Menominee Indian Tribe Of Wisconsin

Menominee Indian Tribe Of Wisconsin, a federally recognized tribal government based in Keshena, Wisconsin, acts as a federal grant recipient delivering tribal governance, social services, public health, workforce development, and infrastructure programs to its approximately 8,500 enrolled members and the surrounding Menominee County community. The tribe operates predominantly as a prime grant recipient (79% of recent awards) rather than a federal contractor; it holds no federal contract prime positions and no seats on federal contracting vehicles. The tribe's federal footprint is overwhelmingly grant-funded, spanning 554 prime grant awards across 78 distinct federal agencies.

The tribe's portfolio concentrates heavily on human services, child welfare, nutrition assistance, aging services, and public safety programs routed through the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families and the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service. Top customer agencies by award count include HHS Administration for Children and Families (131 awards combined across two subfamilies), USDA Food and Nutrition Service (78 awards combined), and the Federal Transit Administration (25 awards). Across the recent grant footprint, the tribe receives formula grants for child care subsidies (Child Care and Development Block Grant, CCDBG; Child Care and Development Fund, CCDF), temporary family assistance (TANF), child support enforcement, nutrition programs (FDPIR, SNAP nutrition education), and Older Americans Act services (Title VI nutrition and caregiver support for Native Americans). The tribe also manages project grants for victim services, criminal justice capacity, emergency management, mental health and substance abuse prevention, broadband infrastructure, environmental protection and brownfields remediation, transit operations, and Head Start early childhood education.

Representative prime grant work includes a $2.355 million five-year Head Start award from HHS Office of Head Start (CFDA 93.600, August 2025 through July 2030) to deliver comprehensive early childhood education and family support services; a $1.82 million block grant from HHS Office of Child Support Enforcement (CFDA 93.563, FY 2026) for child support services; a $1.623 million block grant from HHS Office of Child Care (CFDA 93.575, FY 2026–2028) for child care subsidies to low-income families; a $1.111 million formula grant from the Federal Transit Administration (CFDA 20.509, February 2026–February 2027) for transit operations serving the Menominee Indian Reservation and Menominee County; a $999,999 project grant from DOJ Bureau of Justice Assistance (CFDA 16.838) for medication-assisted treatment and substance use disorder services at the tribal detention facility; and a $966,753 project grant from FEMA for hazard mitigation and community resilience under the BRIC program (CFDA 97.047).

The tribe's activity trajectory shows growth in award volume: 26 awards in 2022, 54 in 2023, 89 in 2024, 61 in 2025, and 17 in the first months of 2026 (representing partial-year data). The combined potential value across all 698 awards (prime and sub) is reported as $45 thousand, though obligated dollars total $374.1 million, indicating that the vast majority of the tribe's federal dollars flow through formula grants and block grants where the "ceiling" figures in source systems do not reflect actual disbursement magnitude. Thirty awards face completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure for the tribe's human services and infrastructure programs.

The tribe acts as a sub-recipient on 144 awards (21% of the portfolio), primarily through Wisconsin state pass-through mechanisms. Named prime grantees include the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (child nutrition programs: NSLP, CACFP), the State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services (Medicaid, family services, substance abuse prevention, HIV prevention, WIC), the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (state-tribe family services and child welfare contracts), and the Department of Justice Wisconsin (victim services). The tribe also receives subawards from the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council on chronic disease prevention, from the University of Wisconsin System for indigenous agricultural research, and from the Trust for Public Land on environmental education.

The tribe's only federal contract awards in the source are two small General Services Administration purchase orders for auto body repairs (completed in 2023 and 2024, totaling approximately $26 thousand) and carry no set-aside designation. The tribe does not compete for federal contracts under IDIQs, GWACs, or agency-wide vehicles; its entire federal footprint is grant-funded, with work performed on the Menominee Indian Reservation in Keshena, Wisconsin and throughout Menominee County.