Pueblo De San Ildefonso

Pueblo De San Ildefonso, a federally recognized Native American tribal government headquartered in San Ildefonso, New Mexico, acts as a prime recipient of federal grants across environmental management, infrastructure, healthcare, cultural preservation, and tribal economic development—with no federal contracting activity and no subcontract roles in the source data. The Pueblo operates through a subsidiary, San Ildefonso Services LLC, a tribally owned firm and Indian Economic Enterprise certified as a minority-owned and small disadvantaged business.

The Pueblo's federal grant footprint spans 24 customer agencies, with the strongest concentration in environmental and transportation funding. The Environmental Protection Agency (16 awards) and the Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration (16 awards) together account for 54% of recent award count, followed by the Department of the Interior National Park Service (9 awards), the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (8 awards), and EPA Region 6 (7 awards). The Pueblo has received over $35.2 million in combined obligated dollars across 104 total awards since 1997, though recent annual volume (2022–2026) averages five to nine awards per year with 2023 as the peak year at nine awards.

Recent representative grant work reflects the Pueblo's portfolio breadth. The Pueblo received a $200,470 project grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs (CFDA 15.038) in September 2025 to fund technical feasibility studies and pre-development assessments for a utility-scale geothermal energy generation project on 39,000 acres of trust land adjacent to Los Alamos National Laboratory, targeting completion in September 2027 and designed to support LANL's transition to 100 percent carbon-pollution-free electricity by 2030. The Pueblo is recipient of multiple formula grants from the Administration on Aging (awarded April 2026, completion March 2029) supporting Native American caregiver support, older Americans services, and nutrition programs under the Older Americans Act. The Bureau of Reclamation awarded consecutive project grants for water infrastructure—a $238,442 grant in April 2025 (CFDA 15.519) to retrofit an existing water intake system delivering irrigation from the Rio Grande to the Pueblo's Westside farmlands, and an earlier $256,312 award in April 2023 for rehabilitation of an artesian well to enhance drought resiliency. EPA Region 6 funds water quality monitoring and ambient air quality assessment; the Inflation Reduction Act air quality grant (awarded April 2023, completion March 2028) funds installation of ambient air samplers and a PurpleAir sensor network to monitor radionuclide levels from LANL operations. The Federal Transit Administration has funded multiple formula and project grants for local transit operations covering driver time, fuel, maintenance, and ADA-compliant bus stop improvements. The National Park Service awarded a cooperative agreement in September 2025 (CFDA 15.944) for trail maintenance, rehabilitation, and interpretation work at the Tsankawi Unit of Bandelier National Monument.

Twelve awards (combined potential value not separately quantified) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating a recompete pipeline concentrated in transit operations, environmental monitoring, and water resource management. The Pueblo's grant strategy centers on tribal capacity-building, environmental stewardship addressing proximity to Los Alamos National Laboratory contamination exposure, water security and drought resilience, and cultural and historic preservation—all anchored to direct service delivery and tribal self-determination rather than contracting relationships with federal agencies.