Bolivar County Community Action Agency, Inc.

Bolivar County Community Action Agency, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit and community development corporation headquartered in Cleveland, Mississippi, receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient and subrecipient to deliver homelessness services, early childhood education, nutrition assistance, and energy assistance programs across five federal customer agencies. The organization operates split between prime grant awards (52% of the footprint) and sub-awards from state agencies (48%), with no federal contract work.

The agency's federal grant footprint concentrates heavily in HUD's Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267) under the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development. Since 2021, Bolivar County has received recurring annual CoC awards totaling $210.3 million across 79 combined prime and sub awards. Representative CoC prime grants include $758,725 awarded September 1, 2025 (completion August 31, 2026) and $660,369 awarded September 1, 2024 (completion August 31, 2025), both structured to deliver rapid rehousing, rental assistance, and wraparound case management services to homeless individuals and families in the Cleveland area. A $234,190 CoC prime grant effective January 1, 2026 (completion December 31, 2026) continues this work through the current federal fiscal year. These HUD awards represent roughly 31 awards per the top-customers ranking. Beyond CoC, the agency holds prime grants under the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Head Start for early childhood education — including a Head Start award and an Early Head Start Expansion award, both with September 1, 2024 effective dates and August 31, 2029 completion dates — totaling 8 awards in that program line.

Bolivar County also operates as a sub-recipient under state administrative agency pass-throughs. The Mississippi Department of Human Services allocates Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) and Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funding to the agency for vulnerable-population support services; the Mississippi Department of Education channels Child Nutrition Program (CNP) block and CNP-CIL (Child and Adult Care Food Program) sub-awards for school meal and nutrition services. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, represented as the second-highest customer by award count (29 awards), reflects the volume of recurring monthly CNP allocations. Sub-awards from HUD (including HOME-ARP and ESG-CV emergency shelter/rapid rehousing initiatives) round out the sub-recipient portfolio. Award activity has grown from a single award in 2022 to 31 awards in 2024, with nine awards in 2025 and two year-to-date in 2026. Only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating limited recompete exposure in the immediate window.