County Of Nevada

County Of Nevada, a U.S. local government entity headquartered in Nevada City, California, receives federal grants as a prime recipient on 42 percent of its recent awards and acts as a sub-recipient on 58 percent, with work spanning domestic violence victim services, wildfire mitigation, homelessness prevention, airport infrastructure, law enforcement, public health, and child welfare across multiple federal agencies and California state pass-through grantors. The county operates three named fire protection district subsidiaries: Ophir Hill Fire Protection, Higgins Area Fire Protection District, and Nevada County Consolidated Fire District, which support the county's broader community safety and emergency management mission.

County Of Nevada's federal footprint is dominated by grant work rather than federal contracts. Among 279 total awards tracked across prime and sub positions from 2000 through August 2026, the county holds only one firm fixed-price purchase order on the contract side — a $122,236 Department of Defense law enforcement services award for Englebright Lake (awarded July 8, 2025, with completion extending to June 30, 2030). The vast majority of federal dollars flow through grants. Recent major prime grant recipients include the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region ($2.296 million cooperative agreement awarded August 10, 2026, for prescribed fire, hazardous fuel reduction, and fire line treatment on 893 acres across California), the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women ($700,000 project grant awarded April 1, 2026, for a Family Justice Center, lethality assessments, sexual assault policy audits, and training for investigators and prosecutors; and $500,000 awarded October 1, 2025, under the Rural Domestic Violence Program for victim services in partnership with Community Beyond Violence), the Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (recurring Continuum of Care Program project grants for homeless housing and supportive services, including $208,071 awarded November 1, 2025, through October 31, 2026), the Community Oriented Policing Services Office ($175,000 Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grant awarded October 1, 2025, for narcotics detection equipment and software), the Federal Aviation Administration ($279,634.74 and $543,469.47 formula and project grants awarded September 2025 for Grass Valley airport taxilane and access road reconstruction), and the USDA Rural Utilities Service ($1.05 million community facilities grant awarded September 30, 2025, for essential community infrastructure including public safety).

Customer concentration is broad across domestic civilian agencies, with the top five federal and state customers accounting for 38 percent of award count. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Continuum of Care program anchors 31 awards (Continuum of Care Program, CFDA 14.267), the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration carries 27 awards (primarily state-pass-through sub-awards for road and bridge infrastructure), the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service holds 24 awards (largely WIC and emergency food assistance sub-awards from California Department of Public Health), the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families accounts for 14 awards (foster care, child welfare, and family preservation sub-awards), and the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance tracks 11 awards (victim services, crisis intervention, narcotics interdiction, and emergency management sub-awards). By potential-value dollars, the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Sacramento leads with 8 awards carrying $316,000 combined potential value (largely the single Englebright Lake contract and related project work), followed by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service with 10 awards at $8,000 combined potential value — a data anomaly suggesting that Forest Service cooperative agreements carry obligated funding far exceeding the nominal potential-value ceiling in the database. County Of Nevada's sub-award portfolio is heavily state-administered: the California Department of Public Health channels WIC, immunization, home visiting, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS housing, and disease prevention funds; the California Department of Social Services administers TANF, foster care, family preservation, child care, and adoption assistance; and the California Board of State and Community Corrections pass through DOJ-funded corrections and crisis intervention grants for the Nevada County Sheriff's Office.

Activity has grown substantially year over year, from 13 awards in 2022 to a peak of 63 in 2024, settling at 57 in 2025 and 22 through August 2026. Nine awards carrying unspecified potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure for the county and opportunity for competitors on those grant renewals. The combined obligated funding across all 279 awards totals $154.2 million against a combined potential-value tag of $387,000 — an extreme ratio that reflects the source data's treatment of ongoing cooperative agreements and formula grants with multi-year, open-ended funding as low nominal-ceiling awards while obligated dollars accumulate across performance periods. County Of Nevada's grant work is characterized by multi-year cooperative agreements and project grants with performance periods extending five to ten years, particularly on Forest Service and USDA wildfire mitigation and ecosystem restoration work.