Kidz By The Riverside, Inc.

Kidz By The Riverside, Inc., a for-profit organization headquartered in Warren, Ohio, receives federal grant sub-awards exclusively — all four recent awards are sub-grants from the Ohio Department of Education under Child Care Food Program (CACFP) and related cash-in-lieu funding streams administered by the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service. The vendor operates solely as a sub-recipient; it holds no prime contracts or prime grants and has not been awarded any federal contract vehicles.

Kidz By The Riverside's federal footprint consists of two parallel award streams, both cyclical. The Child Care Food Program sub-award for fiscal year 2025 was obligated in October 2024; the same program's FFY26 award followed in October 2025. The CACFP Cash In Lieu sub-award mirrors this pattern, with October 2024 and October 2025 obligations. The combined potential value across all four sub-awards is $225 thousand. Activity is limited and seasonal — two awards per calendar year, timed to the federal fiscal year cycle. The vendor's sole customer is the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, reached through the Ohio Department of Education as the prime grant recipient.

The vendor's federal role is restricted to child-care nutrition program administration and reimbursement eligibility under CACFP, a program that funds meals and snacks for low-income children in child-care settings. This is a narrow, non-competitive, formula-driven sub-grant relationship rather than a discretionary procurement or performance-based contract. There is no evidence of sub-teaming, no parent vehicle portfolio, and no indication of expansion into other federal programs or customer agencies.