Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe

The Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe, doing business as Fallon Business Council through its Environmental-General Government, Agriculture, and Social Services Division, operates as a federally recognized Indian tribe based in Fallon, Nevada (565 Rio Vista Drive), and functions as a federal grant recipient delivering health, social services, environmental, transportation, and community development programs to tribal and regional American Indian and Alaska Native populations across northern Nevada and beyond.

The tribe does not hold federal contracts as a prime contractor and does not sit on IDIQs or GWACs. Its federal footprint is entirely grant-based, with the tribe serving as prime recipient on 270 of 274 recent awards (99% prime), and as sub-recipient on four grant sub-awards. Over the past five years, grant activity has ranged from eleven awards in 2022 to nineteen in 2023, then settled into eighteen (2024), ten (2025), and nine (2026). The combined potential value of all 274 awards is $40 thousand, though actual obligations across all awards total $106.8 million, reflecting a heavily obligated portfolio where most announced potential values are nominal.

The tribe's grantor agencies cluster around health and human services. The Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service anchors the portfolio with twenty-five awards; the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Education holds twenty-two; HHS Administration for Community Living delivers nineteen; the Environmental Protection Agency funds eighteen; and HHS Administration for Children and Families rounds out the top five with eighteen. These five agencies account for roughly 37% of recent awards by count. Nineteen awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and will require recompete activity.

Concrete grant work spans substance-abuse treatment, child care subsidies and quality improvement, aging services, behavioral health and suicide prevention, injury prevention (elder falls and child passenger safety), dementia care, community policing equipment and training, public transportation operations and capital acquisition, domestic water infrastructure planning and design, environmental programs (air quality monitoring, recycling, composting, hazmat emergency preparedness), historic preservation, broadband infrastructure, food security and local food purchasing assistance, victims of crime services, disability and vocational rehabilitation, tribal self-governance planning, and climate action planning. Representative awards include a $379.685 thousand Tribal Opioid Response (CFDA 93.788) grant from SAMHSA to provide medication-assisted treatment and recovery support (award date September 30, 2026, performance through September 29, 2031); a $3.79 million Domestic Water Supply Projects grant (CFDA 15.577) from the Bureau of Reclamation for planning and engineering design of domestic water infrastructure (awarded August 29, 2025, completion by July 31, 2027); a $738.793 thousand Violence Against Women Discretionary Grants for Indian Tribal Governments award (CFDA 16.587) from the Department of Justice for domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking victim services (awarded October 1, 2024, thirty-six-month performance period); and a $122.960 thousand Special Programs for the Aging, Title VI, Part A (CFDA 93.047) formula grant from the Administration for Community Living for supportive and nutrition services to tribal seniors (awarded April 1, 2026, three-year performance through March 31, 2029). Sub-recipient work includes dental and mobile clinic capacity expansion through Nevada Health Authority and rural healthcare modernization addressing diagnostic access and aging infrastructure through the same prime recipient.

The tribe operates the Fallon Tribal Health Center, a comprehensive health facility serving Fallon Paiute Shoshone tribal members and members of other federally recognized tribes in the region, including the Lovelock Paiute Tribe and Yomba Shoshone Tribe, as well as other American Indians and Alaska Natives in northern Nevada counties (Churchill, Pershing, Lyon, southern Lander, and northern Nye). Federal grants support both direct clinical services and community-based program infrastructure. Performance occurs in Nevada, primarily in Fallon, with beneficiaries drawn from an estimated 1,876 American Indian and Alaska Native individuals in the primary service counties, though the health center regularly serves a broader northern Nevada tribal population.