Cabazon Band Of Cahuilla Indians

Cabazon Band Of Cahuilla Indians, a federally recognized American Indian tribe headquartered in Indio, California, acts as a federal grant recipient (100% of recent awards) focused on tribal environmental stewardship, broadband infrastructure, library services, and community resilience programs. The tribe operates exclusively as a prime recipient across federal grant programs, with no contract or IDV work and no subcontracting activity.

The Cabazon Band's grant portfolio is heavily concentrated in environmental and tribal capacity-building programs. The Environmental Protection Agency and EPA Region 9 account for 23 of 58 awards in the source period, anchoring the tribe's recent activity. The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Department of the Interior Office of Self Governance round out the top five funding agencies and collectively account for 72% of awards. Environmental work predominates: the tribe has received multiple annual formula grants under CFDA 66.038 (Training, Investigations, and Special Purpose Activities of Federally-Recognized Indian Tribes Consistent With the Clean Water Act) from EPA Region 9, ranging from $81,843 in fiscal 2023 to $120,027 in fiscal 2025, focused on air quality monitoring, emissions assessment, regulatory program development, and community outreach on the Cabazon Reservation. A broader environmental stewardship formula grant from EPA Region 9 (award date October 1, 2022, ultimate completion September 30, 2026, $176,854) funds water quality monitoring, nonpoint source pollution reduction, air quality improvement, and climate integration activities. The tribe also received a $115,859 EPA Region 9 formula grant (October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026) for continued air quality capacity building and community health protection. Beyond environmental work, the Cabazon Band received a National Telecommunications and Information Administration project grant (April 1, 2022 through July 31, 2025) for fiber-optic broadband infrastructure installation serving tribal housing on the reservation, and an August 1, 2026 award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for Native American library services and community information preservation. The tribe received a Department of the Treasury Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund formula grant (November 17, 2022 through December 31, 2026) and a Department of Energy infrastructure formula grant (August 2, 2024 through April 30, 2032). Total obligated dollars across all awards stand at $13.5 million with activity fluctuating between one and four awards per year over the past five years. Only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating limited near-term recompete exposure.