Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Action Agency

Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Action Agency, a Tennessee-based tax-exempt nonprofit, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering early childhood education, senior volunteer engagement, nutrition support, utility assistance, and weatherization services to low-income families and seniors in the Clarksville-Montgomery County service area. The agency acts as a direct recipient on prime federal grants (26% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient flowing federal funding from Tennessee state intermediaries (74% of recent awards), with no federal contract footprint.

The agency's prime grant portfolio centers on three Corporation for National and Community Service programs and one Department of Health and Human Services award. Most prominently, Clarksville-Montgomery County received a $5.68 million five-year Head Start Project Grant (CFDA 93.600) from the Office of Head Start, effective November 1, 2025 through October 31, 2030, providing comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition, and family support services for infants, toddlers, and preschool-age children from low-income families. The agency also holds a $445,061 three-year AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program grant (CFDA 94.011) from the Office of Grants Management, awarded July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2029, deploying volunteers aged 55 and older to provide one-on-one tutoring, mentoring, and developmental support to children with special needs or academic disadvantage in schools, Head Start programs, and childcare centers. A prior AmeriCorps Seniors grant covering 2023–2026 and an AmeriCorps Seniors RSVP (Retired and Senior Volunteer Program) grant extended through May 7, 2025 complete the senior volunteer footprint.

The agency's sub-recipient activity flows almost entirely through Tennessee state pass-through entities, principally the Tennessee Department of Human Services and the Tennessee Housing Development Agency. The 58 sub-awards documented span five federal grant programs: Child Nutrition Block Grant Meals Reimbursement (CN Block), Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), Community Services Block Grant (CSBG), Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), and Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP). Monthly CN Block and CACFP meals reimbursements run continuously from 2023 through mid-2026; LIHEAP and weatherization sub-awards appear annually or semi-annually from 2021 onward; CSBG funds flow annually beginning in 2023. Collectively, these sub-awards finance nutrition services, utility bill assistance, and home weatherization for eligible low-income households.

Recent activity accelerated markedly — six awards annually in 2022 and 2023 climbing to fourteen in 2024 and twenty-one in 2025, with eleven awards through mid-2026. The top three funding sources by award count account for 90% of recent awards: the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (37 awards, primarily CN Block and CACFP reimbursements via Tennessee intermediaries), the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (17 awards, anchored by the Head Start prime grant and related sub-awards), and the Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management (7 awards across AmeriCorps Seniors programs). Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $112.8 million.