Recipient of federal assistance · LITTLE ROCK, AR

ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION

ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION received $78.2M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026, on 14 actions, −93% vs FY2025. It has no federal contracts in the loaded years. Since FY2021: $1.3B. Its largest awarding agency was Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development ($88.3M).

Assistance · FY2026
$78.2M
New awards
5
Actions
14
Since FY2021
$1.3B
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Location
LITTLE ROCK, AR
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Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 73.2MFY2021
  2. 60.1MFY2022
  3. 42.6MFY2023
  4. 1.3MFY2024
  5. 1.1BFY2025
  6. 78.2MFY2026

By type

  1. Grants$78.2M100%

Top programs · Awarding agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Top programs

  1. 14.228 · Community Development Block Grants/State's Program and Non-Entitlement Grants in Hawaii$72.7M93%
  2. 14.239 · Home Investment Partnerships Program$9.1M12%
  3. 14.275 · Housing Trust Fund$2.8M3.6%
  4. 14.231 · Emergency Solutions Grant Program$2.3M2.9%
  5. 14.241 · Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS$1.5M1.9%
  6. 11.032 · State Digital Equity Planning and Capacity Grant-$10.1M0.0%

Awarding agencies

  1. Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development$88.3M100%
    Department of Housing and Urban Development

Largest awards

  1. PURPOSE: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT DISASTER RECOVERY (CDBG-DR) AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT MITIGATION (CDBG-MIT) GRANT…$59M
    14.228 · Community Development Block Grants/State's Program and Non-Entitlement Grants in Hawaii· Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development· Project grant· Apr 29, 2025 – Dec 23, 2025· B-25-DU-05-0001
  2. PURPOSE: THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) PROGRAM PROVIDES ANNUAL GRANTS ON A FORMULA BASIS TO STATES, CITIES, AND COUNTIES TO…$17.6M
    14.228 · Community Development Block Grants/State's Program and Non-Entitlement Grants in Hawaii· Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development· Formula grant· Mar 3, 2026 – Mar 3, 2026· B-25-DC-05-0001
  3. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS/STATE'S PROGRAM AND NON-ENTITLEMENT GRANTS IN HAWAII$16.7M
    14.228 · Community Development Block Grants/State's Program and Non-Entitlement Grants in Hawaii· Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development· Formula grant· Oct 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· B-18-DC-05-0001
  4. PURPOSE: THE HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM (HOME) PROVIDES NEED-BASED FORMULA GRANTS TO STATES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS THAT ARE USED…$9.1M
    14.239 · Home Investment Partnerships Program· Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development· Formula grant· Mar 3, 2026 – Mar 3, 2026· M25-SG050100
  5. PURPOSE: THE HOUSING TRUST FUND (HTF) WAS ESTABLISHED BY THE HOUSING AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY ACT OF 2008 TO PROVIDE FUNDS TO GRANTEES FOR…$3M
    14.275 · Housing Trust Fund· Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development· Formula grant· Mar 3, 2026 – Mar 3, 2026· F25-SG050100
  6. HOUSING TRUST FUND$2.8M
    14.275 · Housing Trust Fund· Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development· Formula grant· Dec 2, 2022 – Dec 10, 2025· F20-SG050100

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $269.8M (49 subawards)

49 sub-recipients

  1. HOMETOWN INTERNET, LLC$88.5M33%
    BERRYVILLE, AR · 1 subaward
  2. ARISTOTLE UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS INC$69M26%
    LITTLE ROCK, AR · 1 subaward
  3. CONNECT HOLDING II LLC$26.3M9.7%
    PURCHASE, NY · 1 subaward
  4. TEXHOMA FIBER LLC$19.4M7.2%
    LAWTON, OK · 1 subaward
  5. CG COMPUTER WORKS LLC$14.7M5.4%
    LITTLE ROCK, AR · 1 subaward
  6. NORTHERN ARKANSAS TELEPHONE COMPANY$12.8M4.7%
    FLIPPIN, AR · 1 subaward
  7. SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP.$9.2M3.4%
    HAWTHORNE, CA · 1 subaward
  8. COUNTY OF DREW$6M2.2%
    MONTICELLO, AR · 1 subaward
  9. WINDSTREAM ARKANSAS, LLC$5M1.9%
    LITTLE ROCK, AR · 1 subaward
  10. CALHOUN COUNTY$2M0.7%
    HAMPTON, AR · 1 subaward

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

No subawards reported to it in FY2026.

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $3.9M paid out · $161.5K received
  • FY2022: $335.9K paid out · $0 received
  • FY2023: $5.2M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2024: $9.1M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2025: $21.6M paid out · $0 received
  • FY2026: $269.8M paid out · $0 received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 10, 2026, loaded Oct 10, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.