Forest County Potawatomi Community

Forest County Potawatomi Community, doing business as Forest County Potawatomi Tribe, is a federally recognized Native American tribe headquartered in Crandon, Wisconsin, that operates as a tribal government entity and recipient of federal grants across health, social services, transportation, environmental, cultural, and community development programs. The tribe acts exclusively as a prime recipient on federal grants (79% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient on pass-through federal funding from state agencies, with no federal contract or IDIQ presence in the source data. The tribe is tribally owned and qualifies as a minority-owned business; it operates two named subsidiaries—Potawatomi TPS JV, LLC and Potawatomi Business Development Corp—both tribally owned and minority-owned entities.

Forest County Potawatomi Community's federal grant footprint spans domestic social services, tribal transportation infrastructure, environmental remediation and climate resilience, public health, substance abuse treatment and prevention, child care and family services, and cultural preservation. Recent prime grant recipients include the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (26 awards across child care development block grants, child support enforcement, and temporary assistance for needy families); the Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service (25 awards); the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (21 awards funding tribal opioid response, family treatment court, and community wellness court operations); the Federal Highway Administration (multiple formula grants for tribal transportation, bridge replacement, and transit operations, with individual awards of $238,084 to $11.99 million); the Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 (cooperative agreements for air quality monitoring, water quality protection, solid waste management, and climate action planning); and the Administration on Aging (nutrition services, caregiver support, and elder employment grants). Representative awards include a $1.2 million Office on Violence Against Women grant (CFDA 16.587) for victim advocacy and emergency shelter services over 36 months (award date October 1, 2024), a $900,000 Bureau of Justice Assistance tribal justice grant (CFDA 16.596) for family treatment court (October 1, 2023, through September 30, 2028), a $9.53 million RAISE transportation infrastructure grant from the Federal Highway Administration (August 19, 2024), and multiple formula grants from the Administration for Children and Families for child care development ($511,958 discretionary plus mandatory and matching funds) and child support enforcement ($863,374 block grant, awarded October 1, 2025). Environmental and climate work includes a $115,000 EPA project grant for air monitoring equipment upgrade under the Inflation Reduction Act (CFDA 66.034, June 1, 2024) and cooperative agreements with EPA Region 5 for climate action planning, water quality protection, and hazardous waste program development. Grant sub-awards flow primarily through the State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the State of Wisconsin Department of Children and Families across health, mental health treatment, substance abuse services, family services, and child welfare programs.

Activity has accelerated substantially year over year—from 18 awards in 2022 to 39 in 2023, 85 in 2024, and 31 in 2025—with 10 awards recorded in 2026 through August. Eighteen awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and are therefore subject to recompete. The tribe's customer concentration is entirely within federal domestic agencies; top funding agencies by award count include the Administration for Children and Families (across multiple sub-bureaus), the Public Health Service, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, with secondary concentration in transportation, environmental, and justice programs. The tribe receives pass-through sub-awards from Wisconsin state agencies, primarily the Department of Health Services and Department of Children and Families, reflecting Wisconsin's role as the parent state for many federal block grant and formula programs serving the tribe.