Alliance Of Indiana Rural Water, Inc.

Alliance Of Indiana Rural Water, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Franklin, Indiana, serves rural and small drinking water systems across the United States through federal grant sub-awards focused on technical assistance, operator training, and compliance support. The organization operates almost exclusively as a grant sub-recipient (94% of recent awards) rather than as a prime recipient or contractor, receiving funding through the National Rural Water Association and the Indiana Department of Workforce Development to deploy field specialists and circuit riders to water systems serving populations of 10,000 or less.

The vendor's award footprint is concentrated among water-sector and workforce-development agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency Office for Water funds eight of sixteen recent awards, while the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service accounts for five awards; together these two funding offices represent 81% of the vendor's award count. The Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration, the NRCS, and USDA Rural Housing Service round out the customer set. Combined dollars obligated across all awards through the source snapshot total $1.7 million, with award volume growing from one grant sub-award in 2022 to six in 2025. Most recent activity includes two awards dated mid-2026: a contract sub-award effective May 1, 2026, under the National Rural Water Association circuit-rider program, and a grant sub-award dated July 7, 2026, under the Indiana Department of Workforce Development's apprenticeship initiative.

Alliance Of Indiana Rural Water acts as a named sub-recipient on repeated grant awards through the National Rural Water Association. Since 2023, the organization has held multiple concurrent sub-grants funding specialized field roles — Water Quality Action Specialists who provide hands-on training and technical assistance to wastewater treatment works and decentralized systems; Training Specialists who work with tribal, small, and rural public water systems on Safe Drinking Water Act compliance and long-term sustainability; Wastewater Technicians and Energy Efficiency Technicians who support system operations; an Apprenticeship Coordinator for the water sector; and a Funding Specialist who coaches systems on financing planning and acquisition. The vendor's prime grant work consists of a single cooperative agreement with the NRCS, dated September 1, 2022 (completed May 1, 2024), focused on promoting USDA conservation programs in source water protection areas.

Service Contract Inventory data shows minimal SCI-reportable federal services activity: three SCI records spanning FY2022 through FY2025, all under named subcontractor positions, with roughly 3.0–3.2 FTEs reported per fiscal year. SCI is a partial lens on the organization's federal footprint and excludes grant sub-recipient work; the award portfolio indicates the vendor's federal engagement is primarily grant-funded technical assistance delivery rather than fee-for-service contracting. The vendor's model aligns with the National Rural Water Association's broader circuit-rider and technical-assistance network, positioning Alliance Of Indiana Rural Water as a delivery extension for federal water and workforce-development policy in Indiana and surrounding regions.