Powell County

Powell County, a Montana state government entity headquartered in Elliston, Montana, is a recipient of federal education grants from the U.S. Department of Education, with 90% of its recent federal awards as a prime recipient and 10% as a sub-recipient under pass-through grants from the Montana Office of Public Instruction.

Powell County operates exclusively within a single federal customer: the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, which accounts for all 20 awards in the recent funding portfolio. The vendor receives recurring annual formula grants under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program, with awards issued on July 1 each year (2022, 2023, 2025, 2026) and ultimate completion dates of September 30 each year. The combined dollar obligation across all federal awards in the source data is $471 thousand, reflecting the modest scale typical of rural school district formula funding. As a sub-recipient, Powell County has also drawn pass-through awards from the Montana Office of Public Instruction under the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP ESSER) program (CFDA 84.425U, awarded July 1, 2024) and the prior ESSER II initiative (CFDA 84.425, awarded September 30, 2023).

Activity has remained flat over the past five years, with one award per year from 2022 through 2026, and only one award completing within the next twenty-four months. The Small, Rural School Achievement Program structure delivers recurring formula-based funding rather than competitive procurement; Powell County's eligibility stems from its status as a small, rural school district in Montana, not from competitive procurement or contract vehicle positioning. The vendor has no presence on federal contract vehicles, no prime contract awards, and no involvement with federal contractors as a subcontractor to defense or civilian prime integrators — the footprint is exclusively education-sector, formula-grant funded.