Petersburg Children's Center

Petersburg Children's Center Inc., doing business as Petersburg Childrens Center, is a tax-exempt non-profit organization based in Petersburg, Alaska that participates in the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program as a sub-recipient of grant funding from Alaska's Department of Education & Early Development. The organization operates exclusively in a sub-recipient posture — it holds no prime contracts and no prime grant awards — and draws 100% of its federal funding from a single customer agency, the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, through fifty-six sub-awards spanning 2023 to the present.

Petersburg Children's Center's federal engagement is narrow and specialized. All fifty-six sub-awards relate to the Child and Adult Care Food Program, with each award cycle typically generating two simultaneous sub-awards: one for program meals and one for cash-in-lieu reimbursement. The organization received nine awards in 2023, twenty-three in 2024, fourteen in 2025, and ten through May 2026, reflecting growth and then relative stabilization in award frequency. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total eighty thousand dollars, positioning Petersburg Children's Center as a small-scale recipient of federal nutrition-program funding rather than a contractor or prime grantee. The most recent sub-award was issued on May 28, 2026 by the Alaska Department of Education & Early Development, covering both meals and cash-in-lieu support under the federal program.

The organization's sole federal customer is the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, accessed indirectly through Alaska state administration. This concentration reflects the narrow scope of Petersburg Children's Center's federal participation: it is a daycare or child nutrition facility receiving pass-through funding to provide federal meals and related support to enrolled children, not a vendor or prime contractor with competitive or diverse customer relationships. The organization does not appear on parent government-wide acquisition contracts, schedules, or blanket purchase agreements, and generates no federal revenue outside the Child and Adult Care Food Program channel.