Coastal Regional Commission

Coastal Regional Commission, doing business as Coastal Georgia Area Agency On Aging, is a U.S. local government entity based in Darien, Georgia that operates as a prime recipient of federal grants focused on aging services, regional economic development, and environmental remediation across ten coastal Georgia counties. The organization operates overwhelmingly as a sub-recipient (86% of recent awards) under grants issued by the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living and the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, with a smaller prime-recipient footprint (14% of awards) anchored to economic development and brownfields programs.

The bulk of Coastal Regional Commission's work flows through the Older Americans Act (OAA) grant ecosystem administered by Georgia's Department of Human Services. Recent prime grants include a $1.2 million cooperative agreement from EPA Region 4 (awarded July 1, 2025, running through June 30, 2029) to conduct brownfields assessment, characterization, and cleanup planning across Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, and Screven counties—with anticipated outcomes of 20 Phase I and 8 Phase II environmental site assessments, 6 community meetings, and 13 site-specific cleanup plans. Coastal Regional also received a $1.006 million National Park Service Historic Preservation Fund grant (CFDA 15.904, awarded October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2027) for the McIntosh County Historic Revitalization Subgrant Program, funding exterior improvements to properties listed or eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places in rural areas. A January 1, 2025 Economic Development Administration project grant funds disaster recovery capacity and coordination following the September/October 2024 hurricanes through December 31, 2029. Earlier, a January 1, 2024 EDA grant supported comprehensive economic development strategy development across the ten-county region.

Customer concentration is extreme and stationary. The Administration for Community Living accounts for 96 awards (62% of the 155-award portfolio), the Administration for Children and Families for 12 awards, and the Economic Development Administration for 10 awards—together covering 78% of all awards. All sub-award volume routes through the Department of Human Services as prime grantee; Coastal Regional Commission acts as an area agency on aging subcontractor managing aging services, nutrition programs, caregiver support, transportation for elderly and disabled persons, and related services under OAA Title III. The remaining prime footprint includes two Department of Defense awards and one Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service award. Total dollars obligated across all 155 awards (prime and sub combined) reached $64.5 million since 1982, with 49 awards in 2024 followed by contraction to 19 in 2025 and 3 in 2026. Only one award faces completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure.

Coastal Regional Commission's sub-award portfolio centers on delivery of aging-focused social services: congregate and home-delivered meals for seniors (OAA Title III-C, CFDA 93.045), supportive services and senior centers (Title III-B, CFDA 93.044), family caregiver support (Title III-E, CFDA 93.052), preventive health services (Title III-D, CFDA 93.043), and coordinated transportation for elderly and disabled populations under the Older Americans Act and Federal Transit Administration Section 5311 and 5304 programs. Recent sub-awards include multiple Department of Human Services pass-throughs for home-delivered meals, nutrition services incentive programs, caregiver support, long-term care ombudsman services, adult protective services, and elder abuse prevention under the OAA framework. Transportation sub-awards from the Department of Human Services through FY26 include 5310 and 5311 funding for services in the Savannah Urbanized Area and non-urban counties across coastal Georgia. The organization also received a June 4, 2026 sub-award for coordinated transportation services under 5310 funding in the Savannah Large UZA.