Cheyenne Arapaho Tribe

Cheyenne Arapaho Tribe, a federally recognized tribal government headquartered in Concho, Oklahoma, is a recipient of federal grants and a prime contractor on four consecutive annual Tribal Employment Rights Office (TERO) contracts with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, with no set-aside designation applied. The Tribe operates as a prime recipient across 98% of its recent federal awards and manages a portfolio spanning workforce development, education, child welfare, community services, health initiatives, rural transit, environmental management, and justice system programs.

The Tribe's customer base reflects its role as a direct-service tribal government serving approximately 13,000 to 14,000 enrolled members across nine to eleven counties spanning roughly 8,996 square miles in western Oklahoma. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families dominates the award count with 65 awards across child welfare, child care development, family violence prevention, and low-income assistance programs. The Federal Transit Administration has awarded 22 grants for rural transit operations and capital improvements serving a nine-county area; the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service has provided 21 awards for food distribution and nutrition education; and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued four consecutive TERO contracts valued between $30,000 and $34,900 annually through FY2026. Additional customer agencies include the Department of Education, the Administration on Aging, the Office of Community Services, SAMHSA, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Environmental Protection Agency Region 6, and the National Park Service, reflecting broad federal engagement in tribal governance and service delivery.

Recent grant work exemplifies the Tribe's portfolio scope: an $11 million five-year Education Innovation and Research award from the Department of Education to deliver high-dosage tutoring for early decoding skills acquisition under the Oklahoma Reads project through July 2031; a $3.2 million five-year Head Start program grant from the Office of Head Start for early childhood education and family services in Oklahoma City through December 2030; a $5.803 million three-year Child Care and Development Block Grant to administer child care subsidies and quality improvements across nine to eleven counties through September 2028; a $900,000 five-year Tribal Justice Assistance grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance for court system development and probation services through September 2029; a $496,003 Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to design fiber-to-the-premises networks in Alaska communities and implement workforce development through July 2027; a $3.514 million Fertilizer Product Expansion Program grant from USDA Rural Business Cooperative Services for manufacturing nitrogen, phosphate, and potash fertilizers through January 2027; and multiple federal transit grants totaling $2.1 million for rural transit operations and vehicle replacement. The Tribe also serves as sub-recipient on pass-through grants from the State Department of Education for school meal programs, from Southern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation for tobacco prevention and prescription drug prevention in Native youth, and from the National Arbor Day Foundation for tree-line restoration across six culturally significant sites in Oklahoma.

Activity shows variability year over year—27 awards in 2022, 33 in 2023, declining to 27 in 2024 and 24 in 2025, with 9 awards in 2026 reflecting the first eight months of data. The Tribe faces 23 awards (undisclosed dollar magnitude) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore subject to recompete or continuation determination. The Tribe operates no federal contracts under GWACs, IDIQs, or BPAs; its footprint is entirely grant-based and contract work is limited to four annual EEOC TERO contracts carrying no set-aside. The source identifies no subcontract primes with named sub-awards to Cheyenne Arapaho; the 2% sub-award share reflects the Tribe's role as a sub-recipient on pass-through grants rather than as a subcontractor to private or other public primes. Organizational capacity spans grant administration, tribal court operations, rural transit management, environmental remediation and water quality monitoring, child care administration as a tribal lead agency, workforce development, Head Start operations, tribal historic preservation, and TERO employment rights advocacy.