Flagstaff Arts And Leadership Academy, Inc.

Flagstaff Arts And Leadership Academy, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Flagstaff, Arizona, receives federal grants as a prime recipient and sub-recipient to fund K-12 educational programming, special education services, and summer enrichment initiatives. The organization has no federal contracting footprint and operates exclusively through direct grants and sub-grants from the Department of Education.

Flagstaff Arts & Leadership Academy holds a 50/50 split between prime grant awards (7 awards) and sub-grant awards (7 awards) across its fourteen total federal grants, with a combined $739 thousand obligated across all awards. The vendor's customer concentration is entirely within the Department of Education: nine awards flow from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program (formula grants awarded July 1 annually from 2022 through 2026), and five awards derive from the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, predominantly through the Arizona Department of Education as the pass-through entity. As a sub-recipient, Flagstaff Arts & Leadership Academy draws funding from Arizona Department of Education sub-grants to operate special education programs, including IDEA Basic Section 611 subgrants for special education teacher employment and retention, ESSER III grant programs, and summer enrichment programming funded through the Arizona Executive Office. One award (the current Small, Rural School Achievement Program grant awarded July 1, 2026, with ultimate completion September 30, 2027) falls within the next twenty-four-month recompete window.

The organization's federal work centers on serving a higher-than-average special education population — 46 students (20% of total enrollment) with diagnosed disabilities including autism, learning disabilities, developmental delays, cognitive impairment, emotional and behavioral disorders, hearing impairment, speech and language disorders, and other health impairments. Federal funding supports direct program delivery: employment and retention of special education teachers who serve as case managers, inclusive classroom operations, summer enrichment programming, and academic skill development for students with delayed knowledge acquisition in core academic courses. Flagstaff Arts & Leadership Academy receives formula-grant allocations rather than competing for project-based federal grants and has generated awards at a modest, consistent rate — one award in 2022, five in 2023, two in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026 — reflecting the annual cycles of Small, Rural School Achievement Program funding and periodic sub-grant allocations from Arizona's Department of Education.