Anacostia Economic Development Corporation

Anacostia Economic Development Corporation, doing business as Aedc, operates as a non-profit community development corporation and minority-owned, Black American-owned organization based in Washington, DC, providing small business technical assistance to new, existing, and established businesses as a grant sub-recipient. Aedc does not hold federal contracts as a prime or subcontractor; it participates exclusively in federal grant programs as a sub-recipient.

Aedc's federal footprint is concentrated in a single customer agency. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families has issued four awards to Aedc (50% of the organization's total award count), representing the entirety of Aedc's active federal customer base. The organization has received eight federal awards since 2009, with two sub-recipient grants in 2024 and two in 2025. Recent sub-awards issued in April 2025 and one in November 2024 fund small business technical assistance to new, old, and existing businesses; an earlier award from February 2024 targeted technical assistance to businesses in the District of Columbia. Combined dollars obligated across all eight awards total $3.4 million, with activity concentrated in the past two years (two awards in 2024, two in 2025) after a long dormancy from 2012 through 2023.

Aedc's grant work does not involve federal contracts, IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs. The organization functions as a community development intermediary, channeling federal grant funding from HHS ACF into local small business development services rather than as a prime federal service provider or vendor. Recompete opportunity exists but is not relevant to federal contracting professionals; the federal grant pipeline for Aedc is grant-funded technical assistance delivery, not contract competition.