North-Central West Virginia Community Action Association, Inc.

North-Central West Virginia Community Action Association, Inc., doing business as Area Schools, is a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Fairmont, West Virginia, that operates as a grant recipient (68% of recent awards as sub-recipient, 32% as prime recipient) delivering transitional housing for homeless veterans, Continuum of Care homelessness-prevention services, Head Start and Early Head Start early childhood education, weatherization assistance for low-income households, and child nutrition support across West Virginia and neighboring regions.

The organization's federal footprint spans eleven customer agencies, with customer concentration in social-services and anti-poverty programming. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service leads by award count with thirty-eight awards (primarily Child and Adult Care Food Program reimbursements flowing through sub-recipient arrangements with the West Virginia Department of Education), followed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development with thirty-one awards (Continuum of Care program grants), and the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families with twenty-one awards (Head Start). By combined potential value, the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration Veterans Integrated Service Network 5 dominates with nine awards totaling $2.7 million, anchored by a $5,938.61 firm fixed price delivery order awarded October 1, 2021, for men's transitional housing support through the Area Schools program and a multi-year per diem grant for operational costs of transitional housing beds for homeless veterans (ultimate completion September 30, 2025). The organization also operates under VA IDIQs: Indefinite Delivery Contract VA24415D0417 (six task orders, $1.5 million combined potential value) and Indefinite Delivery Contract 36C24520D0109 (two task orders, $42 thousand combined potential value).

Prime grant work includes three consecutive years of Continuum of Care project grants from HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (July 1, 2024 through March 31, 2027, with five-year continuation), a Head Start and Early Head Start project grant from the Office of Head Start (July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2029), and a Department of Veterans Affairs per diem grant for homeless veteran transitional housing (August 28, 2023 through September 30, 2025). Sub-recipient activity is extensive, with the West Virginia Department of Education funneling Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) meal reimbursements and cash-in-lieu reimbursements on a monthly or quarterly basis; the WV Division of Economic Development conveying Community Services Block Grant sub-awards and Weatherization Assistance Program funding; the WV Department of Human Services passing emergency heat assistance and home weatherization services sub-awards; and HUD Emergency Solutions Grant sub-awards for homeless assistance. Recent sub-recipient awards include Community Services Block Grant funding (February 12, 2025), emergency heat assistance (December 1, 2024), weatherization assistance (October 23, 2025), Supportive Services for Veteran Families grants (November 1, 2025 and February 24, 2025), and multifamily rental residential development construction in Barbour County, West Virginia (March 18, 2026).

Activity has grown steadily, from eleven awards in 2022 to thirty-three in 2025 (nineteen year-to-date in 2026). The recompete cliff within the next twenty-four months carries one award. Combined obligated dollars ($235 million) substantially exceed combined potential value ($2.8 million), reflecting the organization's role as a pass-through recipient for recurring, high-volume meal reimbursements and block grants that are invoiced and obligated at scale but carry modest per-transaction ceiling values.