Community Action Council For Lexington-F

Community Action Council For Lexington-Fayette, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky, serves as a prime recipient of federal grants focused on homelessness intervention, early childhood education, and community support services, with 75% of recent awards as prime grants and 25% as sub-recipient grants from state housing and social-service intermediaries.

The organization's federal footprint centers on three core capability areas, each grounded in substantial multi-year grant commitments. Under the HUD Continuum of Care (CoC) Program (CFDA 14.267), Community Action Council operates permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, and supportive services for individuals and families experiencing homelessness across Lexington-Fayette and surrounding Kentucky counties. Recent CoC awards include $180,151 for July 2026 through June 2027, $262,939 for calendar 2026, and recurring annual allocations dating to 2021. The organization also holds a five-year Head Start and Early Head Start grant (CFDA 93.600) from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families for $16.4 million, awarded August 2025 through July 2030, delivering educational instruction, health and nutritional services, and family engagement programming to low-income children and families in the five-county service area. A companion five-year Migrant Head Start award of $5.46 million, effective September 2025 through August 2030, targets migrant and seasonal worker families with similar comprehensive early childhood services. The organization also operates an Early Head Start Child Care Partnership program awarded August 2024 and a Head Start and Early Head Start Expansion block grant awarded September 2024. Additionally, Community Action Council holds a five-year Coordinated System for Treatment and Services (CSTS) grant from the SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (effective September 2023 through September 2028) providing integrated behavioral health and housing services to up to 50 individuals per year experiencing homelessness with substance use disorder and co-occurring mental health conditions across 13 central Kentucky counties, delivered in partnership with New Vista, Bluegrass Community Action Program, and Morehead State University.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward HUD and HHS. The HUD Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development dominates by award count with 53 awards; the HHS Administration for Children and Families accounts for 34 awards across three separate lines in the award count breakdown, together representing the second major customer concentration. The Corporation for National and Community Service rounds out the top-five customer set with 7 awards. These five funders account for 78% of all recent awards. Combined dollars obligated across 121 awards (91 prime, 30 sub) total $782.4 million over the portfolio's lifetime, with annual award volume trending upward from 6 awards in 2022 to a peak of 21 in 2024, followed by 13 in 2025 and 2 in early 2026 (reflecting the recency snapshot as of mid-July 2026).

As a sub-recipient, Community Action Council receives pass-through funding from Kentucky Housing Corporation and Kentucky Cabinet for Health Services, delivering permanent supportive housing services, weatherization and energy retrofit assistance, adult protective services, family preservation, and independent living services to eligible households across the state. The organization's sub-award activity includes housing-focused allocations under CoC bonus initiatives and Dedicated PLUS permanent housing programs, as well as Community Services Block Grant and foster-care-adjacent supports (Chafee Independent Living, Family First Transition Act Prevention) routed through state intermediaries.

Three awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure in the near term. The organization's federal grant footprint is regionally anchored in Kentucky with service areas spanning Lexington-Fayette and multiple surrounding counties, and the grant-focused posture (no contract prime awards or government-wide contract vehicles in the source) positions Community Action Council as a community-based nonprofit operator rather than a federal IT, logistics, or professional-services vendor.