Southeastern Vermont Community Action, Inc.

Southeastern Vermont Community Action, Inc. operates as a tax-exempt nonprofit community development corporation based in Westminster, Vermont, that acts as a recipient of federal grants focused on rural housing preservation, early childhood education, food assistance, weatherization, and emergency heating services — with most work flowing through state agency pass-throughs rather than direct federal prime awards. The organization receives the majority of its federal funding as a sub-recipient (66% of recent awards) under state-administered grant programs, with a smaller portfolio of direct prime grants from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Head Start and the Department of Agriculture's Single Family Housing Program.

The organization's customer concentration flows through state intermediaries. The top five funding sources account for 86% of recent awards and center on the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (22 awards), the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (14 awards), the Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service (9 awards), the Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service Single Family Housing Program (6 awards), and the Department of Energy (5 awards). The Vermont Agency of Human Services and the Vermont State Agency of Education act as prime grantees that flow sub-awards to Southeastern Vermont Community Action, making those state entities the effective administrative touchpoints for roughly half the organization's federal footprint. Recent prime grants include a Rural Housing Preservation Grant from USDA with an ultimate completion date of August 30, 2027, awarded July 30, 2026; a Head Start project grant from the Office of Head Start running through June 30, 2030, awarded July 1, 2025; and a prior Rural Housing Preservation Grant with completion dated August 16, 2026, awarded July 16, 2025. Sub-recipient work encompasses Child and Adult Food programs, Community Services Block Grants, DOE Weatherization Assistance Program funding, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act weatherization, emergency heating system grants, and crisis fuel services — with awards documented across 2023 through September 2026.

Activity has grown year over year from two awards in 2021 to twenty-two in 2025, though 2026 activity remains partial in the source (eight awards as of mid-September). The combined dollars obligated across all awards is $41.9 million. Only one award carries an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months, substantially reducing near-term recompete exposure. The organization does not hold federal contract vehicles, IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs, and therefore does not serve as a prime contractor or vehicle host for other vendors. Southeastern Vermont Community Action's federal footprint is characteristic of community action agencies — grant-dependent, state-pass-through-heavy, geographically anchored to a single region (southeastern Vermont), and focused on direct service delivery in housing, nutrition, heating assistance, and early childhood development rather than procurement or professional services contracting.