Daniel Payne Child Care Center

Daniel Payne Child Care Center, a Nashville-based nonprofit tax-exempt organization and Black American-owned minority business, operates as a sub-recipient on federal child nutrition grants administered by the Tennessee Department of Human Services as the prime grantee. The center receives 100% of its federal funding through Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) reimbursements and Child Nutrition Block (CN Block) Meal reimbursements, both originating from the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service.

Activity spans a limited footprint: twelve sub-award grants across the past eight months, all routed through the state intermediary and all dedicated to child meal reimbursement and nutritional support for children in care. Six awards in 2025 and six in 2026 (through March) represent a steady monthly rhythm rather than project-based contracting — awards arrive on a recurring monthly or quarterly schedule aligned to meal-provision reimbursement cycles. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $26 thousand, indicating small-scale per-award values consistent with child care facility nutrition grants. The center operates exclusively as a sub-recipient; it holds no prime grants, no contracts, and no seat on federal contract vehicles. Its single customer agency is the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, with all funding flowing through Tennessee's state grant administration.

Daniel Payne Child Care Center's federal footprint is non-competitive and administratively narrow. The organization delivers direct child care and child nutrition services to its population; federal funding reimburses meals provided under CACFP and CN Block programs. This is not a federal services contractor or a goods supplier to the federal government — it is a local childcare operator drawing reimbursement revenue from federal child nutrition appropriations via state intermediary administration. The absence of prime awards, contract vehicles, and multi-agency customer relationships means the center presents no competitive, teaming, or prime-subcontractor leverage opportunity for federal contractors. Its relevance to business development professionals at federal contractors is limited to child-care-focused organizations seeking state-level CACFP administration insights or to organizations building community-based social-services portfolios; it does not compete for federal contracts, sit on IDIQs or GWACs, or manage significant federal pass-through dollars.