Western Indiana Community Action Agency, Inc.

Western Indiana Community Action Agency, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Terre Haute, Indiana, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering early childhood education, senior volunteer engagement, and community services programs to low-income families and seniors across west central Indiana. The organization acts primarily as a sub-recipient (79% of recent awards) flowing federal funds through Indiana state agencies, with a smaller footprint of direct prime grants from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children and Families and the Corporation for National and Community Service.

WICAA's grant portfolio centers on three core capability areas. Head Start and Early Head Start programs, funded under CFDA 93.600, comprise the largest prime award stream—most recently a $3.64 million five-year Head Start and Early Head Start Project Grant awarded May 1, 2026, running through April 30, 2031, providing comprehensive early childhood education, health and nutritional support, social-emotional development, and family engagement services to three- and four-year-olds and infants and toddlers in Clay, Putnam, and Vigo Counties. AmeriCorps Seniors programs represent the second major prime capability: a $779,440 Foster Grandparent Program grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CFDA 94.011), awarded September 10, 2025, funds intergenerational mentoring and tutoring by volunteers aged 55 and older delivering academic support and literacy instruction to children with special needs or academic disadvantage through June 30, 2028. A Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) grant under the Corporation for National and Community Service completes the AmeriCorps footprint, with an award dated April 1, 2024, running through March 31, 2027.

Customer concentration is heavily tilted toward HHS Administration for Children and Families (43 awards) and the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (31 awards), accounting for 90% of recent awards. However, the majority of WICAA's dollar volume flows through sub-recipient arrangements with the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority—administering the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP), and Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) allocations for the three-county service area—and the Indiana Department of Education, which passes through education grant allocations on a monthly basis. Sub-awards from the Indiana Department of Health fund Women, Infants & Children (WIC) administration. The organization carries a 20 percent non-federal match requirement on its Head Start awards and 10 percent statutory and budgetary match obligations on AmeriCorps Seniors programs.

Activity shows 105 total awards across a fourteen-year snapshot, with notable uptick in 2023 (39 awards, largely driven by sub-award pass-throughs) and stabilization at 13 awards annually in 2024–2026. Only 2 awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete cliff exposure in the near term. WICAA's operating posture as a community action agency makes it a sub-recipient conduit for federal antipoverty and social services funding channeled through state intermediaries rather than a direct federal contractor, positioning the organization as an implementation partner rather than a competitive vendor in federal procurement markets.