Fremont County School District 14

Fremont County School District 14, a local government school district based in Lander, Wyoming, receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient and sub-recipient to support K-12 education for a region with a significant Native American population. The district operates exclusively in the federal grant space — it holds no federal contracts and does not compete for procurement — with 37% of its 115 recent awards as prime recipient and 63% routed through sub-awards from state intermediaries, primarily the Wyoming Department of Education.

The district's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of Education. The top five funding agencies account for 97% of awards, led by the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (63 awards), followed by the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (35 awards), the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (9 awards), the Department of Education Office of Career Technical and Adult Education (3 awards), and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 (2 awards). The two agency rankings align closely, with OSEE's education formula grants and sub-awards from the state education agency dominating the footprint.

As a prime recipient, Fremont County School District 14 holds direct awards under two recurring federal grant programs. The Indian Education Formula Grants to Local Educational Agencies (CFDA 84.060) provides annual formula awards to address the cultural, language, and academic needs of American Indian and Alaska Native students; the district received $188,949 for July 2026–June 2027, $195,575 for July 2025–June 2026, $181,587 for July 2024–June 2025, and $217,206 for July 2023–June 2024. The Impact Aid Program, Title VII, Section 7003 (CFDA 84.041), provides longer-term project grants to districts serving federally connected children living on Indian lands; the district holds a $6.998 million award from October 2025 through September 2031 and earlier multi-year awards issued in December 2024, November 2023, January 2023, and December 2021. Combined potential value across all prime and sub-awards is $139.4 million.

In its sub-recipient role, the district receives monthly or periodic sub-awards from the Wyoming Department of Education covering nutrition programs (National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program), special education (IDEA Part B 611 and 619), career and technical education (Perkins V Secondary, CTE Cutting Edge Grant), academic support (ESEA Consolidated Title I, II, IV, and V; Title I School Improvement 1003; Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant), student support (McKinney-Vento Homeless Subgrant, Student Support and Academic Enrichment Program Grant), and pandemic relief (ARP ESSER State Reserve Funds). The district also receives sub-awards from the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality for School Bus Replacement and from the Department of Health Wyoming under the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases program (CFDA 93.323).

Activity has grown sharply — 2 awards in 2022 to 17 in 2026 year-to-date — driven primarily by the cadence of monthly nutrition sub-awards and the larger multi-year Impact Aid project grant issued in October 2025. Only one award is scheduled to reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating stable baseline recompete exposure from ongoing formula grants and a strong pipeline under the longer-duration Impact Aid award.