Pueblo Of Jemez

Pueblo Of Jemez, a federally recognized Native American tribe headquartered in Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico (approximately 50 miles northwest of Albuquerque in Sandoval County), operates as a tribal government entity delivering federal grant funding and managing community services across education, health, elder services, child care, environmental management, justice, transportation infrastructure, and economic development. The tribe acts as a prime recipient on 419 of 420 recent awards (100% prime posture) and carries no SBA set-aside designations; as a tribally owned entity, Pueblo Of Jemez qualifies for tribal set-asides and formula grant programs reserved for federally recognized tribes.

The tribe's federal footprint is dominated by formula grant awards flowing through the Department of Health and Human Services. The top customer agencies by award count—Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (158 awards across multiple operational divisions), Administration for Community Living (25 awards), and Administration on Aging—account for 38% of the 420 recent awards. Child care and development services anchor the customer concentration: the tribe holds multiple active block grants under the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CFDA 93.575) for $3.1 million (October 2025–September 2028) and the Child Care and Development Fund Mandatory & Matching (CFDA 93.596) for $237,901.89 (same period), plus recurring annual discretionary and mandatory-matching child care awards. Elder services flow through recurring formula grants under the Older Americans Act Title VI, Part A (Supporting Services for Native Americans), Title VI Part C (Native American Caregivers Support), and the Nutrition Services Incentive Program, with a representative award of $157,530 under CFDA 93.047 (April 2026–March 2029). The tribe also manages education formula grants from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (Indian Education Formula Grants to LEAs) and operates the Jemez Day School with utility services contracted through the Bureau of Indian Education.

Infrastructure and transportation work flows through the Federal Highway Administration's Tribal Transportation Program (CFDA 20.289), which provided $1.4 million (May 2022), $1.01 million (November 2022), $348,231.81 (December 2025), and $1.38 million (December 2025) in successive formula awards for road construction, maintenance, and tribal access improvements. Environmental programs span EPA Region 6 water quality monitoring and capacity-building grants (CFDA 66.926, $270,000 for October 2025–September 2027) and formula grants for water quality assessment and protection. Justice and public safety work includes a $900,000 Tribal Justice Assistance Program grant (CFDA 16.596, October 2024–September 2029) for tribal court capacity-building—probation and victim services—and a separate $900,000 award (October 2023–September 2028) for court administration and reentry services. Victims of crime services receive funding through the Tribal Victims Services Set-Aside (Project Grants for FY 2023 and FY 2024). Economic development initiatives include a $536,200 Economic Development Administration feasibility study grant (April 2022) for tribal energy independence and clean energy transition planning, and a HUD Community Project Funding award (August 2024–August 2032) for unspecified economic development activities. The tribe received a $900,000 Bureau of Justice Assistance award for tribal court capacity-building, a $270,000 EPA General Assistance Program grant for environmental office capacity development, and a $2.65 million HUD Community Development Grant for irrigation infrastructure repair following the 2022 Cerro Pelado fire.

Prime federal contract awards to Pueblo Of Jemez are minimal and transactional: a $54,000 Department of Interior purchase order (June 2026) for land rental services at McCauley Springs near Santa Fe, New Mexico; a $234,000 Forest Service contract (April 2022) for land and facility use at Cerro Pelado; and two Bureau of Indian Education water and wastewater services purchase orders (one for $15,000 effective through February 2029, one for $500 effective December 2024) for the Jemez Day School. The tribe carries one federal grant sub-award as a sub-recipient on a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation award for riparian vegetation restoration and stream stabilization along the Jemez River and Vallecito Creek.

Activity has declined modestly in recent years—25 awards in 2022, dropping to 7 awarded year-to-date in 2026—with 21 awards reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore subject to recompete or reobtaining. The combined obligated value across all 420 awards reaches $266.1 million, though reported potential value remains under $400 thousand, a data-quality signal reflecting heavy weighting toward formula awards with annual reobligations rather than multiyear fixed-price ceiling values. The tribe's federal engagement centers on mandatory tribal formula grants and community-based service delivery rather than competitive procurement or IDIQs.