The Hoopa Valley Tribe

The Hoopa Valley Tribe, a federally recognized Native American tribe headquartered in Hoopa, California, operates as a tribal government recipient of federal grants across environmental management, natural resource conservation, public safety, social services, and community development. The tribe competes exclusively in full-and-open procurements and does not hold SBA certifications; it does not pursue federal contracts as a prime contractor except in narrow set-asides reserved for federally recognized tribes (such as Tribal Employment Rights Office contracting with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission). The tribe's federal footprint is almost entirely grant-funded (98% prime awards are grants rather than contracts), with 452 total awards across 67 federal agencies spanning the past three decades.

The Hoopa Valley Tribe's capability portfolio centers on delivery of federal grant programs at the tribal level—forest management and wildfire risk reduction, water resources development and monitoring, environmental protection and brownfields remediation, food distribution and nutrition assistance, behavioral health and substance abuse treatment, child care and family services, law enforcement and victim services, language preservation, and infrastructure development. Recent representative work includes a $10.6 million 20-year Cooperative Agreement with the Bureau of Land Management (CFDA 15.233) for forest management and wildfire risk reduction on BLM lands beginning February 2026; a $1.075 million four-year project grant from the Bureau of Reclamation (CFDA 15.519) for juvenile salmonid acoustic tagging and migration monitoring in the Klamath River Basin through December 2027; a $1 million project grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (CFDA 16.585) for Healing to Wellness Court expansion through September 2030; and a $250,000 project grant under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act Nursery Vegetation program (CFDA 10.736) for tree seedling production capacity expansion through September 2030.

Customer concentration is broad and dispersed across 67 agencies, reflecting the tribe's role as a direct federal grant recipient. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families leads by award count (47 awards) but carries no specified dollar total in the source; the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 5 anchors potential value at $580 thousand across 13 awards, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission places 28 awards worth $341 thousand combined (mostly small $30,000–$35,000 annual Tribal Employment Rights Office contracts). A second tier includes the Food and Nutrition Service (26 awards), the Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 (environmental and brownfields work), the Department of Justice (victim services, treatment courts, public safety), the Department of Interior Bureau of Reclamation and Fish and Wildlife Service (water resources and habitat restoration), and the Department of Education (child care and vocational rehabilitation). Within the next twenty-four months, 37 awards reach ultimate completion and face recompete risk.

The tribe's grant work spans multiple federal agencies and programs with no parent IDIQs or GWACs—the awards are direct grant allocations, formula grants, project grants, and cooperative agreements. One indefinite delivery contract (539A4701R02) with five task orders appears in the source, likely a small purchase or land-use vehicle. The tribe serves as prime recipient on the vast majority of work; sub-award activity is minimal (2% of all awards), concentrated in state pass-throughs (California Department of Social Services for child care, Department of Education for child care) and emergency management victim services sub-awards from the Office of Emergency Services.

Federal grant programs anchoring the footprint include TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, CFDA 93.558), LIHEAP (Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, CFDA 93.568), CCDF (Child Care and Development Fund, CFDA 93.575), FDPIR (Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations, CFDA 10.567), SNAP Nutrition Education, CWSS (Child Welfare Social Services), Promoting Safe and Stable Families (CFDA 93.556), and formula-based allocations from EPA (environmental programs and brownfields), BIA (economic development, tribal energy, historic preservation), and DOJ (COPS hiring and equipment grants, treatment courts, victim services). The tribe also holds cooperative agreements for habitat restoration, wildfire management, and environmental programs running multi-year cycles.

The tribe operates three named subsidiaries: K'ima:w Medical Center (tribal government entity providing behavioral health, substance abuse treatment, and medical services); Hoopa Forest Industries (tribal government forestry entity); and Denoto Holding Corporation (tribally owned economic enterprise registered as a small disadvantaged business). K'ima:w Medical Center appears as the implementing entity on several substance abuse treatment and public health grants, while Hoopa Forest Industries likely anchors the forestry and wildfire management work.

Activity has been steady at 20–30 awards per year through 2024, with a recent decline to four awards in the first half of 2026—a snapshot artifact rather than a signal of decline, given the award observation date of July 15, 2026. The tribe's obligated dollars ($477.6 million across all awards) far exceed combined potential value ($1 million stated, a likely data artifact or reporting floor), reflecting decades of grant operations and annual formula allocations that reinvest throughout multi-year award cycles. The tribe does not compete for federal contracts on the open market and does not appear on GSA Schedules, GWACs, or other government-wide vehicles; its transactional relationship with the federal government is exclusively grant-recipient at the tribal government level.