Macon-Bibb County Economic Opportunity Council, Inc.

Macon-Bibb County Economic Opportunity Council, Inc., a Georgia-based nonprofit community development corporation, acts as a prime recipient on federal Head Start, Early Head Start, and homelessness-prevention grants, and as a sub-recipient on state pass-throughs including Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and Community Services Block (CSBG) funding. The organization does not hold federal prime contracts; its footprint is entirely grant-based, split roughly evenly between prime grant awards (47% of recent activity) and sub-recipient awards routed through state agencies, predominantly the Georgia Department of Human Services (53% of recent activity).

Macon-Bibb County EOC's capability portfolio centers on early childhood education, homeless services, energy assistance, and workforce support programming. Recent prime grant work includes a $2.363 million Early Head Start award from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children and Families announced September 1, 2026, funding a five-year project period through August 31, 2031 to serve infants, toddlers, and pregnant women in Georgia with educational, health, nutritional, and social services. The organization also received a $306,638 AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program award from the Corporation for National and Community Service on July 1, 2026, funding the 2026–27 program year with 31 or more volunteers aged 55 and older providing one-on-one mentoring and tutoring to children with special needs in schools, Head Start programs, and childcare centers through June 30, 2029. Additionally, the organization holds overlapping Continuum of Care (CoC) Program awards from HHS Housing and Urban Development addressing homelessness: a $339,878 award effective January 1, 2026 (completed December 31, 2026) and a $488,347 award effective December 1, 2025 (through November 30, 2026) supporting permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, case management, and Homeless Management Information Systems in Macon, Georgia.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to two federal grantors accounting for 73% of recent awards: the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (25 awards as prime recipient) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (25 awards). The Corporation for National and Community Service and HHS Administration for Children and Families (in a sub-recipient role) round out the active set. As a sub-recipient, the organization receives the vast majority of its Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program and Community Services Block funding through Georgia Department of Human Services pass-throughs dating back to at least 2022, with recurring amendments and increases in baseline funding reflecting ongoing compliance and satisfactory program performance.

Total award activity shows modest year-over-year volatility — seven awards in 2022, six in 2023, fourteen in 2024, nine in 2025, and nine in 2026 — with a combined dollars obligated across all awards (prime and sub) of $305.5 million since the first award in the source data in 2005. Only three awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating relatively stable funding through late 2026 and into 2027–2028 for the Early Head Start five-year project and the AmeriCorps Foster Grandparent continuation awards. Head Start awards are subject to non-competing continuation based on satisfactory progress and compliance; recipients that do not meet Office of Head Start criteria make their service area and funding available through competition.