Greater Bergen Community Action, Inc.

Greater Bergen Community Action, Inc., doing business as Bccap, is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Hackensack, New Jersey, that serves as a federal grant recipient providing homelessness services, early childhood education, weatherization and energy assistance, refugee support, and community health infrastructure to low-income populations in Bergen County and surrounding areas. Bccap operates primarily as a grant recipient (40% of awards as prime recipient) and as a sub-recipient flowing federal funds through state and nonprofit intermediaries (60% of awards), with no contracting footprint.

Bccap's customer concentration is dominated by three federal agencies. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development accounts for 30 awards centered on the Continuum of Care (COC) program, which funds permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, and supportive services for homeless individuals and families. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families anchors 29 awards, primarily Head Start and Early Head Start grants funding early education and development services, with supplementary awards supporting refugee cash assistance and support services flowing through the International Rescue Committee as prime grantee. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service provides 21 awards, predominantly CARES food distribution and cash-in-lieu funding channeled through the New Jersey Department of Agriculture. Additional customers include the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control, which funded lead-based paint hazard control in privately owned housing, and the Department of Homeland Security Citizenship and Immigration Services, which awarded Bccap $250 thousand in October 2022 under the Citizenship Education and Training program (CFDA 97.010) to deliver citizenship instruction and naturalization services through September 2024.

Representative prime recipient work includes a $1.5 million Congressionally Directed Spending construction grant from the Bureau of Primary Health Care (August 2022, completion July 2025) to renovate and reconfigure 535 Midland Avenue in Garfield, New Jersey, into the Unity Health Partnership community health center serving uninsured and underinsured residents, and recurring Head Start and Early Head Start project grants from the Office of Head Start spanning multiple fiscal years with multi-year performance periods. Recent Continuum of Care awards run from March 2026 through February 2027 for permanent housing and rapid rehousing operations. Bccap's sub-recipient role concentrates on pass-through funding from state grantees — particularly the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs for weatherization, energy assistance, and low-income services — and from the International Rescue Committee for refugee cash assistance and support services serving ORR-eligible populations in the Hackensack area.

Activity has fluctuated across the tracking window, peaking at 27 awards in 2023, declining to 19 in 2024, 12 in 2025, and 9 awards thus far in 2026. Across 124 total awards in the source data, Bccap has obligated $615 million in federal funding. Only one award reaches ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, indicating a mature and stable grant portfolio with long performance periods typical of Head Start, housing, and community action programming.