County Of Cook

County Of Cook, a Minnesota county government entity based in Grand Marais, operates as a federal grant recipient (67% of recent awards as prime recipient) and subgrantee, delivering airport infrastructure improvements, wildlife management, and crime-victim services across northern Minnesota. The county is not a federal contractor in the traditional sense — it holds no federal contract prime awards and sits on no IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs — but maintains an active grant portfolio anchored to civilian agencies, particularly the Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Agriculture.

County Of Cook's grant work centers on airport capital improvements and planning. The FAA Great Lakes Region awarded the county $172,549.47 under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) in September 2025 to fund Phase 1 design activities for taxilane reconstruction and rehabilitation at Grand Marais airport, with a completion date of September 2029. An earlier FAA grant, awarded August 2022, provided $466,863 (multi-year, fiscal 2022–2023) to update the Grand Marais airport master plan narrative report and layout plan, concluding July 2026. A January 2022 American Rescue Plan Act grant from the FAA Great Lakes Region delivered economic relief for airport operations, personnel, cleaning, and debt service in response to COVID-19, running through January 2026. The county also received a $148,961.26 cooperative agreement from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 (CFDA 15.608, Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance) in November 2021 to replace Junco Creek Bridge in support of aquatic nuisance species control, completing September 2025.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the FAA Great Lakes Region (12 awards across the portfolio). The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime (7 awards), the Department of Agriculture Forest Service (6 awards), and the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (3 awards) round out the top funding sources. Only one award in the source data carries a documented potential value figure of $24,000 — a June 2026 purchase order from a Midwest Region civilian agency for lease support services in Grand Portage, Minnesota, due by October 2026 — suggesting the portfolio's dollar data is heavily obligated historical work rather than forward pipeline.

In its subgrantee role, County Of Cook receives pass-through funding from the Minnesota Department of Transportation for Gunflint Trail and Bridge Replacement projects (multiple sub-awards in 2023–2025), from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety for direct crime-victim services (multiple sub-awards 2021–2025) and disaster-response activities, and from the University of Minnesota for Rural Communities Opioid Response implementation. The county's named subsidiary, Cook County Soil and Water Conservation District, is a local government entity but does not appear as a separate awardee in the source data.