Town Of Rowe

Town Of Rowe, a Massachusetts municipality headquartered in Rowe, operates as a federal grant recipient, receiving one prime grant award and acting as a sub-recipient on twenty-nine federal education and nutrition sub-awards from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The town is a U.S. local government entity with no federal contracting posture and no involvement in set-aside procurement categories.

Town Of Rowe's federal funding footprint is entirely grant-based and concentrated in child nutrition and special education programs. The town received one prime grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (awarded August 13, 2024, with an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2032) for an Economic Development Initiative community project under Congressional Directed Spending authority. The town's substantive federal engagement flows through sub-awards from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, which serves as the state-level pass-through agent. Eighteen sub-awards address child nutrition programs funded by the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, including the National School Lunch Program, the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, and local food procurement from small businesses and socially disadvantaged farmers. Four sub-awards support special education services for children with disabilities (ages 3–5 and school-age) under the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. Three additional sub-awards fund general school improvement and teacher quality initiatives under the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. One sub-award addresses COVID-19 pandemic response.

Activity accelerated significantly in 2024, rising from five sub-awards in 2023 to twenty-three in 2024, before dropping to two in 2025. Combined dollars obligated across all thirty awards total $842 thousand. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service accounts for eighteen awards (100% of the count distribution covered in the top-customers block), while the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service and the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services each account for four awards. The town holds no parent contract vehicles and does not subcontract to private vendors; all federal engagement occurs either as a direct prime recipient or as a sub-recipient downstream of Massachusetts state-education intermediaries. Town Of Rowe Division is listed as a named subsidiary, though the source does not provide additional detail on its federal engagement or operational scope.