District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund

District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delivers workforce development and occupational safety training to federal agencies as a prime recipient on federal grants and contracts, with supplemental sub-recipient grant work routed through the Pennsylvania Department of Education. The organization does not compete on federal contracts as a prime or hold seats on government-wide vehicles; its federal footprint consists entirely of direct grants and grant sub-awards from the Department of Labor, the Department of Education, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

District 1199C's award activity centers on workforce training and apprenticeship expansion. The organization holds a $6.2 million definitive contract (awarded December 2021, running through December 2025) from the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration to serve as an industry intermediary launching, promoting, and expanding multi-employer registered apprenticeship models, with a base-period target of recruiting at least 600 new apprentices and 1,500 total over two years. The organization recently became a recipient of a $6.43 million Head Start Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (CFDA 93.600) for Early Head Start services across Pennsylvania, running from March 2026 through February 2028, funded for five years with a required 20 percent non-federal match. District 1199C also received a Susan Harwood Grant from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (awarded September 2021, completed September 2022) to develop free occupational safety and health training materials and conduct live training for hard-to-reach workers in high-hazard industries.

Customer concentration is heavily concentrated in workforce and education programs. The Department of Education's Office of Career Technical and Adult Education leads by award count with 16 awards, the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration follows with 11 awards, and the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration accounts for 5 awards carrying the full $6.2 million in combined potential value. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families accounts for 3 awards. Across all 39 awards (prime and sub-recipients combined), District 1199C shows 92 percent of recent award volume concentrated among these top five customers.

District 1199C's sub-recipient footprint is substantial relative to prime work: 16 sub-award grants run through the Pennsylvania Department of Education for adult basic education, literacy services, workplace literacy, and family literacy programming, with dates spanning 2021 through December 2025. The organization operates as a prime recipient on 51 percent of awards and as a sub-recipient on 49 percent. Award activity declined from eight awards in 2021 to five in 2022–2023, with two awards in 2025 and one in 2026; combined dollars obligated ($76.7 million) substantially exceed combined potential value ($6.2 million), indicating multi-year funding cycles with significant prior-year obligated balances.