Tribal Self-Governance Grants

The Department of the Interior administers Tribal Self-Governance Grants (CFDA 15.023), a program with no recent grant activity; the most recent award was disbursed in September 2003, making this program effectively inactive for over two decades.

The program historically funded project-specific work across Interior's portfolio, including natural resource management planning, exotic plant control, interpretive exhibits and planning, historic structures documentation, riparian assessments, and vegetation mapping at National Park Service and related Interior sites. All 16 awards on record were Project Grants, with no Cooperative Agreements or other assistance types. The Department of the Interior was the sole funding source across the program's entire history.

Between 1998 and 2003, the program disbursed 16 awards totaling $4 million in combined federal obligations. Award volume peaked in 2000 and 2003, with five awards each year. Individual award magnitudes ranged from $3,643 (Historic Structures Report for the Susan B. Anthony House, 2002) to $993,000 (Rivers of Steel Management Plan completion, 2003), with a median around $150,000 to $250,000. Representative awards include $631,000 for implementation of a management plan at an unnamed site (2000), $577,000 for interpretive planning and exhibit design (2002), and $562,500 for a general management plan (2000).

The source contains no open or recently posted grant opportunities under this Assistance Listing. No grant awards have been issued since 2003. Business development professionals should treat this program as dormant unless the Department of the Interior signals renewed funding intent.