Dolores County School District

Dolores County School District, a local government school district in Dove Creek, Colorado, receives federal grants as a prime recipient from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and as a sub-recipient from the Colorado Department of Education, operating in an exclusively grant-funded posture with no federal contract prime awards or contract vehicles.

The district's federal footprint is bifurcated between two grantor agencies. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service accounts for 35 of the 70 recent awards, while the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 32 awards, together covering 96% of the district's federal grant activity. As a prime recipient, Dolores County holds five consecutive annual Small, Rural School Achievement Program formula grants from the Department of Education, awarded each July 1 from 2022 through 2026, with ultimate completion dates running through September 30, 2027. These formula grants fund rural education programs and support under ESEA Title funding streams. As a sub-recipient, the district receives the overwhelming majority of its federal funding pass-through from the Colorado Department of Education (Board of Education Colorado), including Title II educator development funding, Title IA disadvantaged-student supplemental funding, Title IV student support funding, and multiple nutrition-assistance streams including Nutrition Block grants, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables (FFV) allocations, and Summer EBT programs spanning school years 2023–24 through 2025–26. Sub-grant awards flow monthly or quarterly throughout each fiscal year, with the most recent sub-awards dated July 2026.

Activity has grown sharply from a one-award baseline in 2022 to 22 awards in 2025 and 15 awards in 2026, reflecting the district's increasing participation in federal nutrition and education-support programs passed through the state education authority. The district holds only one award completing within the next twenty-four months (a recompete-cliff exposure that is minimal relative to its active grant portfolio). Combined dollars obligated across all seventy awards total $972 thousand, distributed across nutrition assistance, title-funded student support, and supplemental education services. The district does not serve as a prime contractor on any federal contracts and carries no IDIQ, GWAC, BPA, or schedule vehicle seats. Sub-recipient engagement is exclusively through the Colorado Department of Education as the prime pass-through grantor; the district does not sub-contract with federal prime contractors on supply or service deliveries. The district's federal profile is that of a small rural education authority receiving state-administered federal education and nutrition funding.