Save The Children Federation, Inc.

Save The Children Federation, Inc., doing business as Save The Children, is a non-profit tax-exempt organization headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, that serves as a prime recipient of federal grants and cooperative agreements, delivering humanitarian aid, development assistance, and emergency response services to vulnerable populations globally. The organization holds a 2 million dollar ceiling Federal Supply Schedule contract with the General Services Administration and operates as a grant recipient across 63 distinct federal agencies, with a 92% prime-recipient footprint across 888 recent awards spanning contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements.

Save The Children's federal portfolio concentrates overwhelmingly in humanitarian and international development work: food security, nutrition, health, water and sanitation, child protection, education, disaster risk reduction, and cash assistance programming in crisis-affected regions worldwide. Representative prime grant work includes a 28 million dollar McGovern-Dole Food for Education cooperative agreement with USDA for school feeding, teacher training, and maternal-child nutrition in Guatemala; a 15 million dollar USAID foreign assistance grant for emergency food and nutrition assistance to Venezuelan migrants in Peru; a 10 million dollar USAID award for integrated emergency health, water, sanitation, nutrition, protection and coordination services in South Sudan; a 6.334 million dollar USAID cooperative agreement for education and resilience in Burkina Faso; a 2.5 million dollar State Department Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement award for trafficking in persons prevention campaigns in Bolivia; and multiple AmeriCorps Seniors Foster Grandparent Program grants through the Corporation for National and Community Service, ranging from $241,299 to $495,862, delivering intergenerational mentoring and educational support for children in New Mexico and other states. Save The Children also received a 3.666 million dollar USAID contract for household economy approach implementation in Ethiopia and maintains an active sub-award portfolio under larger prime grantees including Research Triangle Institute, Mercy Corps, Chemonics International, and World Vision.

Customer concentration sits heavily with USAID and its subordinate bureaus: the US Agency for International Development overall anchors 379 awards, with the Department of State Bureau of Population Refugees and Migration placing 174 awards, and USAID's Bureau for Management and Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance adding 70 and 48 awards respectively—together accounting for 78% of recent award counts. By potential value, USAID Ethiopia dominates with 11 awards valued at 92.5 million dollars combined, followed distantly by USAID Mexico at 3.7 million dollars across 4 awards. The two customer rankings track tightly; USAID is both the volume and dollar leader. The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education rounds out the top five customer agencies with 24 awards supporting literacy, education, and community engagement initiatives domestically.

Activity trended upward through 2024—46 awards in 2022, 58 in 2023, 68 in 2024—before declining to 9 awards in 2025 and 6 in 2026, likely reflecting the age of the source snapshot and incomplete fiscal-year capture. Sixteen awards are reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete opportunity for competitors. Service Contract Inventory data show minimal footprint: only 140 thousand dollars in SCI-reportable invoiced prime revenue across FY2022–FY2024, with a median government-paid rate around 16.93 dollars per hour on the single prime contract with sufficient reporting. Across SCI records, Save The Children deployed roughly 54.7 FTEs to federal service contracts in aggregate across the three-year span, with subcontractor share averaging 0% on prime SCI contracts, indicating the organization builds its own delivery teams on the contracts captured in SCI reporting. However, SCI is a strict subset excluding grants (which dominate Save The Children's federal portfolio) and goods; the hourly-rate posture and FTE trajectory do not represent the organization's total federal services activity or enterprise revenue.

Save The Children operates a subsidiary, Scus Head Start Programs Inc., a non-profit organization. The vendor acts predominantly as a prime recipient on federal grants and cooperative agreements rather than as a subcontractor; across sub-award activity, the organization appears in grant sub-recipient roles under larger consortia and implementing-partner arrangements, particularly under USAID foreign assistance cooperative agreements where Save The Children International (the organization's international affiliate) frequently partners to deliver field implementation in target countries and regions.