Center For Rural Affairs
Lyons, NE
- UEI
- LAVLJUMF3LJ4
- CAGE
- 3MKY5
- Primary NAICS
- Not on record
- SAM.gov registration
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Company facts
- Self-certified in SAM.gov
- Entity structure
- Corporate Entity (Tax Exempt)
- SAM.gov registration date
- Physical address
- 145 N Main St, Lyons, NE 68038, USA
- Website
- cfra.org
- Founded
- 1973
- Employees
- 11-50
- Estimated annual revenue
- $1M-$10M
- Industry
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- Consumer Discretionary
- Consumer Services
- Diversified Consumer Services
- Specialized Consumer Services
- SIC code
- 86 Membership Organizations
Registration and certifications come from SAM.gov and the SBA; company details from public web sources. Updated .
Grant awards
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
Grant subawards
| Prime recipient | Prime award | Amount | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regents Of The University Of Minnesota | 20253864045386 | $119,951 | |
| Board Of Regents Of The University Of Nebraska | AM22RFBCNE0002 | $275,852 | |
| Coalition For Green Capital | 84094201 | $250,000 | |
| Regents Of The University Of Minnesota | 20243864042989 | $50,000 | |
| Coalition For Green Capital | 84094201 | $10,000,000 |
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
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About the company
Center For Rural Affairs, a Nebraska-based tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Lyons, operates exclusively as a federal grant recipient (91% prime grants, 9% grant sub-awards) with no federal contracting presence. The organization delivers technical assistance, training, business development, and financial services to rural communities, family farms, beginning and minority farmers, and rural entrepreneurs across the Great Plains, with a concentration of work in Nebraska and neighboring states.
Center For Rural Affairs' federal grant portfolio centers on the Department of Agriculture's Rural Business Cooperative Services, which accounts for 38 of the organization's 105 tracked federal awards. USDA dominates the customer concentration at 62% of awards across Rural Housing Service, Rural Business Cooperative Services, Agricultural Marketing Service, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, and Risk Management Agency. The Small Business Administration (9 awards) and the National Resources Conservation Service round out the active customer set. The organization has served 21 distinct federal agencies since 2007.
The capability portfolio reflects a rural development and agricultural finance focus. Representative prime grants include a $10 million Meat and Poultry Intermediary Lending Program award from USDA Rural Business Cooperative Services (Dec 2022–Dec 2024) to provide loans to qualified meat and poultry processors in Nebraska; a $5 million Meat and Poultry Intermediary Lending Program award (Mar 2023–Mar 2025) for the same purpose; a $100 thousand Farm to School Grant (CFDA 10.575) from the Food and Nutrition Service (Jul 2023–Jun 2025) supporting local food system development; a $174,646 Socially-Disadvantaged Groups Grant (CFDA 10.871) from Rural Business Cooperative Services (Aug 2024) providing technical assistance to minority agricultural producers; and a $5.6 million Inflation Reduction Act award from the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of the Administrator (May 2024–Aug 2025) providing financial and technical assistance for distributed solar energy and storage deployment in low-income and disadvantaged communities. Recent awards include a Rural Business Development Grant from Rural Business Cooperative Services (Jun 2026–Jun 2028) and a Rural Business Cooperative Services Rural Enterprise Grant (Sep 2025–Sep 2027).
Center For Rural Affairs also operates as a sub-recipient on university-led and nonprofit-led grants. Recent sub-awards include work under the Regents of the University of Minnesota on farm transition advising (May 2026) and specialty crop seed production for beginning farmers (Mar 2025); work under the Coalition For Green Capital on greenhouse-gas reduction and air pollution projects (Dec 2025, Feb 2025); and work under the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska on the Heartland USDA Regional Food Business Center (Mar 2026) and the North Central Extension Risk Management Education Center (Apr 2024).
Activity has declined in recent years — seven awards in 2022, eleven in 2023, six in 2024, four in 2025, and three in 2026 to date — with only four awards carrying ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, indicating limited recompete volume in the near term. The combined dollars obligated across all 105 prime and sub awards total $111.4 million. The organization competes exclusively for federal grant funding; it holds no seats on IDIQs, GWACs, or agency-wide contract vehicles and does not pursue federal contracting.
Quick answers
Is Center For Rural Affairs registered in SAM.gov?
Yes. Center For Rural Affairs's SAM.gov registration is active through January 13, 2027.
What is Center For Rural Affairs's most recent federal award?
Center For Rural Affairs's most recent federal grant award is Secd rural business development coop rbeg grant (CLSS00000118930), from Rural Business Cooperative Services (RHS), on June 26, 2026.
On GovTribe
See Center For Rural Affairs's full federal record
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- Funding analysis by agency, NAICS and set-aside
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