Red Lake Homeless Shelter Inc.

Red Lake Homeless Shelter Inc., a Native American-owned, minority-owned nonprofit tax-exempt organization, operates as a recipient and sub-recipient of federal grants for emergency shelter and child care administration services, with no federal contracting footprint. The organization has received ten total federal awards across the past fifteen years, with $1.7 million in combined obligated dollars, predominantly as a sub-recipient (70% of awards) under pass-through agreements with state entities.

Red Lake's federal funding derives from four customer agencies, concentrated in the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (four awards across two distinct program lines) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (two awards). The Department of Agriculture Rural Housing Service accounts for the remaining awarded activity. As a sub-recipient, Red Lake received federal grant pass-throughs from the Minnesota Department of Human Services for child care administration and development work (three sub-awards across 2021–2023), from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety for direct services to crime victims (one sub-award, December 2022), and from unspecified state administering entities for emergency shelter funding (two sub-awards, August 2021 and October 2022). Three prime awards appear in the source record but lack detail on grantor agency, program, or amount.

Award volume has been episodic rather than consistent. The organization received one award in 2016 and one in 2020, then two in 2021 and three in 2022, with only one award recorded in 2023 (most recent award June 23, 2023, for child care administration and development via Minnesota Department of Human Services). The three-year gap since the most recent award indicates no current federal award activity visible in the source. Red Lake operates exclusively within the federal grant ecosystem with no presence on GSA Schedules, government-wide acquisition contracts, or federal contracting vehicles, and has no subcontracting relationships on federal prime contracts. The organization's federal footprint consists entirely of emergency shelter operations and child care administrative services delivered through state-administered federal grant programs, principally HHS Administration for Children and Families and HUD Community Planning and Development funding streams.