Snoqualmie Indian Tribe

Snoqualmie Indian Tribe, doing business as Snoqualmie Entertainment Authority, is a federally recognized Indian tribe based in Snoqualmie, Washington, that receives federal grants as prime recipient to support environmental stewardship, child care and early childhood services, older adult support, transit operations, and behavioral health programs serving tribal members and surrounding communities. The tribe does not hold federal contracts or prime seats on contracting vehicles; all federal funding flows through grants and cooperative agreements administered by HHS, EPA, Department of Transportation, Department of Interior, and related agencies. The tribe acts as prime recipient on 89% of its recent federal awards (141 of 158 total) and as sub-recipient on 11% (17 sub-awards routed through state health agencies and regional fisheries commissions).

The tribe's customer base reflects a heavy concentration in entitlement and formula grants. The top five funding agencies account for 53% of recent awards: the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families leads with 23 awards centered on child care development block grants (CCDBG and CCDF) and victim services (CFDA 93.575, 93.596); the Administration for Community Living follows with 21 awards spanning older Americans Act Title VI programs (CFDA 93.047, 93.048, 93.049) and native caregiver support (CFDA 93.048); the Federal Transit Administration accounts for 17 awards funding demand-response transit operations (CFDA 20.509); EPA Region 10 provides 12 awards for environmental and climate resilience work; and HUD's Public and Indian Housing Office contributes 10 awards for community development initiatives. This concentration in formula entitlements and formula grants means the tribe's access to federal funding is largely statutory rather than competitive.

Capability work spans four distinct domains. Child care and early childhood programming anchors the largest volume: the tribe has received recurring CCDBG block grants (most recently $2.54 million for FY2026 through FY2028, CFDA 93.575) and CCDF formula grants ($273,465 for FY2026–FY2028, CFDA 93.596) to provide child care subsidies and quality improvement support to low-income tribal families. Older adult services include recurring formula grants from Administration for Community Living under Older Americans Act Title VI, Part A (nutrition and supportive services, CFDA 93.047), Title VI, Part C (Native American caregiver support, CFDA 93.048), and the Nutrition Services Incentive Program (CFDA 93.053). Transit operations draw repeated formula grants from FTA for demand-response service maintenance ($152,897 for FY2025–FY2026, CFDA 20.509). Environmental and climate programs represent the largest single-award values: a $2.96 million EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grants cooperative agreement (CFDA 66.046, January 2025–December 2029) funds forest restoration, reforestation, and wildfire fuel reduction across 1,800 acres of ancestral forest; a $1.99 million USDA Forest Service Landscape Scale Restoration grant (CFDA 10.731, December 2024–December 2027) supports forest resilience and climate adaptation; a $600,000 EPA Puget Sound Protection and Restoration cooperative agreement (CFDA 66.121, October 2025–September 2030) supports watershed planning, water quality monitoring, and habitat restoration in the Snoqualmie River Valley and Sammamish River Watershed; and a $710,992 Bureau of Reclamation Applied Science grant (CFDA 15.557, November 2024–February 2027) funds flow and water quality data collection and hydrologic modeling for the North Fork Tolt River Watershed to support forest management and endangered species protection.

Recent activity shows steady grant receipt with 8 awards in 2022, 16 in 2023, 17 in 2024, 11 in 2025, and 6 in 2026 (through August 15). Fourteen awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, creating a modest recompete footprint but reflecting the recurring nature of formula entitlements, which typically roll forward annually. In its sub-recipient role, the tribe receives pass-through funding from the Washington State Health Care Authority for behavioral health services ($2.1 million across four awards in 2024–2026), from the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission for Puget Sound implementation work (annual increments under the Puget Sound Action Agenda, Fiscal Years 2021–2025), and from Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife for ancestral forest and floodplain restoration. The tribe also partners with the WomenSpirit Coalition on a $3+ million Office on Violence Against Women grant (CFDA 16.588) to deliver supervised visitation, civil legal services, and domestic violence advocacy to survivors of intimate partner violence.

The tribe's federal footprint reflects its status as a sovereign federally recognized Indian nation with treaty rights to fish, hunt, and gather on ancestral lands in the Snoqualmie River watershed. Federal funding priorities align with tribal self-determination goals in health sovereignty (a $360,000 Indian Health Service Tribal Self-Governance Planning Cooperative Agreement, CFDA 93.444, supports assessment of readiness to assume control of IHS-funded health programs), environmental stewardship tied to treaty obligations and cultural preservation, and community services supporting tribal members and surrounding communities across King County, Washington.