Pueblo De San Felipe

Pueblo De San Felipe, a federally recognized Indian tribe based in San Felipe Pueblo, New Mexico, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering health, nutrition, infrastructure, and human services to tribal members and communities. The tribe does not hold federal prime contracts but functions exclusively as a recipient of formula grants, project grants, block grants, and cooperative agreements from HHS, USDA, DOT, EPA, and other agencies — a posture typical of tribal governments operating under federal programs reserved for Indian tribes and Native American organizations.

The tribe's federal footprint spans 456 awards across 46 customer agencies, with obligated dollars of $291.6 million, reflecting a mature grant portfolio anchored in recurring formula-grant programs. Recent awards include a $2 million SAMHSA project grant (CFDA 93.104) for the San Felipe Systems of Care, expanding behavioral health services for children and youth ages 0-21 with serious emotional disturbance over four years; multiple USDA WIC and nutrition awards totaling $817,207 in food expense funding and $649,070 in administrative costs under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (CFDA 10.557); and five Federal Highway Administration Tribal Transportation Program grants awarded in November 2025 (CFDA 20.289) collectively totaling $3.8 million for road construction, bridge improvements, and highway maintenance on tribal lands. Additional representative work includes a $4.426 million HHS Office of Child Care block grant (CFDA 93.575) for child care subsidies and quality improvement, a $350,357 EPA Performance Partnership Grant (CFDA 66.605) for water quality monitoring and solid waste management, and a $411,638 Bureau of Reclamation project grant (CFDA 15.580) for a three-year bosque and riverine restoration planning initiative with deliverables including environmental compliance, restoration strategy, and implementation timelines.

The tribe's customer concentration is diffuse across social services, nutrition, and infrastructure agencies. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service leads by award count with 87 awards, followed by HHS Public Health Service (37 awards) and HHS Administration for Children and Families (36 awards), with the balance split among DOT, EPA, DOI, Interior, and thirteen other agencies. Awards cluster in formula-grant and project-grant categories — Social (Other and Rehabilitation PSC codes account for 26 of the tribe's awards) — reflecting the tribe's role as administrator of federal social, nutrition, health, and infrastructure programs. Activity has remained stable at 21–28 awards annually over the past five years, with 18 awards reaching completion within the next twenty-four months. The tribe serves as prime recipient on all active awards and carries a single sub-award as a sub-recipient under a New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management flood mitigation project (obligated February 2025). The tribe operates with no federal contract vehicles, no prime contract awards, and no private-sector teaming relationships in the source record — its federal engagement is exclusively grant-based, aligned with the statutory framework governing tribal governments' access to federal assistance.