Department Of Social Services Misso

The Department Of Social Services Misso, doing business as Finance And Administrative Services, is a U.S. state government entity and child agency of the State of Missouri headquartered in Jefferson City, Missouri. The entity acts as a federal grant recipient (100% of its recent awards are prime grants; 0.2% are sub-recipients) and administers formula-allocated and block grant federal entitlements across human services, child welfare, nutrition assistance, healthcare, energy assistance, and workforce development programs statewide.

The vendor's federal grant footprint is dominated by mandatory state pass-through entitlements rather than competitive awards. Over the past several years, the Department has received recurring formula allocations from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF), HHS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the Department of Agriculture (USDA). Representative recent awards illustrate the scale and scope: a $49.720 billion Medicaid entitlement block grant (CFDA 93.778) awarded October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026; a $1.096 billion Children's Health Insurance Program block grant (CFDA 93.767) for the same period; a $540.838 million Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant (CFDA 93.558); a $168.431 million Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program award (CFDA 93.568); and a $865.107 million cooperative agreement under the Rural Health Transformation Program (CFDA 93.798) with an ultimate completion date of October 30, 2030. Nutrition and food assistance awards include a $63 million Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer Program award (CFDA 10.646), a $55.029 million SNAP State Administrative Matching Grants award (CFDA 10.561), and related emergency food assistance and child nutrition allocations.

Child welfare and family services dominate the ACF awards. Recent examples include a $600,000 cooperative agreement awarded September 30, 2026, under the Child Abuse and Neglect Discretionary Activities program (CFDA 93.670) to develop and implement predictive analytics capabilities within Missouri's child welfare system, targeting placement stability management and smart case summary generators; a $188.093 million Foster Care Title IV-E program block grant (CFDA 93.658) for safe and stable out-of-home services; a $173.413 million Adoption Assistance block grant (CFDA 93.659); a $10.611 million Stephanie Tubbs Jones Child Welfare Services Program award (CFDA 93.645); and a $70.827 million Social Services Block Grant (CFDA 93.667) with sub-awards passed to 16 named community partnership and community action agencies across Missouri. The Department also administers formula grants for child abuse and neglect prevention, promoting safe and stable families, family violence prevention and services, foster care education and training vouchers, and child support enforcement services, with performance reaching across Missouri's counties and community-based organizations.

Customer concentration aligns with the entitlement structure. HHS ACF accounts for approximately 330 awards (covering child welfare, family services, and domestic violence programs); HHS CMS accounts for 98 awards covering Medicaid and CHIP entitlements; USDA Food and Nutrition Service accounts for 191 awards covering SNAP, Summer EBT, Emergency Food Assistance, and related nutrition programs. Secondary customers include the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (formula grants for vocational rehabilitation and independent living services), the Department of Justice Office of Victims of Crime (crime victim assistance funding), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service (local food purchase assistance and cooperative agreements). The vendor operates as a pass-through administrator, frequently sub-awarding portions of federal allocations to county governments, community action agencies, nonprofit organizations, workforce development boards, and local food banks.

Activity spans 903 awards over the past several years, driven by the annual October 1 federal funding cycle and quarterly award mechanics under major entitlements. Nineteen awards reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore face recompete. The Department operates no federal contracts or contract vehicles — the footprint is exclusively grant and cooperative agreement based, reflecting the statutory structure of state human services administration under Title IV-B, Title IV-D, Title IV-E, and related federal social service law.