 Collaborative Application Submitted to HUD by Collaborative Applicant
Internal Competition Policy--Click here
Ranking & Scoring Tool--Click here
Grant Inventory Worksheet--Click here
**7/21/2026--E-Snaps has opened for new and renewal project applications. Please go in and set up your projects for completion. Remember, if you are a new applicant, you must go to enaps.hud.gov to create an account. All project applications will have to be entered into the system. Reach out to angie.walker@rockfordil.gov by 8/1/26 to schedule a training.
For more info on E-Snaps:
https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/6171/esnaps-201-toolkit/
For help setting up an e-snaps project, click here .
2025 HUD CoC NOFA Application - New Projects
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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
Renewal project application can be found by clicking here.
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.
Please reach out to angie.walker@rockfordil.gov or joseph.sculuca@rockfordil.gov.
***12/09/2025 UPDATE TO FY2025 NOFO Competition
On Monday 12/8/2025, the US Department of Housing & Urban Development rescinded the FY2025 NOFO, providing the below information:
"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."
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
2025 FY FMR
Winnebago/Boone County
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DeKalb County
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11/18/2025 Timeline for NOFO FY2025
11/13/2025 FY2025 NOFO Released
12/12/2025 Project applications due to CoC lead (COR) & applications MUST be entered into E-Snaps.
12/16-12/19/2025 Project scoring by ICA
12/22-12/29/2025 Ranking & Scoring
12/30/2025 The CoC must notify, in writing outside of e-snaps, all project applicants who submitted their project applications to the CoC by the CoC-established deadline whether their project application(s) will be accepted and ranked on the CoC Priority Listing, rejected, or reduced by the CoC.
1/13/2026 CoC must post on their website (or a partner’s website) all parts of the CoC Consolidated Application, including the CoC Application attachments and the Priority Listing, and notify community members and key stakeholders that the CoC Consolidated Application is available.
1/14/2026 Submission Deadline for 2025 Consolidated Application. 7:00 pm CT
5/1/2026 Anticipated award date and estimated performance period start date.
Notice of funding opportunity media release FY2025
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