Bertha-Hewitt Independent School District

Bertha-Hewitt Independent School District, doing business as Bertha Hewitt School, is a U.S. local government entity and public school district based in Bertha, Minnesota, that receives federal education funding as a prime grant recipient under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program administered by the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.

The district operates exclusively within a single federal customer agency. All 27 awards in the source data flow from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, spanning both direct prime grants to the district and pass-through sub-awards from the Minnesota Department of Education. The district holds 67% of recent awards as prime recipient status (18 of 27 awards) and 33% as sub-recipient through Minnesota's state intermediation (9 of 27 awards). The combined dollars obligated across all awards total $1.9 million.

Bertha-Hewitt's federal grant footprint is entirely domestic K–12 education support. The district received direct formula grants from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program in fiscal years 2022 through 2026, with awards issued annually on July 1 and completion dates of September 30. The district also receives sub-award funding routed through the Minnesota Department of Education, designated as pass-through funding under various award numbers (000-414 and 000-401 series), with sub-awards flowing in from October 2025 back through April 2023. The source does not specify dollar magnitudes for individual awards or the programmatic use of the funds within the district.

Activity over the past five years shows one award in 2022, three in 2023, five in 2024, three in 2025, and one in 2026, with modest year-to-year variation and no clear growth trajectory. One award is scheduled to reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The district has no federal contracting activity, no presence on government-wide acquisition contracts, BPAs, or agency IDIQs, and operates solely as an education grant recipient with no subcontracting footprint outside the Department of Education's pass-through structure.