Gateway Learning Academy, LLC

Gateway Learning Academy, LLC, a Black American-owned, woman-owned small business based in Memphis, Tennessee, operates exclusively as a federal grant sub-recipient, delivering child nutrition program administration and meal reimbursement services under the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service. The vendor holds SBA designations as a minority-owned business, self-certified small disadvantaged business, and woman-owned small business, but has no prime contracts, contract vehicles, or prime grant awards in its recent federal footprint.

Gateway Learning Academy's entire federal engagement routes through the Tennessee Department of Human Services as the pass-through prime recipient. The vendor receives monthly federal grant sub-awards spanning two program lines: the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and the Child Nutrition Block (CN Block) Meals Reimbursement program. All twenty-one awards in the source data flow from the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (100% customer concentration) via Tennessee DHHS as the intermediary. The awards are monthly reimbursement and administrative sub-grants rather than discrete project tasks — the vendor has drawn twenty-one monthly allocations between July 2024 and May 2026, with a combined obligation of $79 thousand across the period. Activity has grown from three awards in 2024 to ten in 2026 year-to-date, reflecting increasing monthly allocation frequency rather than expanding scope.

The vendor's concrete work involves administering child nutrition meal reimbursement claims and center-level childcare facility meal operations under CACFP and CN Block authorities. The sub-awards are recurring monthly grants, not capacity contracts; the vendor's role is institutional nutrition program delivery and financial reconciliation at the childcare-facility or nutrition-center level within Tennessee's DHHS service footprint. No dollar ceiling, multi-year vehicle, teaming relationships, or subcontractor footprint appear in the source. The vendor operates as a single-agency, single-program-suite sub-recipient with no federal contract prime experience, no prime grant recipients, and no access to government-wide vehicles or multiple-award IDIQs.