Crosswalk Community Action Agency

Crosswalk Community Action Agency, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in West Frankfort, Illinois, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering rural housing preservation, energy assistance, and community services to low-income households in Illinois. The organization acts as both a prime grant recipient (57% of awards) and a sub-recipient flowing federal funding through state intermediaries (43% of awards), with no federal contract prime or IDV presence.

The vendor's grant footprint is concentrated in two federal agencies. The Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service accounts for 11 awards, split between the Single Family Housing Program (7 awards) and broader Rural Housing Service vehicle funding (4 awards); the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families accounts for 7 awards. The Department of Energy contributes 2 awards, and the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 7 holds 1 award valued at $11 thousand. The concentration is unified: 100% of the vendor's combined potential value flows through these five customer agencies, with USDA and HHS anchoring the volume.

Crosswalk's prime grant work centers on Rural Housing Preservation Grants (CFDA 10.433) issued by USDA's Single Family Housing Program. Representative examples include a $139,264 project grant awarded August 8, 2024 (completion October 8, 2025) to repair and rehabilitate homes for very low- and low-income rural residents across individual homeowners, rental properties, and housing cooperatives; a $142,850 grant from July 26, 2023 (completion August 26, 2024) with the same scope; and a $273,189 award from September 2021 (completion June 2022) supporting housing rehabilitation services. The most recent USDA awards in the source are dated August 29, 2026 and August 16, 2025, extending through October 2027.

As a sub-recipient, Crosswalk flows funding from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for Community Service Block Grant (CSBG) assistance, Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) support for energy and heating bills, and weatherization assistance for low-income households. Nine sub-awards from this pass-through vehicle are dated between January 2024 and January 2026, reflecting active quarterly or semi-annual award cycles within Illinois's state administration of federal poverty-reduction programs.

Activity has accelerated modestly — one award each in 2022 and 2023, then five awards in both 2024 and 2025 — with two awards (both USDA Rural Housing Preservation Grants) facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The source lists combined potential value as $11 thousand but combined obligated dollars at $13.2 million, indicating that the potential-value field does not capture the full scope of grant commitments; dollar magnitudes in individual grant summaries range from $139 thousand to $273 thousand per award.