Pokagon Band Of Potawatomi

Pokagon Band Of Potawatomi, operating as Pokagon Band Finance, is a federally recognized Native American tribe based in Dowagiac, Michigan that receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient across social services, environmental protection, public health, and community development programs. The tribe does not hold federal contracts or seats on contract vehicles; its federal footprint consists entirely of grant awards and sub-grant participation, with 286 of 290 total awards held as prime recipient (99%) and the remainder as sub-recipient on health research and immunization programs.

The tribe's grant portfolio centers on tribal social services, child welfare, aging services, nutrition assistance, energy assistance, and environmental restoration. Representative prime grants include a $4,999,793 cooperative agreement from EPA Region 5 under the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program (CFDA 66.046) running through December 2029 to implement greenhouse gas reduction projects including 15 MWh of rooftop and ground-mounted solar and retrofitting nine tribal buildings with heat pumps; a $975,928 project grant from the Office on Violence Against Women (CFDA 16.587) through September 2027 for the Domestic Violence Program to provide case management, emergency housing, and behavioral health services for survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking; and recurring formula grants from the Administration for Children and Families for child care and development block grants (CCDBG, CFDA 93.575), child welfare social services (CWSS), and promoting safe and stable families (FPSS) programs. The tribe also administers formula grants for Low-Income Home Energy Assistance (LIHEAP, CFDA 93.568) delivering $334,804 through September 2027, Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR, CFDA 10.567) providing food assistance to eligible households, and Older Americans Act Title VI grants (CFDA 93.047) supporting nutrition and caregiver services for tribal elders aged 60 and older.

Environmental and natural-resource grants form a secondary focus. The tribe holds a $2.3 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative project grant (CFDA 11.463) from NOAA to restore the Dowagiac River with work completing by September 2026; ongoing EPA Region 5 cooperative agreements for tribal environmental program operations and water quality monitoring; and project grants from the Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 for bat monitoring capacity expansion, migratory bird monitoring via MOTUS stations, and mussel population surveys in the Dowagiac River watershed. The tribe received a $254,413 Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside grant (CFDA 16.841) from the Office for Victims of Crime and a $675,543 COPS Office tribal resources grant (CFDA 16.710) for law enforcement equipment and community policing training.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of Health and Human Services and its sub-agencies. The top five funding agencies account for 34% of the award count, dominated by recurring formula grants from the Administration for Children and Families (26, 23, and 17 awards across child care, welfare, and family support programs), the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (19 Indian Education Formula Grants), and the Administration for Community Living (15 aging-services grants). Activity volume has remained steady at 11–23 awards annually over the past five years, though 2026 shows only four awards to date. Twenty-five awards carrying recompete exposure complete within the next twenty-four months, concentrated in annual formula grants for child care, LIHEAP, FDPIR nutrition assistance, and aging services programs that renew on fiscal-year cycles. The tribe also serves as sub-recipient on a Johns Hopkins University home-visiting research grant awarded in May 2026 and on COVID-19 immunization tribal support sub-awards from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services in 2022 and 2023. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $123.2 million, reflecting the tribe's role as administrator of federal entitlements and discretionary grants serving tribal members in southwestern Michigan and northern Indiana.