Affordable Childcare Learning Center LLC

Affordable Childcare Learning Center LLC, a woman-owned, Black American-owned, economically disadvantaged woman-owned small business organized as a limited liability partnership, operates exclusively as a federal grant sub-recipient in child nutrition programs, with no prime contracting or contract vehicle presence. The company is structured as a for-profit minority-owned entity and holds WOSB and EDWOSB SBA designations.

The vendor's entire federal footprint consists of twelve sub-awards from the Connecticut Department of Education under USDA child nutrition programs over the past four years. All funding flows through the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, representing 100% of the vendor's federal award count. Sub-awards fall into two recurring federal grant categories: the Child Nutrition Program Block Consolidated and the Cash-In-Lieu/Commodities Child Care Food Program (CCFP). The company receives paired sub-awards under these programs on a consistent cycle — typically two sub-awards per funding period, one under each program type. Awards cycle annually or semi-annually, with sub-awards dated October 1 and January 13 marking the primary award windows in the source data, plus a mid-fiscal-year award cycle in March and May.

Combined dollars obligated across all twelve sub-awards total $224 thousand, indicating modest per-award values characteristic of direct service or facility-based child nutrition programming rather than institutional capacity-building or major infrastructure grants. The vendor's role is sub-recipient performing on Connecticut's prime USDA grant pass-through, meaning Affordable Childcare Learning Center LLC operates as a participating child care facility or nutrition services site within Connecticut's consolidated child nutrition administration, not as a grant administrator or intermediary.

Activity has remained flat over the 2022–2024 window (two awards per year) before accelerating in 2026 (six awards in the first five months of the year), reflecting either seasonal award cycles aligned with Connecticut's grant administration calendar or an increase in sub-award count within an existing prime relationship. The vendor has no federal contract awards, no parent vehicles, and no subcontracting presence — the entire profile is direct sub-recipient participation in federal child nutrition block grants administered by a state education agency.