Center for Integrated Programs

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living is a sub-agency within HHS that administers grants funding community-based programs for older adults, individuals with disabilities, and family caregivers. The Administration for Community Living operates primarily through formula grants distributed to state and territorial agencies, with smaller allocations through cooperative agreements and project grants.

Contract activity at the Administration for Community Living is minimal. The agency has awarded only 2 federal contracts totaling $11.6 million in combined potential value since 2023, with $5.8 million obligated to date. The most recent award closed on September 30, 2025. Both recent awardees—Tripoint Solutions, LLC ($6 million potential value) and New Editions, Inc. ($5.5 million potential value)—hold a single award each. One award carries a competitive 8(a) designation and the other is a total small-business set-aside. The agency shows no recurring contract activity pattern; no additional awards are recorded year-to-date in 2026.

Grant activity dominates the Administration for Community Living's portfolio. The agency has obligated $2.44 billion in federal grant funding across 3,370 awards since 2010, with 693 distinct recipients. Recent grant cadence spans 480 awards in 2022, 215 in 2023, 180 in 2024, 548 in 2025, and 236 year-to-date in 2026; the most recent grant award closed on September 1, 2026. The grant recipient base is highly fragmented—the top five recipients by award count (Department of Aging & Disability Services, Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, Human Services Vermont Agency Of, and Oregon Department of Human Services) hold only 6 percent of recent awards. The agency's funding mix is dominated by formula grants, which account for 80 percent of awards; cooperative agreements represent 14 percent, project grants 4 percent, and block grants 2 percent. These designations reflect the Administration for Community Living's core mission: distributing mandatory and discretionary formula allocations to states and territories for aging and disability services, with smaller competitive grant programs supporting targeted initiatives.

Business development focus should center on the grant side. The contract market here is underdeveloped and episodic. Grant recipients are predominantly state and territorial agency departments; federal and private-sector entities pursuing this agency's funding should target formula-grant participation or competitive project-grant opportunities where eligibility permits.