Bear River Band Of The Rohnerville Rancheria

Bear River Band Of The Rohnerville Rancheria, operating as Bear River Pump & Play, is a federally recognized Native American tribe headquartered in Loleta, California, that acts as a prime recipient for federal grants spanning social services, infrastructure, and community development; the tribe holds no federal contract vehicles and no contract prime awards except for a single $40,060 firm fixed-price contract completed in 2024 with the Morris K. Udall Foundation for tribal cultural landscape assessment investigative services.

The tribe's federal footprint is almost entirely grant-based. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 54% of recent awards and include the Department of Housing and Urban Development Public and Indian Housing Office (28 awards), the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (17 awards), the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (16 awards), the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (15 awards), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (11 awards). Combined obligated federal dollars across all 161 awards total $39.1 million, with 33 distinct federal customer agencies served.

Grant activity splits across child care and early childhood development, child support enforcement, transportation infrastructure, library services and cultural preservation, disaster recovery and emergency management, victims' services, renewable energy capacity building, and community economic development. Representative grants include Child Care and Development Block Grant and Formula awards from the Office of Child Care (multiple awards, 2022–2028 performance windows), Tribal Transportation Program formula grants from the Federal Highway Administration ($137,045 to $225,748 per award, recurring FY 2022–2026), Native American Library Services and historic preservation grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (multiple awards through 2028), Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Program grants from the Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime (CFDA 16.841, $347,240 and $354,375 awards, 2022–2027 and 2023–2027 completion), Child Support Services block grant from the Office of Child Support Enforcement (CFDA 93.563, $882,353 for FY 2026), Indian Tribal Water Resources Development, Management, and Protection grant from the Bureau of Reclamation ($394,859 for erosion control and flooding remediation on the 174-acre rancheria, completion August 2027), disaster recovery and public assistance grants from FEMA (multiple awards including $230,833 for COVID-19 emergency protective measures and hazard mitigation funding), and economic development planning and Indian Community Development Block Grants. Activity was flat to declining over the past five years—13 awards in 2022, dropping to 3 in the first ten months of 2026—with ten awards (combined potential value unspecified) facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The tribe competes exclusively as a prime recipient on formula grants, set-asides, and discretionary grants reserved for federally recognized tribal governments; it does not pursue or hold federal contract vehicles, GWACs, or agency-wide IDIQs.