Silver Star Inc.

Silver Star Inc., a minority-owned, women-owned, Black American-owned nonprofit organization headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, operates exclusively as a sub-recipient on federal child nutrition and food assistance grants administered by the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), with no prime contracting footprint.

Silver Star's federal activity consists entirely of sub-awards under two recurring USDA FNS grant programs routed through the Tennessee Department of Human Services: the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and the Commodity Nutrition (CN) Block Meals program. Between September 2023 and May 2026, Silver Star received 34 sub-awards with a combined obligation of $830 thousand. The vendor's sub-award mix includes CACFP Child and Adult Care (CIL) reimbursements, CACFP Sponsoring Organization (SP) Administrative support, and CN Block Meals reimbursements. Activity has accelerated markedly — one award in 2023, three in 2024, and fifteen each in 2025 and 2026 through May. The recent award pattern shows monthly or bimonthly sub-awards arriving from Tennessee DHS beginning in late 2024, with both CACFP and CN Block work appearing concurrently on identical dates, suggesting a recurring operational structure tied to program reimbursement and administrative calendars rather than discrete project cycles.

The vendor's nonprofit structure and its exclusive focus on child nutrition assistance programs underscore a mission-driven posture aligned with food-security delivery. All thirty-four awards pass through a single pass-through entity — Tennessee DHS — which maintains the federal grant relationship with USDA FNS. Silver Star holds no parent contract vehicles, no IDIQs, no GWACs, and no prime contracting authority, positioning the vendor as a direct implementer of nutrition services rather than a federal contractor.