Delaware Tribe Of Indians

Delaware Tribe Of Indians, a federally recognized tribal government based in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, operates as a grant recipient across 31 federal agencies and holds a certified 8(a) SBA designation. The tribe acts primarily as a prime recipient (96% of recent awards) on federal grants for social services, child care, elder services, cultural preservation, and community support programs, with a small footprint of fixed-price service contracts for facility and infrastructure work.

The tribe's federal award portfolio reflects its role as a tribal lead agency administering mandatory federal benefit and support programs for Native American communities. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families dominates the award count with 113 grants across child care development, child support enforcement, family violence prevention, and child welfare services. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living supplies 20 awards under Older Americans Act Title VI programs (nutrition, supportive services, and caregiver support for tribal elders aged 60+). The Department of the Interior, through the National Park Service, places 15 awards valued at $397 thousand for tribal monitoring, facility maintenance, and cultural education services. Additional grantor agencies include the Department of Justice (victim services set-asides under CFDA 16.841 and 16.589), the Department of Labor (energy assistance under LIHEAP), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.311 for Native American library services), SAMHSA (tribal opioid response under CFDA 93.720), and the Fish and Wildlife Service (prescribed fire and habitat restoration on tribal trust lands).

Recent grant work includes a $206,840 formula award under the Special Programs for the Aging, Title VI, Part A (CFDA 93.047) from HHS Administration for Community Living (effective April 2026 through March 2029) supporting nutrition and supportive services for tribal elders; a $3.09 million Child Care and Development Block Grant Discretionary award (CFDA 93.575) effective October 2025 through September 2028 positioning the tribe as the designated lead agency for child care subsidies and quality improvement; a $144,253 project grant from IMLS under the Native American and Native Hawaiian Library Services program (CFDA 45.311, October 2025 through September 2027) for three complementary cultural revitalization initiatives (community outreach, reconnection mentorship, and in-person cultural programming); and a $282,632 Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside grant (CFDA 16.841, January 2025 through December 2026) for crime victim services aligned with tribal community values. The tribe also holds recent contracts with the Department of the Interior for tribal monitoring at federal facilities and infrastructure preservation — a $164,701 fixed-price definitive contract (DEWA 251562) for OMR-South tribal monitoring in Warren, New Jersey (awarded March 2024, ultimate completion August 2026), a $38,826 contract for tribal monitoring services in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania (awarded November 2025, completing July 2026), and a $33,514 contract for HVAC rehabilitation and energy conservation measures in Middle City East, Pennsylvania (awarded April 2024, completing November 2025).

Activity has remained relatively steady across the past five years — 18 awards in 2022, 17 in 2023, 21 in 2024, 12 in 2025, and 3 in 2026 — with 22 awards valued at $204 thousand completing within the next twenty-four months. The tribe's dollar obligated across all awards ($96.7 million) significantly exceeds its combined potential value ceiling ($396 thousand), reflecting the formula nature and multi-year performance periods of HHS child care, child support, and aging service awards. The source identifies one subsidiary, Tahkox E2 LLC, a tribally owned small disadvantaged business limited-liability company. As a grant sub-recipient, Delaware Tribe of Indians receives funding flows from Cherokee Nation (child care block grant pass-throughs), the Oklahoma State Attorney General (family violence victim services), the Oklahoma District Attorneys Council (domestic violence transitional housing), the National Congress of American Indians Fund (victim emergency assistance), the State Department of Education (child nutrition reimbursement), and the University of Georgia Research Foundation (sustainable agriculture research participation). The tribe's federal footprint reflects its statutory role as a tribal government administering federal mandatory-benefit programs and delivering culturally tailored services to its jurisdictional population in northeastern Oklahoma and southeastern Kansas.