Round Valley Indian Tribes

Round Valley Indian Tribes, a federally recognized tribal government headquartered in Covelo, California, receives federal grants across social services, environmental management, energy development, and infrastructure programs, operating exclusively as a grant recipient (95% of recent awards) rather than a federal contractor. The tribe does not hold federal contracts or IDVs and competes for and receives formula and project grants from HHS, EPA, Department of Interior, DOJ, and other agencies serving tribal constituencies and tribal land management objectives.

The tribe's grant portfolio concentrates heavily in HHS child care and family assistance programs. The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is the dominant funding source, with 26 awards anchoring the portfolio across the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs. Representative prime awards include $1.946 million in CCDBG Discretionary funding (CFDA 93.575) through September 2028 for child care subsidies and quality improvement, $1.72 million in TANF block grant funding for FY 2026 for financial assistance and employment services, $804,252 in Head Start project grant funding (CFDA 93.600) from the Office of Head Start through December 2030 for early childhood education and family support, and $208,260 in Child Care and Development Fund mandatory and matching grants (CFDA 93.596) through September 2028. The Administration for Community Living funds Older Americans Act programming, with 15 and 14 awards respectively under Title VI Part A (Native Americans) and Title VI Part C (Native American Caregivers Support) as formula grants, plus Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and infrastructure supplement funding.

Beyond social services, the tribe receives environmental and resource-development grants. EPA Region 9 awarded $113,275 under the Indian Environmental General Assistance Program (CFDA 66.926) for solid waste and air quality capacity building and $65,000 for water quality monitoring and tribal assessment reporting. The Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs funded $477,930 in obligated funding under the Minerals and Mining on Indian Lands program (CFDA 15.038) for hard rock quarry testing and reserve definition at the Upper Short Creek West Quarry, and $594,928 under the Tribal Energy Development Capacity Grants program (CFDA 15.148) for aggregate reserve testing and business planning for the 7 Tribes Rock Quarry LLC. The Bureau of Reclamation awarded $111,000 under the Indian Tribal Water Resources Development, Management, and Protection program (CFDA 15.519) for groundwater management planning. The Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance funded a $500,000 five-year project grant (CFDA 16.731) for tribal youth prevention programming addressing underage drinking, opioid use, and missing or murdered indigenous persons, while the Office for Victims of Crime administered formula grants under the Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Program (CFDA 16.841) for culturally appropriate victim services. The Department of Energy funded a Bipartisan Infrastructure Law electric grid resilience formula grant through April 2032, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded $1.27 million for tribal capacity building in dam removal and stream management at the Potter Valley Project. The National Park Service awards recurring Historic Preservation Fund grants for tribal historic preservation office activities under CFDA 15.904.

Activity remains relatively flat across the past five years, with 10 awards in 2022 ramping to 16 in 2023, then declining to 12 in 2025 and 5 in the first four months of 2026. Seventeen awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, exposing recompete risk in formula programs renewing annually or on multi-year cycles. The tribe receives sub-awards from the State of California Department of Social Services and Office of Emergency Services, primarily for Child and Adult Food Care Program (CACFP) nutrition services and victim services under the Office on Violence Against Women program. Combined federal dollars obligated across all 203 awards (spanning from 1992 to April 2026) total $124.7 million, with the most recent activity concentrated in HHS child care and family assistance entitlements, tribal capacity-building grants from Interior, and victim services and youth prevention funding from DOJ.