Chickahominy Indian Tribe

Chickahominy Indian Tribe, operating as Chickahominy Indian Tribe Inc., is a federally recognized tribal government based in Providence Forge, Virginia, that acts as a recipient of federal grants across health, infrastructure, child care, environmental, and workforce development programs. The tribe competes exclusively as a grant recipient rather than a federal contractor, with 95% of its award footprint comprising prime grants, cooperative agreements, and project awards from federal agencies, and 5% as a sub-recipient on grants administered by larger tribal and nonprofit intermediaries.

The tribe's federal funding portfolio spans 60 awards obligating $55.7 million across sixteen distinct agencies since 2022, with significant concentration among two customer agencies. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families leads by award count with 21 grants supporting child care development and services; the Administration for Community Living (part of HHS) accounts for 11 awards focused on elder services under the Older Americans Act. Together these two HHS entities account for 72% of recent awards. Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 and the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Public and Indian Housing Office each hold four awards; the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs Eastern Region holds three. Additional funders include the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Administration for Native Americans, the Economic Development Administration, and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

The tribe's capability footprint centers on community health and social services, particularly child care administration and elder support. Representative prime grants include a $1.7 million Child Care and Development Block Grant from HHS Administration for Children and Families (awarded October 2025, running through September 2028) to function as lead agency providing child care subsidies and quality improvement initiatives to low-income tribal families; multiple formula grants under the Older Americans Act Title VI, Part A and the OAA Nutrition Services Incentive Program from the Administration on Aging (most recently April 2026, three-year awards) supporting nutrition and supportive services to tribal members aged 60 and older; and a $336,060 cooperative agreement from the Indian Health Service Health Management Development Program (awarded September 2025) to establish the Weaving Pathways of Care initiative, deploying a dedicated Brain Health Navigator to serve tribal citizens with dementia and their caregivers. Environmental and infrastructure grants include EPA Region 3 project awards for wetlands and air quality program development, and a $200,000 Economic Development Administration project grant for preliminary engineering on a childcare center serving Providence Forge and surrounding counties. The tribe has also received awards for broadband infrastructure planning and deployment, cultural and language revitalization, youth mental health capacity-building, and diabetes prevention and chronic disease management.

Recent activity shows volatility year to year—seven awards in 2022, thirteen in 2023, five in 2024, seven in 2025, and three awards to date in 2026—reflecting the episodic nature of competitive and discretionary grants. The tribe faces recompete exposure on twelve awards (combined completion within the next twenty-four months), including multiple child care block grants, cooperative agreements in health and environmental programs, and broadband infrastructure initiatives. In its sub-recipient role, the tribe receives funding through United South & Eastern Tribes Inc. for chronic disease prevention work (February 2025) and through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for coastal resilience and shoreline erosion mitigation along the James and Chickahominy Rivers, addressing habitat protection and sea level rise adaptation (awards dated February and April 2025, and April 2023 respectively).