Brooklyn Chinese-American Association Inc.

Brooklyn Chinese-American Association Inc., a tax-exempt non-profit organization based in Brooklyn, New York, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering early childhood education, family support services, and victim assistance programs to low-income communities. The organization acts as a prime recipient on Head Start grants and as a sub-recipient on victim assistance sub-awards, with no prime federal contracting footprint.

The organization's recent activity centers on two distinct federal grant programs. As a prime recipient, Brooklyn Chinese-American Association Inc. holds a five-year Head Start Project Grant (CFDA 93.600) awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families in February 2026, valued at $2,165,918 through January 2031, under which the organization delivers comprehensive early childhood education, health and nutritional support, social-emotional development programming, and family engagement initiatives for three- and four-year-old children and Early Head Start services for infants, toddlers, and pregnant women in the Brooklyn community. The organization is required to provide a 20 percent non-federal match and operates within the nationally networked Head Start system of approximately 1,600 agencies. In its sub-recipient role, Brooklyn Chinese-American Association Inc. has received three consecutive annual awards (October 1, 2022; October 1, 2023; October 1, 2024) from the New York State Office of Victim Services under the Victim Assistance Program, a federally funded stream administered through the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime. A fourth sub-award in June 2022 supported commercial district revitalization in low-to-moderate-income areas.

Customer concentration sits heavily with HHS Administration for Children and Families across seven awards, with the Department of Justice Victims of Crime office accounting for three sub-award grants (covering 91% of awards by count). Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $37.7 million. Activity has remained modest and episodic — two awards each in 2021 and 2022, one in 2023, one in 2024, and one in 2026 — with the February 2026 Head Start award representing the organization's largest and most recent transaction. The organization has operated in the federal grant space since at least 2008, with prior Head Start funding experience before the current award period.