Nortex Regional Planning Commission

Nortex Regional Planning Commission, doing business as Area Agency On Aging, is a U.S. local government entity and council of governments headquartered in Wichita Falls, Texas that receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient and subrecipient across aging services, workforce development, homelessness prevention, and regional planning programs. The organization acts exclusively in a grant-recipient capacity rather than as a federal contractor, with 29% of its recent awards as prime recipient and 71% as subrecipient under state and federal pass-through grantees.

The organization's federal footprint centers on five primary funding streams. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living leads the prime grant portfolio through recurring Continuum of Care (CoC) Program awards (CFDA 14.267) for rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and transitional housing services in the Wichita Falls region — recent prime grants include $332,075 (January 2026 through December 2026), $327,458 (January 2025 through December 2025), and $309,235 (January 2024 through December 2024). The Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration funds a three-year Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) grant awarded January 2024 through December 2026, supporting regional economic development planning. Nortex operates as subrecipient to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and Texas Workforce Commission on a sustained volume of workforce innovation, child care development, aging services coordination, and community living programs — including Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act allocations (adult, youth, and dislocated worker tracks), Child Care and Development Fund quality and formula activities, Wagner-Peyser employment services, Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Assistance, and aging-focused programs such as Community Living and Special Programs for the Aging. The organization also receives subrecipient allocations from the Texas Division of Emergency Management for mitigation plan updates and hazard assessment work.

Customer concentration is pronounced. The top five federal agencies account for 73% of recent award volume, led by the Administration for Community Living (36 awards), the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration (27 awards), the Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (20 awards), the Administration for Children and Families (17 awards), and the Economic Development Administration (9 awards). Of the 149 total awards in the source data, 149 are grant awards with no contract or GWAC participation.

Activity has grown substantially year over year. Awards totaled three in 2022, increased to thirty-two in 2023, settled to twenty-seven in 2024, then expanded to forty in 2025. Only five awards in the source carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, signaling minimal recompete pressure in the immediate pipeline. Combined dollars obligated across all historical grants reach $47.4 million, with recent annual volumes ranging from $300 thousand to $1.2 million per individual prime CoC award and larger subrecipient allocations distributed across the workforce and aging-services portfolios. Place of performance is the Nortex region of North Texas, encompassing Wichita Falls and surrounding counties in support of the organization's role as a regional planning and aging-services coordinating entity.