Administration on Aging

The Administration for Community Living (ACL), a sub-agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, funds state and local aging and disability services, community integration programs, and related capacity-building through contracts and grants distributed nationwide.

ACL has awarded 34 federal contracts totaling $112.5 million in combined potential value, with $70 million obligated to date. Recent contract activity shows irregular velocity: 1 award in 2022, 10 in 2023, 11 in 2024, 1 in 2025, and 8 year-to-date in 2026, with the most recent award closing on 2026-09-30. Among recent prime contractors, competitive concentration by award count is concentrated—the top five primes (Research Triangle Institute, Human Services Research Institute, New Editions Inc., CG Strategy Inc., and The Lewin Group Inc.) hold 52 percent of recent awards. By potential value, concentration is also concentrated: The Lewin Group Inc. leads with $22.1 million across three awards, followed by Radiant Creative Group LLC at $14 million and Research Triangle Institute at $11.4 million; these five top primes account for 60 percent of combined potential value. Across 22 distinct contractors, half of awards carry no set-aside designation, about one-third are small-business set-asides, and the remainder split between 8(a) sole-source and partial-small-business designations.

Grant activity dominates the portfolio. ACL has awarded 12,441 grants totaling $41.24 billion in federal dollars obligated since 2007. Recent annual volume shows 955 awards in 2022, 1,572 in 2023, 796 in 2024, 627 in 2025, and 905 year-to-date in 2026, with the most recent award recorded on 2026-08-01. Grant recipients are highly fragmented—the top five recipients by award count account for only 5 percent of recent awards, and the top five by federal dollars account for 7 percent. State departments of human services dominate the recipient base: Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, and Wisconsin collectively received more than $2.6 billion over the last five years. The assistance-type mix is heavily skewed toward Formula Grants (81 percent of awards) and Block Grants (13 percent), with Cooperative Agreements (5 percent) and Project Grants (1 percent) forming a smaller share. ACL distributed grants to 1,093 distinct recipients, reflecting the agency's role in funding state and tribal administrations as well as local service providers and advocacy organizations.