Ewiiaapaayp Band Of Kumeyaay Indians

Ewiiaapaayp Band of Kumeyaay Indians, doing business as Leaning Rock Water, is a federally recognized Indian tribe based in Alpine, California, that receives federal grants as a prime recipient to fund tribal infrastructure, energy development capacity, broadband deployment, and self-governance program administration. The tribe does not hold federal contracts and operates exclusively as a grant recipient under tribal government and housing authority structures. All 39 awards in the source are federal grants; the tribe does not compete for or hold contract vehicles, BPAs, or IDIQs.

The tribe's grant footprint spans ten distinct federal agencies with concentrated activity in two areas. The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Self Governance accounts for eight awards funding tribal self-governance compacts and block grants under CFDA 15.022 (Tribal Self-Governance), with ultimate completion dates ranging from 2023 to 2025. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Public and Indian Housing Office also holds eight awards. The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Education division holds seven awards, while the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (six awards) and the Department of Energy (three awards) round out the top five. These five agencies account for 82% of all awards.

Recent and active award work centers on infrastructure resilience and energy self-sufficiency. In August 2025, the Federal Highway Administration awarded $120,000 through the Highway Planning and Construction program (CFDA 20.205) under the PROTECT initiative to remediate the Thing Valley Community Access and Evacuation Route, a 3.79-mile reservation access road subject to seasonal closures and unsafe for emergency vehicle and wildfire evacuation operations; completion is scheduled for September 2029. In July 2024, the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs awarded a $185,000 Tribal Energy Development Capacity Grant (TEDC) to strengthen the tribe's managerial and technical capacity to manage wind, solar, and geothermal resources and to establish organizational structures for commercial energy development, utility formation, grid electrification, and emergency response planning; completion date is July 2026. The tribe also holds active awards for broadband planning, engineering, and feasibility studies funded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (ultimate completion April 2027), energy efficiency conservation block grants from the Department of Energy (completion January 2026), and electric grid resilience formula grants from the Department of Energy under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (completion April 2032). Awards obligated total $9.1 million across all sources. Only two awards face completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating low recompete pressure in the immediate term.