Skokomish Indian Tribe

Skokomish Indian Tribe, a federally recognized tribal government headquartered in Skokomish, Washington, operates as a federal grant recipient (91% of recent awards as prime recipient) delivering social services, environmental management, public safety, and community infrastructure programs to federal agencies across health, human services, environmental, and justice portfolios. The tribe does not hold federal contracts; its federal footprint is grant-funded work spanning formula grants, project grants, block grants, and cooperative agreements.

The tribe's customer base is dominated by health and human services agencies. The top five funding agencies by award count—the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living (21 awards), HHS Public Health Service (19 awards), HHS Administration for Community Living again (17 awards), HHS Administration for Children and Families (16 awards), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development Public and Indian Housing Office (14 awards)—account for 32% of recent awards. This concentration reflects the tribe's operational focus on aging services, child care, behavioral health, and housing for tribal members.

Representative prime grant work includes recurring formula grants from the Administration on Aging supporting Older Americans Act Title VI programming (grants for Native Americans serving senior nutrition and caregiver support, with current awards running through March 2029); multiple Child Care and Development Fund and Block Grant awards from HHS Office of Child Care (most recent awards through September 2028); a $626,213 project grant from the Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services Tribal Resources Grant Equipment/Training Program (CFDA 16.710) awarded October 2025 for law enforcement equipment and training, running through September 2028; and a $712,120 cooperative agreement from EPA Region 10 under the Geographic Programs—Puget Sound Protection and Restoration (CFDA 66.121) awarded October 2025 for the tribe's Natural Resources Habitat Program conducting invasive species management, salmonid stock recovery, and watershed restoration in the Skokomish River Watershed and Hood Canal, running through September 2030. The tribe also holds a $283,000 EPA Region 10 Performance Partnership Grant (CFDA 66.605) for water quality planning, monitoring, and non-point source management (October 2025 through September 2029); a $501,601 Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women Violence Against Women Discretionary Grants award (CFDA 16.587) for victim services and crisis intervention (October 2024 through September 2026); and a $1.2 million Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance Justice System Infrastructure Program for Indian Tribes formula grant (CFDA 16.596) for construction of a modular police department facility (October 2021 through September 2026).

Activity has been steady at 10–17 awards per year over the past five years, with ten awards carrying completion dates within the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete. The tribe acts as a sub-recipient on grant work as well, holding sub-awards from the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (multiple annual subawards supporting ESA-listed salmonid recovery and treaty fishing rights, with recent subawards dated through June 2025), the Health Care Authority (behavioral health services agreements, most recent December 2025), the Superintendent of Public Instruction (child nutrition program reimbursement subawards, September 2024), and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (stream habitat restoration on the South Fork Skokomish River, March 2025). The tribe's grant portfolio also includes historical and cultural preservation work through National Park Service Tribal Historic Preservation Office grants (CFDA 15.904), broadband infrastructure deployment funded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and workforce development and diabetes prevention cooperative agreements with the Centers for Disease Control and the Department of Health and Human Services.