Rising Star, Inc.

Rising Star, Inc., doing business as Rising Star Child Care And Learning Center, is a woman-owned small business that receives federal grant sub-awards for child nutrition programming as a sub-recipient under the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), funded through the Alaska Department of Education & Early Development as the prime grantee. The company operates exclusively as a sub-recipient — 54 of 54 awards in the source data are sub-awards — and does not hold prime federal contracts, IDIQs, or federal grant prime positions.

Rising Star is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and woman-owned business with no federal contract vehicle participation. The company's entire federal footprint derives from a single grantor agency: the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, which funds all 54 sub-awards through the Alaska Department of Education & Early Development. The company receives biannual or semi-regular sub-awards for CACFP Meals and CACFP Cash in Lieu reimbursements, with award frequency ranging from two to four paired sub-awards per month over the past thirty-six months. Recent sub-awards date to May 7, 2026, indicating continuous active participation in the CACFP program cycle.

Activity has grown from nine awards in 2023 to a peak of nineteen in 2024, with sixteen awards in 2025 and ten in 2026 year-to-date. The combined dollars obligated across all fifty-four sub-awards total $206 thousand, reflecting the sub-recipient reimbursement structure characteristic of CACFP child care facilities. The company's federal footprint is functionally a single-agency, single-program relationship with no diversification across customer agencies, contract vehicles, or service lines. This concentration makes Rising Star's federal revenue stream entirely dependent on continued CACFP participation through Alaska's Department of Education & Early Development, with no demonstrated teaming relationships, prime contractor experience, or exposure to federal contracting vehicles.