Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

Great Lakes Community Action Partnership, a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Fremont, Ohio, acts as a prime recipient on 151 federal grants and a sub-recipient on 167 sub-grants, with total federal dollars obligated across all awards reaching $476.1 million. The organization does not hold federal contracts; its footprint is entirely grant-funded, concentrated in early childhood education, homelessness services, rural water and wastewater infrastructure development, and energy assistance programs across the Great Lakes region and subordinate service areas spanning seven states (Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, and Wisconsin).

GLCAP's customer concentration runs heavily toward HHS Administration for Children and Families (65 awards) and HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (59 awards), together accounting for 58% of recent award count. The third through fifth-ranked customers by award volume are EPA Office for Water (24 awards), Department of Energy (21 awards), and USDA Rural Utilities Service (17 awards), serving 24 distinct federal agencies overall. Recent prime-recipient awards include a $6.885 million Early Head Start award from HHS Administration for Children and Families (CFDA 93.600) running through July 31, 2031, a $2.921 million Migrant Head Start award (CFDA 93.600) through December 31, 2026, and a $2.757 million Community Services Block Grant Discretionary Award (CFDA 93.570) for rural water and wastewater infrastructure technical assistance across the seven-state region through September 29, 2030. GLCAP also holds 58 Continuum of Care awards from HUD (CFDA 14.267) totaling over $1.2 million in combined value across fiscal years 2024-2027, supporting permanent housing, rapid rehousing, supportive services, and homeless management information systems in the Fremont region and beyond.

On environmental infrastructure and technical assistance, GLCAP serves as a sub-recipient through the Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP) on multiple EPA-funded cooperative agreements and USDA-funded projects, delivering water quality training, wastewater system capacity building, lead remediation assistance, and post-disaster technical assistance to rural communities and tribal entities. Examples include sub-awards under EPA Region 5's Environmental Finance Center initiative (running through March 31, 2028) to provide finance-related training and technical assistance to disadvantaged systems across the region, and multiple USDA rural water and wastewater TA sub-grants delivered through RCAP. GLCAP also receives sub-awards from Ohio state agencies for Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) funds, Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) grants, Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) pass-throughs, and child care food programs, passing funds to sub-grantees including Indiana Community Action Association Inc. and West Virginia Community Action Partnerships, Inc. on water and wastewater work.

Recent activity shows variation by year — 78 awards in 2023 declining to 43 in 2024, then 23 in 2025 and 12 through August 2026 — with seven awards scheduled for ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure. The organization operates as a sub-recipient on the majority of its portfolio (53%), reflecting its integration into state and national technical-assistance networks (particularly RCAP) rather than as an independent prime. SCI-reported service-contract activity is minimal — 0.2 FTEs invoiced in FY2022 on one sub-award record — indicating that GLCAP's federal footprint runs almost entirely through grants and sub-grants rather than through federal service contracts above the SCI reporting threshold. GLCAP's grant-centric model focuses on direct service delivery to vulnerable populations (families, homeless individuals, low-income households) and capacity building for rural communities facing water infrastructure, energy, and economic-development challenges.