California Broadband Alliance

California Broadband Alliance, a non-profit organization based in Scotts Valley, California, acts exclusively as a federal grant sub-recipient, delivering last-mile fiber infrastructure deployment across rural California communities. The organization has received nine federal grant sub-awards totaling $13.3 million, all flowing from the State of California Department of Finance as prime grantee under Treasury Department funding, with no prime contracts or IDV positions in the federal marketplace.

All nine sub-awards, dated between October 31 and November 27, 2024, fund fiber-to-the-premises projects delivering up to 1 gigabit per second of symmetrical broadband service to unserved and underserved populations in California's Central Coast and Santa Cruz County regions. Named projects include fiber infrastructure deployment to Branch (2,087 population), Shandon (1,318 population), Old Oak Park (1,688 population), Corbett Canyon (2,168 population), Whitley Gardens (332 population), Radonich (210 population), Hutchinson (805 population), Lexington ConnectEd (204 population), and Mt Bache (408 population). Across these projects, California Broadband Alliance acts as grant recipient and infrastructure owner, while partnering with Surfnet Communications as the construction management entity responsible for day-to-day project execution and local applicant coordination.

Customer concentration is complete — all nine awards flow from a single source, the State of California Department of Finance, as the pass-through prime grantee under Treasury Department Departmental Offices funding. This represents a narrow, mission-specific federal footprint: the organization does not compete for federal contracts, does not sit on GWACs or agency-wide IDIQs, and operates solely within the federal broadband-infrastructure grant space as a sub-recipient entity. The entire award portfolio arrived within an eight-week window in late 2024, with no prior federal grant activity visible in the source data. Decision-relevant context: as a non-profit sub-recipient rather than a federal contractor, California Broadband Alliance does not participate in federal contracting set-asides, does not carry SBA certifications, and does not use contract vehicles; the organization's federal engagement is limited to capital infrastructure grants administered through state intermediaries under federal broadband-deployment programs.