Grafton County Senior Citizens Council, Inc.

Grafton County Senior Citizens Council, Inc. (doing business as Upper Valley Senior Center) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit established in 1972 that serves as a federal grant recipient, not a federal contractor, providing senior nutrition, transportation, volunteer program management, and community services to residents in Grafton and Sullivan counties in New Hampshire. The organization operates 75% of its recent federal footprint as a prime grant recipient and 25% as a sub-recipient under state and national nonprofit pass-through awards.

Upper Valley Senior Center's federal funding streams center on aging and community-service grant programs. The Corporation for National and Community Service accounts for seven of the organization's sixteen total federal awards, split across AmeriCorps Seniors Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) funding (CFDA 94.002) and related community-service grants. The most recent award, dated June 25, 2026, is a $163,634 RSVP grant running through March 31, 2029, which funds volunteers aged 55 and older to deliver mentoring and tutoring to children, workforce and job-readiness support, nutrition and food assistance, substance abuse education, disaster preparedness facilitation, and veteran and military family support across the region. Volunteers commit between a few hours and up to 40 hours per week. The organization's statutory match requirement for this award is 10 percent; budgeted match is 32.78 percent. Prior RSVP grants from Corporation for National and Community Service (awarded July 1, 2023, and running through March 31, 2026) carried statutory match requirements of 24 percent and 10 percent respectively, with budgeted match of 39.66 percent and 34 percent.

The Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service and the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living account for four and three awards respectively, representing 44% of the organization's recent federal award count. Upper Valley Senior Center also functions as a sub-recipient on federal nutrition and transportation grants passed through the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (two awards in 2025 and one in 2024 for BAAS Nutrition Services and Transportation Services) and on a benefits-access program sub-award from the National Council on The Aging dated March 31, 2026, focused on expanding federal and state benefit access for low-income older adults and persons with disabilities, particularly for Medicare affordability programs.

Activity is sparse and episodic. The organization received two awards in 2020, one each in 2023 and 2024, and two each in 2025 and 2026, across six distinct customer agencies. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $4.3 million. The organization's footprint is entirely grant-based; no federal contracts or contract vehicles appear in the record.