Prairie Island Indian Community

Prairie Island Indian Community, a federally recognized tribe headquartered in Welch, Minnesota, operates its Grants & Contracts Division as a prime recipient of federal grants and cooperative agreements across health, environmental, transportation, justice, and community development programs. The tribe competes as a direct recipient under Indian tribal set-asides and programs reserved for federally recognized tribes, holding 82 prime grant and cooperative-agreement awards (77% of its recent footprint) and 25 sub-recipient positions (23%) flowing through state and federal pass-through entities.

The tribe serves approximately 1,200 tribal members on a 1.66-square-mile reservation in Goodhue County, Minnesota, and manages a portfolio of 107 awards with combined obligation of $26.9 million across the past several years. Activity has moderated in recent years—ten awards in 2022 declining to four in 2026—with six awards facing completion within the next twenty-four months. Recent prime grant work spans multiple program areas: a $120,000 project grant from the Federal Highway Administration (CFDA 20.939, Safe Streets and Roads for All) awarded July 27, 2026, to develop a Prairie Island Indian Community Safety Action Plan running through July 2028; a $639,021 project grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (CFDA 16.596, Tribal Justice Assistance Program) to establish an alternative Peacemaker Court for community-based dispute resolution, completing September 2028; a $501,624 project grant from the Department of Justice COPS Office (CFDA 16.710, Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants) for law-enforcement equipment, technology, and mental-health crisis intervention training, completing September 2027; and a Federal Transit Administration $2.76 million project grant for electric-bus procurement and charging infrastructure under the FTA Low or No Emission Grant Program, completing December 2027. The tribe also holds formula grants for older-adult services through the Administration for Community Living (Older Americans Act Title VI Parts A and C, Nutrition Services Incentive Program), environmental programs through EPA Region 5 (Clean Water Act Sections 106 and 319 implementation), and historic-preservation activities through the National Park Service (Historic Preservation Fund, CFDA 15.904).

The top five customer agencies by award count account for 37% of all awards, led by the Environmental Protection Agency (9 awards), the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (9 awards), the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime division (8 awards), the Department of the Interior National Park Service (7 awards), and the Administration for Community Living (7 awards). The tribe receives sub-awards primarily from the Minnesota Department of Human Services as pass-through entity for federal block grants in mental health and substance-abuse prevention; recent sub-awards include mental-health block grants and community mental-health service grants flowing through state administration.

Substantive recent work includes tribal transportation infrastructure and planning (tribal transit maintenance facility and net-zero electric-bus electrification projects under FTA), home energy efficiency and electrification programs (on-reservation audits and retrofits to support net-zero carbon goals under EPA Region 5 and Department of Energy), and tribal environmental water-quality protection (green infrastructure practices at Treasure Island Resort and Casino parking lot to reduce nutrient runoff under EPA and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding). The tribe also manages special diabetes care programs coordinating patient-centered interventions through its tribal health center and operates community policing and alternative dispute-resolution capacity-building initiatives.

The source does not identify any federal contract prime awards or participation in government-wide acquisition vehicles (GWACs, IDIQs, or BPAs). The Grants & Contracts Division operates exclusively as a grant recipient and cooperative-agreement holder under tribal and Native American set-asides, with no contract-bidding footprint in the federal contracting arena.