Ramah Navajo School Board Inc.

Ramah Navajo School Board Inc., a tribally owned, federally recognized American Indian nonprofit organization based in New Mexico, is a federal grant recipient focused on education, employment training, and community health services for Native American populations. The organization operates exclusively as a prime recipient across federal grant programs and does not compete for federal contracts; it holds no contracting vehicles and no federal contract awards in the source data.

Ramah Navajo School Board Inc. is a minority-owned, Native American-owned, and community development corporation owned firm serving American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian populations. The organization's federal footprint centers on four core capability areas: K–12 Indian education formula grants; employment and training services under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA); child welfare and family preservation services; and health and wellness programming. Representative prime grant work includes a $119,415 project grant from the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration under the Native American Employment and Training Program (CFDA 17.265) awarded July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028, delivering career services, occupational training aligned with WIOA, and follow-up support for unemployed and underemployed American Indian and Alaska Native individuals; recurring Indian Education Formula Grants to Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, with the most recent award effective July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027; Child Welfare Social Services (CWSS) and Promoting Safe and Stable Families (FPSS) formula grants from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, with active awards running through September 30, 2027; and a Special Diabetes Program for Indians cooperative agreement from HHS Office of the Director (January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2027) delivering diabetes prevention, education, and community wellness activities targeting Cibola and McKinley County populations where diabetes prevalence runs approximately double state and national averages.

Customer concentration is distributed across federal education, labor, and health agencies. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families leads by award count (31 awards across CWSS and FPSS programs), followed by HHS Public Health Service (19 awards), the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (19 awards), and the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration (15 awards). These four customer organizations account for 77% of all awards in the source data. The organization acts as prime recipient in 95% of awards; five sub-awards show the organization receiving pass-through funding from the State of New Mexico Public Education Department for school food assistance reimbursements, a sub-award from the National Fund for Excellence in American Indian Education for K–12 Navajo language immersion programming at Pine Hill Schools, and a sub-award from the University of New Mexico for an unfunded budget amendment.

Activity shows recent expansion — four awards in 2022 growing to ten awards in 2025 — with seven awards reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, including the CWSS-2024, FPSS-2024, and FPSS-2023 formula grants concluding between September and October 2025. The organization delivers employment and training services directly with minimal subrecipient involvement across all WIOA grants, maintaining organizational control over program implementation and performance measurement against six WIOA outcomes: second and fourth quarter post-exit employment, median earnings, credential attainment, skill gains, and service to employers.