North Sargent School District 3

North Sargent School District 3, a local government school district based in Gwinner, North Dakota, receives federal formula grants and sub-award funding as a recipient from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service, operating exclusively in the grant space with no federal contracting presence.

The district holds prime recipient status for five consecutive annual awards under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program (SRSAP), a formula grant vehicle from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, with awards dated July 1 in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026, each running through the following September 30. The vast majority of the district's federal footprint — 92 of 112 recent awards (82%) — consists of sub-awards flowing through the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction as the pass-through entity. The sub-award portfolio splits across two dominant federal programs: child nutrition funding (National School Lunch Program Paid, NSLP Free/Reduced, and School Breakfast Program reimbursements) representing the bulk of monthly or quarterly distributions from USDA Food and Nutrition Service, and Title I, Title V, school safety grants, and COVID relief (ESSER II) funding flowing from ED's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. Representative sub-awards include recurring monthly NSLP Paid and SBP reimbursements issued by NDPI on behalf of USDA (appearing in the portfolio from 2023 through 2026), Title I sub-awards for 2024–2025 and 2025–2026 school years, Supplemental School Safety Grants (84.424F) awarded in 2023 and 2025, and ND CLIMBS (North Dakota Comprehensive, Literacy, Integrated, Multi-tiered Support) sub-awards for elementary and secondary programs in 2025–2026. Two sub-awards reference homeland security and community preparedness objectives — one from October 2023 addressing "Physical Protective Measures, Community Preparedness, Combating Domestic Violent Extremism" and another from October 2024 addressing "Enhance ability of local government to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from terrorist attacks" — suggesting the district receives targeted federal support for school safety and security infrastructure.

Customer concentration is binary. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service accounts for 73 awards and the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education for 36 awards, representing 97% of the district's recent award volume; combined obligated dollars across all awards total $1.3 million. Activity has grown modestly year over year — 3 awards in 2022 to 28 in 2025, with 22 awards in 2026 — driven by the monthly cadence of child nutrition sub-awards. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete pressure in the near term.