Jicarilla Apache Nation

Jicarilla Apache Nation, a federally recognized tribal government headquartered in Dulce, New Mexico, operates as a prime recipient of federal grants across health, social services, infrastructure, natural resources, and workforce development programs. The Nation does not hold federal contracts or sit on contract vehicles; its entire award footprint consists of grant receipts across 44 distinct federal agencies, with no subcontract activity.

The Nation's grant portfolio spans social safety-net, infrastructure, and conservation work. The Department of Health and Human Services dominates customer concentration, with the Public Health Service (37 awards), Administration for Children and Families (37 total awards across three sub-office segments), and Administration for Community Living (19 awards) accounting for a substantial share of the award count. Representative grant work includes a $157,530 formula grant from the Administration on Aging under the Special Programs for the Aging Title VI Part A program (CFDA 93.047) awarded April 1, 2026, to deliver nutrition services, supportive services, and caregiver support to tribal elders aged 60 and older through March 31, 2029; a $3.162 million project grant from the Department of the Interior's Interior Business Center under the Energy Community Revitalization Program (CFDA 15.018) established by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to plug, remediate, or reclaim up to 23 orphaned oil and gas wells on tribal lands and restore soil and habitat through March 31, 2029; a $1.1 million project grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) awarded June 2, 2025, to remove barriers and restore fish passage on Amargo Creek in the San Juan River watershed through June 3, 2030; a $350,000 National Fish Passage Program grant from Fish and Wildlife Service to remove barriers on Willow Creek in the Rio Chama watershed through June 3, 2029; and a $180,038 project grant from the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration under the Native American Employment and Training program (CFDA 17.265) for employment and training services to unemployed and underemployed tribal members through June 30, 2025. The Nation also holds multiple recurring formula grants for low-income home energy assistance (LIHEAP and related infrastructure supplements), child welfare and family support services, transportation (Tribal Transit Program via the Federal Transit Administration), historic preservation (THPO grants via the National Park Service), workforce development under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, and infrastructure resilience under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Recent activity has declined: the Nation received 10 awards in 2022, peaked at 16 in 2023, then dropped to 14 in 2024, 9 in 2025, and 3 in the first quarter of 2026. Fifteen awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. The combined potential value across all 267 awards in the source data is $2.4 million, though obligated dollars ($87.3 million) substantially exceed that figure, reflecting awards with multiyear obligations extending beyond stated ceiling values. Service Contract Inventory data is minimal and nonrepresentative: only two SCI-reportable contracts appear in the dataset (FY2022–FY2023), recording $162 thousand in invoiced revenue and averaging 0.75 FTEs, with median government-paid rates around $41.77 per hour. This SCI activity does not characterize the Nation's federal footprint, which is almost entirely grant-based.

The Nation's grant programs reflect its role as a tribal government delivering community services across aging and nutrition support, child welfare, family stabilization, workforce development, transit operations and capital projects, broadband and energy infrastructure, natural resource management and fish passage restoration, historic preservation, law enforcement capacity building, and public health. A $10,000 firm fixed-price purchase order from the USDA Forest Service Southwestern Region (Region 3), awarded August 8, 2023, to provide land and facility use in Taos, New Mexico for ten days represents the sole contract award in the source data. The Nation does business as Jicarilla Shopping Center for certain grant programs and does not engage subcontractors on its prime awards.