Eastern Shawnee Tribe

Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, a federally recognized Indian tribe headquartered in Wyandotte, Oklahoma, receives federal grants as a prime recipient across health, human services, transportation, environmental, and community development programs serving tribal members and Ottawa County residents. The tribe competes exclusively on set-asides and formula awards reserved for federally recognized tribes and holds no federal prime contracts. The tribe's corporate structure includes Eastern Shawnee Companies, LLC, a tribally owned limited liability company.

The tribe's recent award footprint centers on social services, elder support, youth programming, victim services, and public transit. Concrete recent work includes a $102,072 HUD Indian Housing Block Grant (CFDA 14.867) awarded June 23, 2026, funding affordable housing maintenance, rehabilitation, and housing services for low-income tribal families through September 30, 2035; a $441,989 Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside (CFDA 16.841) awarded January 1, 2025, funding transitional housing, advocacy, and emergency assistance for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking through December 31, 2027; multiple Federal Transit Administration Formula Grants (CFDA 20.509) totaling $1.3 million awarded between September 2025 and July 2023 to operate the Northeast Oklahoma Tribal Transit Consortium on-demand and fixed-route transit services in partnership with Grand Gateway Economic Development Association dba Pelivan Transit; and a $1.9 million SAMHSA Center for Mental Health Services Project Grant (awarded September 30, 2024) delivering suicide prevention and substance-misuse prevention services to at-risk youth ages 10–24 in Ottawa County through September 29, 2029.

Customer concentration across 333 total awards tracked in the source spans 38 distinct federal agencies, with the top five funding sources covering 52% of recent awards. The Department of Health and Human Services dominates the footprint—the Administration for Children and Families holds 52 awards, the Administration for Community Living holds 28 awards, and the Administration for Community Living (alternate entry) holds 18 awards. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Education accounts for 38 awards. The tribe's PSC concentration reflects social services delivery: 32 awards fall under Social—Direct Aid to Tribal Governments (PL 93-638), with two additional awards in medical services.

The award portfolio shows uneven activity trajectory. The tribe received 14 awards in 2022, peaked at 21 in 2023, then declined to 9 in 2024, 8 in 2025, and 6 in 2026 through September. Ten awards are scheduled for ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing near-term recompete exposure. Total combined dollars obligated across all 333 awards in the source is $134.2 million, with the earliest tracked award dating to November 1990. The tribe acts exclusively as a prime recipient; no subcontract or subgrant activity appears in the source data. Grant programs span HUD housing, DOJ victim services and juvenile justice initiatives, DOT transit, HHS child welfare and aging services, EPA environmental management, NTIA broadband infrastructure, the Treasury Department's Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund, and the National Park Service Historic Preservation Fund, reflecting broad federal engagement in tribal capacity building, service delivery, and infrastructure.