Dry Creek Rancheria

Dry Creek Rancheria, doing business as Dry Creek Band of Pomo Indians, is a federally recognized Native American tribe headquartered in Santa Rosa, California, operating as a prime recipient of federal grants across housing, transportation, environmental, community development, cultural preservation, and emergency preparedness programs. The tribe does not hold federal contracts as a prime or subcontractor and does not participate in government-wide vehicles; its federal footprint is grant-based, predominantly project and formula grants from 33 distinct federal grantor agencies totaling $74.1 million in combined obligations across 154 awards (97% prime recipient, 3% sub-recipient) tracked in the source data spanning two decades.

The tribe's customer concentration reflects statutory funding streams for federally recognized tribes. The Department of Housing and Urban Development Public and Indian Housing Office leads by award count with 24 grants funding housing assistance, community development block grants, and housing choice voucher administration serving very low-income families, the elderly, and disabled persons in Larkfield-Wikiup and surrounding areas. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families accounts for 21 awards (combined total not separately itemized in the source's top-customers block, which shows duplicate agency lines), with work spanning family services and community support. The Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration provides 12 awards for tribal transportation infrastructure under the Tribal Transportation Program (CFDA 20.289) and Highway Planning and Construction (CFDA 20.205), with recent grants including $605,106 and $255,799 obligated in December 2025 for FY 2026 transportation activities, and multiple awards issued in fiscal 2024 and 2025.

Representative named grant work includes a $1 million Indian Community Development Block Grant from HUD's Public and Indian Housing Office awarded July 13, 2026 (CFDA 14.862), funding community development activities through December 31, 2029 with performance in Larkfield-Wikiup. The tribe administers a Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers program through a $306,600 HUD grant awarded January 29, 2026 (CFDA 14.871), delivering rental assistance to very low-income families, the elderly, and disabled persons through September 30, 2027. The tribe also holds recurring grants for library services and cultural preservation through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, including a Native American Library Services Basics Grant awarded August 1, 2026 (ultimate completion July 31, 2027) supporting library operations, materials acquisition, programming, and staff training for tribal members and the local community. The tribe serves as a Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO) administering Historic Preservation Fund grants from the National Park Service under CFDA 15.904, supporting identification, evaluation, and protection of historic properties on tribal lands under partnership with the National Historic Preservation Act. Environmental programs include a cooperative agreement with EPA Region 9 (October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2027) funding water quality monitoring, watershed restoration, wildfire emergency preparedness, and tribal environmental capacity building with deliverables including water quality data, training documentation, and updated emergency response plans.

Infrastructure and broadband resilience work spans grants from the Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration for hazmat emergency preparedness planning ($132,907 cooperative agreement, February 27, 2025 through February 27, 2030), the Department of Energy's grid resilience formula grant under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law awarded March 11, 2024 (ultimate completion April 30, 2032), and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's broadband and resilience project awarded January 1, 2025 (completion December 31, 2027) installing emergency generators, battery storage, and digital access equipment. The tribe received a $2.4 million Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund formula grant from the Treasury Department (September 16, 2022 through December 31, 2026) for critical capital projects enabling remote work, education, and health monitoring in response to COVID-19, including broadband infrastructure delivering symmetrical speeds of at least 100 Mbps.

Activity has remained steady at five to eight awards annually over the past five years (2022: 7; 2023: 5; 2024: 8; 2025: 8; 2026: 4 awards recorded as of August 2026), with six awards facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore presenting recompete exposure for the tribe. Sub-recipient grant work accounts for four sub-awards, including a $65,000 sub-award (December 10, 2025) supporting project management capacity for the Bi'Du Khaale affordable housing community development in pre-development phase, a $45,000 sub-award (September 18, 2023) for predevelopment capital and affordable housing production, and tenant-based rental assistance sub-award activity (December 3, 2025). The tribe's grant footprint reflects its statutory eligibility as a federally recognized tribe to access dedicated tribal set-asides and formula allocations across federal agencies, with no participation in full-and-open federal contracting.