Evergreen Rural Water Of Washington

Evergreen Rural Water Of Washington, a nonprofit organization based in Shelton, Washington, serves the federal government exclusively as a grant recipient and subgrantee, not as a federal contractor. The vendor received a $2.5 million Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration under the Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending program (CFDA line not specified in source) to expand registered apprenticeship programs training drinking water and wastewater operators across Washington state through May 2026. The grant targets rural communities and utilities serving populations under 10,000, addressing a documented operator-workforce shortage as 30% of current certified drinking water operators were expected to retire by 2023 and 50% by 2028.

Evergreen Rural Water's federal footprint is overwhelmingly weighted toward subgrant work (93% of awards, 13 of 14 tracked awards) under the National Rural Water Association as prime grantee. Eight subgrants funded by the Environmental Protection Agency Office for Water deploy Evergreen as a pass-through recipient for training and technical assistance positions—Water Quality Action Specialists, Wastewater Technicians, Energy Efficiency Technicians, Funding Specialists, and Disaster Recovery Circuit Riders—supporting publicly-owned treatment works, decentralized wastewater systems, municipalities, and tribally-owned water systems across multiple fiscal years from 2023 through 2025. Five subgrants flow from the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service, also routed through the National Rural Water Association prime. Evergreen's single prime grant is the $2.5 million DOL award; the remainder of the portfolio consists of subgrant positions and technical roles funded downstream from National Rural Water Association's administration of federal water and wastewater-sector capacity-building programs.

Combined obligated dollars across all fourteen awards total $4.2 million, concentrated in EPA Office for Water (eight awards) and USDA Rural Utilities Service (five awards) funding channels. Service Contract Inventory data captures minimal activity—two SCI records spanning FY2022 to FY2024, both in named-subcontractor roles, reporting roughly 3.0 to 2.8 FTEs—indicating that Evergreen's federal work is predominantly grant-funded staff and technical positions rather than billable service contracts above the $150,000 SCI threshold. Three distinct federal agencies serve as funding sources: EPA, USDA, and DOL. Activity has grown modestly from four awards in 2023 to six in 2025, with the vendor's operational scope limited to Washington state and rural service areas.