Iowa Tribe Of Kansas And Nebraska

Iowa Tribe Of Kansas And Nebraska, a federally recognized tribal government headquartered in White Cloud, Kansas, receives federal grants as a prime recipient across health and human services, environmental management, infrastructure, and community development programs — with no federal contract prime awards in the source data. The tribe is self-certified as a small disadvantaged business and tribally owned entity, operating within a corporate structure that includes two named subsidiaries: Grey Snow Management Solutions LLC (a tribally owned firm and minority-owned business entity) and Nuweh, LLC (a tribal government entity).

The tribe's federal funding footprint is grant-dominated (99% of awards as prime recipient, 1% as sub-recipient on a University of Nebraska Cooperative Forestry Program). Over the past five years, annual grant activity peaked at 17 awards in 2023, declining to 6 in 2025 and 4 in 2026 year-to-date. Customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of Health and Human Services: the Administration for Community Living (20 awards), the Administration for Children and Families (36 combined awards across multiple award cycles), and the Indian Health Service. Additional federal grantors include the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA Region 7), the Department of the Interior (National Park Service and Bureau of Indian Affairs), the Department of Justice (Office on Violence Against Women), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (Agricultural Marketing Service and Rural Business Cooperative Services), and the Department of Energy.

Representative recent grants reflect capability breadth across tribal social services, infrastructure, and climate resilience. The tribe holds recurring formula grants under the Older Americans Act (OATA, OATC, OANT programs) and the Administration on Aging; Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) and Child Care and Development Block Grant awards from the Office of Child Care; and Family Violence Prevention and Services (FVPS) and Child Welfare Social Services (CWSS) grants from the Administration for Children and Families. Environmental and infrastructure work includes a $498,601 cooperative agreement from EPA Region 7 for Climate Pollution Reduction Grants planning (with a subcontract to Grey Snow Management Solutions for Priority Climate Action Plan and Comprehensive Climate Action Plan deliverables), a $134,990 EPA General Assistance Program grant for environmental protection program development and water program planning, a $1,302,395 USDA Agricultural Marketing Service cooperative agreement for local food purchase and distribution targeting socially disadvantaged farmers, and a $762,672 Administration for Native Americans project grant for community development under the Native American Programs framework (CFDA 93.612). Violence prevention work includes a $523,065 Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women discretionary grant supporting the tribe's Cina Akidawe Peace Program, which provides safety planning, advocacy, transitional housing, and cultural healing for victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking, in partnership with the Midwest Native Coalition for Justice and Peace. Recent climate and energy grants include a Department of Energy Bipartisan Infrastructure Law formula grant for electric grid resilience and a Inflation Reduction Act cooperative agreement from EPA Region 7 for microgrid construction, electric vehicle charger installation, and residential HVAC electrification across 52 tribal households. Broadband and technology grants include a National Telecommunications and Information Administration project grant for fiber backbone replacement, public Wi-Fi expansion, and a technology learning center, and a Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs economic development grant for broadband planning. The tribe also holds recurring historic preservation grants from the National Park Service under the Tribal Historic Preservation Office program and serves as a prime recipient on smaller grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (COVID-19 recovery support) and the Economic Development Administration (regional economic development strategy planning).

Thirteen awards face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing recompete opportunity for the tribe and for competitors seeking to place work in tribal health services, child care and elder services, violence prevention, and environmental management programs. The source indicates the tribe does not operate federal contracts or GSA Schedules; its engagement with the federal government is exclusively grant-based, with tribal government as the primary recipient and direct implementation authority. Grey Snow Management Solutions appears as a named sub-recipient on the EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grants cooperative agreement for planning deliverables.