Crow Tribe Of Indians

Crow Tribe Of Indians, a federally recognized tribal government based in Crow Agency, Montana, receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient across more than 60 federal agencies, with a portfolio weighted heavily toward domestic social services, environmental remediation, infrastructure, and victim services — not federal contracts. The tribe competes without set-aside restrictions under its sovereign status; recent work reflects the tribal government's direct administration of federal programs and delivery of services to tribal members rather than provision of goods or services to other federal agencies.

The tribe's federal footprint is dominated by federal grants rather than contracts. Recent federal contract work is minimal — five small definitive contracts with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (ranging from $700 to $33,000) supporting the Crow Tribe's Tribal Employment Rights Ordinance (TERO) program, which promotes equal employment opportunities and combats workplace discrimination affecting Native American job seekers and employees. A single $700 purchase order from the Federal Emergency Management Agency funds Crow Fair Tribal Booth registration fees. These contract awards carry no set-aside designation and reflect direct tribal government transactions rather than vendor relationships. Grant work dominates: the tribe has received 423 prime grants from 62 agencies over the source period, with 20 awards completing in the next twenty-four months.

Customer concentration is broad across federal agencies supporting tribal self-determination, governance, and community services. The top five agencies by award count account for 36% of recent awards: the Environmental Protection Agency (43 awards), the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (32 awards), the Department of the Interior Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (29 awards), the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs (28 awards), and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (26 awards with $302 thousand combined potential value). This distribution reflects the tribe's role as recipient of formula grants and project grants spanning environmental management, child care and development funding, abandoned mine land reclamation, surface mining regulation, tribal governance, and civil rights programs.

Representative recent grant work includes a $1.964 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Transportation (CFDA 20.943) for a Crow Tribal Transportation and Transit Facility Improvement Project running through October 2029; a $1.542 million American Indian and Alaska Native Early Head Start grant from the Department of Health and Human Services (CFDA 93.600) funding early childhood development services through June 2030; a $5.441 million Child Care and Development Block Grant (CFDA 93.575) from the Office of Child Care (October 2025 through September 2028); a $1.565 million Federal Highway Administration planning grant (CFDA 20.205) for an Interstate 90 pedestrian crossing project; a $3.333 million Abandoned Mine Land reclamation grant from the Department of the Interior (CFDA 15.252) running through December 2027; and multiple smaller formula grants supporting transit operations, aging services nutrition programs, child welfare social services, surface mining regulation, and victim services. The tribe also received a $282,632 VOCA Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside grant (CFDA 16.841) and a $350,613 Support for Adam Walsh Act Implementation Grant (CFDA 16.750) focused on sex offender registration and SORNA compliance.

The tribe acts as prime recipient on 97% of recent awards and sub-recipient on the remainder, primarily under state and local lead agencies administering federal programs (Montana Department of Health and Human Services, Montana Department of Transportation, Alliance For Green Heat, Inc.). This sub-recipient posture reflects the tribe's participation in state-administered programs such as WIC, public health emergency preparedness, and safe roads initiatives rather than traditional contractor teaming. Activity has been steady — 15 to 23 new awards per year over the past five years — with combined obligated dollars ($243 million) substantially exceeding the combined potential-value ceiling ($3.2 million), indicating that the source captures a long historical tail of older, fully executed grants alongside recently obligated awards. The tribal government structure carries no commercial subsidiaries; the named subsidiary is Crow Tribe Of Indians itself, the parent tribal government entity.