Cahuilla Band Of Indians

Cahuilla Band Of Indians, a federally recognized tribal government headquartered in Anza, California, is a prime recipient of federal grants across social services, public safety, environmental management, infrastructure resilience, and economic development—acting as tribal grant recipient rather than federal contractor, with 97% of its recent award footprint as prime recipient grants.

The Cahuilla Band operates across a diversified federal grant portfolio spanning twenty-seven customer agencies. The top five grantors by award count—the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (12 awards), the Department of the Interior National Park Service (8 awards), the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime (6 awards), the Environmental Protection Agency (6 awards), and the Department of Justice Offices Boards and Divisions (4 awards)—account for 48% of recent awards. Over twenty-five years of documented activity, the Band has obligated $24.8 million across seventy-five prime and sub-recipient grants, with awards declining in volume since 2023 (six awards in 2022, seven in 2023, seven in 2024, four in 2025, and one in 2026).

Recent representative grants illustrate the Band's grant-funded service delivery: a $582,965 Department of Justice Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grant (CFDA 16.710) awarded October 1, 2025, to hire sworn law enforcement officers through September 30, 2030; a $100,000 Department of the Interior Minerals and Mining on Indian Lands award (CFDA 15.038) dated September 22, 2025, funding a comprehensive energy resources study for a resilient microgrid serving a planned Tribal Administration Resilience Campus through September 21, 2027; a $441,989 Department of Justice Victims of Crime Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Program grant (CFDA 16.841) dated January 1, 2025, to implement victim services through December 31, 2027; a $116,931 Federal Emergency Management Agency Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities grant (CFDA 97.047) for infrastructure hardening and climate adaptation through July 30, 2027; an Institute of Museum and Library Services Native American Library Services Basics Grant dated August 1, 2026, supporting library and archival services through July 31, 2027; and a $1.388 million Department of Justice Victims of Crime Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Program five-year grant (CFDA 16.841) running through September 30, 2027. The Band also holds recurring formula grants from the Department of Health and Human Services for Family Violence Prevention and Services (CFDA 93.671), the National Park Service for Historic Preservation Fund Tribal Historic Preservation Office grants (CFDA 15.904), and the Environmental Protection Agency for water quality monitoring and tribal environmental programs. Sub-recipient grants include a Rural Community Assistance Corporation capacity-building award for small business access to capital (May 2024) and a fuel-reduction and defensible-space wildfire mitigation project (September 2022) impacting over 200 residents and seventy buildings across the reservation. Six awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating a recompete and renewal pipeline for the Band's tribal governance and community-services operation.