Southwest Kansas Area Agency On Aging, Inc.

Southwest Kansas Area Agency On Aging, Inc., a Kansas-based nonprofit tax-exempt entity, operates exclusively as a federal grant sub-recipient, delivering senior services and digital literacy programs across rural southwest Kansas under sub-awards flowing from the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services and the Executive Office of the State of Kansas.

The organization's federal footprint is entirely grant-based, with no contract prime or subcontract presence. Twenty-five sub-grant awards over the past five years carry a combined obligated value of $3.6 million. All work flows through two Kansas state administrative grantees: the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services passes through the vast majority of sub-awards (24 of 25), while the Executive Office of the State of Kansas issued one recent sub-award for digital literacy and device provision.

The underlying federal funding streams are rooted in the Administration for Community Living (ACL), part of the Department of Health and Human Services. The sub-award portfolio centers on Older Americans Act programs—specifically Supportive Services, Preventative Health, Family Caregiver Support, Congregate Meals, and Home Delivered Meals—plus Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) funding directed to the Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC), SHIP (State Health Insurance Assistance Program), Senior Health Insurance Information for Kansas (SHICK), and the Supplemental Health Insurance Counseling for the Elderly (SHIP) program. A Medicare fraud prevention initiative sub-award (SMP) also appears in the record. Most recently, a September 2025 sub-award from the Executive Office of the State of Kansas funds the provision of devices and digital literacy training to seniors across 28 rural counties in southwest Kansas.

Activity has remained flat across the measurement window (five awards per year in 2021–2024, four in 2025 year-to-date), with annual sub-awards arriving in October (Older Americans Act programs and nutrition funding) and spring (SHICK annual cycles). The organization serves one federal customer agency—the Administration for Community Living—through two state intermediaries. With no contract vehicle presence and no prime contracting footprint, Southwest Kansas Area Agency On Aging operates solely within the federal grant administration stream as a regional sub-recipient delivering aging-services programming to rural seniors in its geographic service area.