Santa Rosa Rancheria Tachi Yokut Tribe

Santa Rosa Rancheria Tachi Yokut Tribe, operating as Santa Rosa Rancheria, is a federally recognized Indian tribe based in Lemoore, California, that acts as a prime recipient of federal grants focused on environmental capacity building, air quality monitoring, historic preservation, library services, and roadway safety for tribal and regional benefit. The tribe competes exclusively under tribal set-asides and does not hold federal contracts; all forty-nine awards in the recent footprint are federal grants with no subcontract work.

The tribe's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward environmental and transportation grantor agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency accounts for thirty-eight of forty-nine recent awards (about 78% of volume), split between EPA headquarters and EPA Region 9, which hold the bulk of active environmental programming. The Department of the Interior National Park Service (four awards), the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (three awards), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (one award) round out the distinct customer set. Combined dollars obligated across all grants total $5.7 million, with recent award activity averaging two to five grants per year over the past five years.

The tribe's grant portfolio centers on three capability areas. Environmental work dominates: multiple EPA Region 9 grants support air quality monitoring and capacity building (CFDA 66.926, Indian Environmental General Assistance Program), including $206 thousand under the Inflation Reduction Act for air monitor replacement and particulate matter characterization, and $100 thousand for brownfield site assessment and remediation planning under the CERCLA Section 128(A) State and Tribal Response Program. Two EPA Region 9 project grants totaling approximately $223 thousand fund ongoing air quality program operations under Section 103 of the Clean Air Act, and a $125 thousand grant supports the tribe's co-sponsorship and planning of the 2025 and 2026 Tribal/EPA Region 9 Annual Conferences. Historic preservation funding flows through National Park Service Tribal Historic Preservation Office formula grants (CFDA 15.904), and library services are funded through an Institute of Museum and Library Services project grant for library materials acquisition and programming. A $240 thousand Safe Streets and Roads for All grant from the Federal Highway Administration (CFDA 20.939) supports development of a Comprehensive Safety Action Plan and roadway fatality-prevention initiatives.

The tribe operates with no recompete cliff exposure in the next twenty-four months; only one award completes in that window. All work is performed directly by the tribe with no external subawards. Santa Rosa Rancheria maintains a subsidiary, Rainbow-Brite Industrial Services LLC, a tribally owned limited liability company certified as a small disadvantaged business that may provide operational support but does not appear in the grant award footprint.