Missoula Area Education Cooperative

Missoula Area Education Cooperative, a local government entity and inter-municipal school district cooperative based in Missoula, Montana, operates exclusively as a sub-recipient of federal education grants, with no prime contract or grant authority. The organization holds four recent federal grant sub-awards, all received from the Montana Office of Public Instruction as the pass-through prime grantee, totaling $3 million obligated across the past three years.

Missoula Area Education Cooperative's sub-award portfolio centers on special education and elementary-secondary education funding. Three sub-awards flow from the Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services under CFDA 84.027 (IDEA Part B Grants to States), dated October 31, 2022; July 1, 2023; and October 31, 2025. A single sub-award received July 1, 2024 derives from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under CFDA 84.425 (Education Stabilization Fund — ESSER I). The awards are structured as annual or periodic sub-grants flowing through the state's education agency rather than direct federal awards to the cooperative.

Customer concentration is narrow and static: the Department of Education accounts for all four awards across two of its component offices. Award frequency has remained flat at one award per year over the past four years, with no growth trajectory evident in the source data. The most recent sub-award (October 31, 2025) suggests continued participation in IDEA Part B funding, but the source contains no information regarding recompete exposure, grant ceilings, or multi-year project terms. As a local government entity, Missoula Area Education Cooperative is ineligible for SBA set-asides and operates under full-and-open competitive process as a sub-recipient entity within Montana's federal education grant pass-through system.