Region 10 League For Economic Assistance And Planning, Inc.

Region 10 League For Economic Assistance And Planning, Inc. is a Colorado-based tax-exempt nonprofit that operates as a federal grant recipient, delivering senior services, small business lending, and regional economic development programming to six-county western Colorado (Delta, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Montrose, Ouray, and San Miguel counties). The organization functions simultaneously as a prime recipient on direct federal grants and as a sub-recipient flowing federal funds from state pass-through entities, with 42% of recent awards held as prime grants and 58% as sub-awards beneath state administering agencies.

The organization's federal footprint sits almost entirely in the aging and economic development space. Its primary role is as an Area Agency on Aging serving the region under the Older Americans Act, with substantial sub-award volume flowing from the Colorado Department of Human Services as the state unit administering Older Americans Act funding. Region 10 also holds direct prime grants from the Corporation for National and Community Service for the AmeriCorps Seniors Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP, CFDA 94.002), having received $102,778 on June 25, 2026, for the 2026-27 RSVP program period through March 31, 2029. Under that award, Region 10 recruits and manages volunteers ages 55 and older to deliver home-delivered meals, food bank operations, transportation, senior companion care, respite services, and handyman services for older adults and veterans across the four-county service area. Region 10 also holds prime grants for AmeriCorps Seniors Senior Companion Program (SCP) and prior-year RSVP programming. In the small business and economic development domain, Region 10 received $306,154 from the Small Business Administration Microloan Program (CFDA 59.046) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and $292,161 for the year ending June 30, 2025, providing microloans up to $50,000 and technical assistance to entrepreneurs in underserved counties. Region 10 also held a $962,500 Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration grant (CFDA 11.302) running from July 1, 2022, through March 31, 2025, to develop and implement a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) for the six-county region, bringing public and private sector stakeholders together to create an economic development roadmap.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward aging-services funding streams. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living accounts for 49 of 89 recent awards, with the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (10 awards), the Small Business Administration Office of Capital Access (7 awards), the Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management (7 awards), and the Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service (4 awards) comprising the remainder of meaningful concentration. These five agencies represent 87% of all recent awards. Activity has accelerated significantly — from two awards each in 2022 and 2023 to seventeen in 2024 and twenty-eight in 2025, with eleven awards year-to-date in 2026. Only two awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, indicating limited recompete cliff exposure in the near term. Sub-award relationships flow predominantly through the Colorado Department of Human Services (aging services pass-throughs) and the National Council on the Aging (a March 31, 2026 sub-award focused on expanding federal and state benefits access for low-income older adults and persons with disabilities). Region 10's federal grant work does not include contracts or contract sub-awards; the organization operates entirely within the grant and sub-grant funding landscape.