Mary LOU Johnson, Incorporated

Mary LOU Johnson, Incorporated, a Black American-owned, minority-owned non-profit organization based in Selmer, Tennessee, operates exclusively as a sub-recipient on federal child nutrition and meal reimbursement grant programs funded through the Department of Agriculture. The organization has no prime contract or grant awards and does not hold seats on government-wide acquisition vehicles; all four recent federal awards are sub-grants flowing from the Tennessee Department of Human Services as the prime grantee.

Mary LOU Johnson's federal footprint is nascent and narrowly focused. All activity dates to 2026, with four sub-grant awards totaling $225 thousand in obligated dollars, awarded in May and June of this year. Both awards involve the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), with two sub-grants covering administrative activities and two covering Child Nutrition Block Meals reimbursement. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service is the sole federal customer across the current portfolio, and Tennessee Department of Human Services is the administrative intermediary managing the sub-grant relationship.

Given the non-profit status, tax-exempt structure, and exclusive sub-grant posture, Mary LOU Johnson functions as a community nutrition delivery or administration partner within Tennessee's state child nutrition ecosystem rather than as a federal contracting vendor. The organization operates at sub-$100 thousand scale per award and has no direct federal procurement relationships. Competitors pursuing federal child nutrition contracts, HUBZone or 8(a) vendors in the nutrition or social services space, and firms considering partnerships with Tennessee-based non-profit nutrition providers should track this vendor's evolution, but Mary LOU Johnson does not currently occupy meaningful share in federal contracting lanes requiring competitive intelligence.