Access Agency, Inc. The

Access Agency, Inc. (doing business as Access Agency Inc.), a Connecticut-based nonprofit organization, is a federal grant recipient delivering human services and community development programs under five federal agencies, with 81% of recent awards flowing through state and local grantees as sub-awards. The organization receives HUD Continuum of Care program grants as a prime recipient and operates overwhelmingly as a sub-recipient under Connecticut state departments, placing the vendor in a social services and poverty-reduction role rather than a federal contractor posture.

Access Agency's federal footprint centers on two dominant customer agencies accounting for 97% of awards. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families supplies 35 awards, primarily child nutrition and food assistance programs administered through Connecticut Department of Education sub-awards. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service supplies 25 awards, likewise routed through Connecticut state entities. The Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development funds five consecutive annual Continuum of Care prime grants (November 2021 through November 2025, with a sixth award expiring October 2026), each designated as project grants for homeless services including permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, and homeless management information systems. HUD's Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control and the Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service round out the remaining customer set with two and five awards respectively. Combined obligated dollars across all seventy-five awards total $38.5 million across a span from 2005 to present.

Activity has grown modestly from eight awards in 2022 to a twelve-award run in 2026, with 2024 marking a peak at sixteen awards. The sub-award portfolio is characterized by recurring Connecticut state-grantee relationships. Access Agency sub-receives child nutrition and food administration work from the Connecticut Department of Education (cash-in-lieu commodities, child care food sponsor administration, child nutrition program block consolidated) on a rolling monthly basis. It sub-receives energy assistance eligibility and fuel-benefit administration from the Connecticut Department of Social Services (Connecticut Energy Assistance Program applications, weatherization program processing, emergency heating prioritization, interpreter services for limited English proficiency households). Case management and human services infrastructure work for greater Windham and Tolland Counties flows through the same Connecticut DSS relationship. Access Agency also sub-receives community services block grant work (poverty reduction, community revitalization, low-income client empowerment) and limited English proficiency services. A standalone sub-award from August 2023 funded $35 thousand in predevelopment expenses for a 96-unit affordable housing renovation project for seniors and disabled persons in Brooklyn, Connecticut. Only one award faces completion in the next twenty-four months, indicating stable renewal patterns across the portfolio.