Mount Baker School District 507

Mount Baker School District 507, a U.S. local government school district headquartered in Deming, Washington, receives direct federal grant funding as a prime recipient and acts as a sub-recipient on pass-through grants from the Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction. The district does not hold federal contracts; its federal footprint consists entirely of education and child nutrition grants administered by the Department of Education and the Department of Agriculture.

The district's funding concentration is heavily skewed toward the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, which accounts for 47 of 77 total awards in the source portfolio. The Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service accounts for 24 awards, and the Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services rounds out the active customer set with 6 awards. The three agencies combined represent 100% of recent federal grant activity. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $9.5 million over the award history captured in the source.

As a prime recipient, Mount Baker School District 507 receives formula and project grants directly from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. Representative prime awards include the Indian Education Formula Grants to LEAs (annual grants with cycles running July 1 through June 30, most recently awarded July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027), the Impact Aid Program Title VII Section 7003 (CFDA 84.041), which provided $167,764 as a Project Grant on October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2031 to support educational services for students living on or whose parents work on federal property or are on active duty in the uniformed services, and a CN Farm to School Grant from the Department of Agriculture Child Nutrition Division (Project Grant awarded July 26, 2023, through June 30, 2024).

In its sub-recipient role, Mount Baker School District 507 receives pass-through funding from the Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction under multiple federal education programs. Sub-recipient awards span Title I Part A, Special Education IDEA Part B, Title II Supporting Effective Instruction, McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth, Student Support and Academic Enrichment, and child nutrition program reimbursement and administrative support. The district received at least 38 sub-recipient awards dating from 2023 through September 2026.

Activity has fluctuated year to year — one award in 2022, sixteen in 2023, eighteen in 2024, ten in 2025, and three as of September 2026 — suggesting seasonal or administrative grant cycles rather than sustained linear growth. The recompete cliff is minimal; only one award has an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months, indicating the district's current grant portfolio carries long-duration awards running through 2028–2031.