The Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy

The Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy is a tax-exempt nonprofit education organization headquartered in Oregon House, California, that receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient and participates in sub-recipient grant work from the Department of Education and the Department of Agriculture. The organization operates exclusively in the federal grant space — no contracts or contract vehicles — and does not have federal contract prime awardees.

Yuba Environmental Science Charter Academy's federal footprint centers on Department of Education funding through the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. The organization has received five consecutive annual prime grants under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program (formula grant assistance type) from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, with awards dated July 1 of each year from 2022 through 2026, with ultimate completion dates running through September 30, 2027. The organization also participates as a sub-recipient in multiple education and nutrition-focused grant programs flowing through the Department of Education California and Boise State University. Sub-recipient work includes the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program (cash grants and food donations for school meal services), Improving Teacher Quality State Grants (teacher and principal quality improvement), Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies (academic achievement in high-poverty schools), Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (elementary school nutrition), English Language Acquisition Grants (English proficiency for limited English proficient students), and a multi-year school meal program implementation research project as co-investigator under Boise State University (2024–2030, involving process evaluation and case studies across 70 districts with dissemination through federal partners). The organization also received two COVID-19 pandemic response sub-grants from the Department of Education California in 2022.

The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education represents 17 of 23 total awards (96% coverage across top customers by award count); the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service accounts for the remaining awards. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $651 thousand, reflecting the modest scale typical of rural K-12 education recipients. Activity has accelerated in 2026 (eight awards in the past year) after slower periods in 2023 and 2024. The organization operates on a 50% prime / 50% sub-recipient split. No awards face recompete cliff completion within the next twenty-four months based on the source.