South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency

South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency, doing business as South Puget Intertribal Plnnng, is a tribally owned 501(c)(3) nonprofit consortium of five federally recognized tribes—the Chehalis, Nisqually, Skokomish, Squaxin Island, and Shoalwater Bay tribes—established in 1976 and headquartered in Shelton, Washington. The organization operates exclusively as a prime recipient of federal grants (99% of recent awards), delivering nutrition support, energy assistance, family violence prevention, cancer screening and control, vocational rehabilitation, and community economic development services to low-income and American Indian populations across eight counties in western Washington. South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency does not hold federal contracts and is not positioned to bid on contract vehicles; its federal footprint consists entirely of formula grants and project grants from HHS and USDA.

The customer base concentrates heavily within the Department of Health and Human Services. The Administration for Children and Families funds 114 awards across multiple programs; the Administration for Community Living (successor entity to the Administration on Aging) funds 104 awards; and the Public Health Service (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) anchors long-term cooperative agreement work on cancer prevention and control with a combined potential value of $902 across four awards. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service funds 28 awards for nutrition education and food distribution program administration. Together, HHS and USDA accounts represent the entire identified customer set across recent awards.

Specific recent grant work includes a $494,849 Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) formula grant from HHS Office of Community Services (Oct 2025–Sep 2027) providing utility assistance and weatherization services to the five consortium tribes; a $424,569 Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) project grant from USDA for household food certification and logistics (Oct 2025–Sep 2027); multiple Older Americans Act Title VI formula grants from the Administration for Community Living for nutrition services to seniors on tribal reservations running through March 2029; Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) formula grants from the Office of Community Services for community development and poverty reduction; and a Family Violence Prevention and Services (FVPS) formula grant from the Administration for Children and Families. Long-term cooperative agreement work includes a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cancer prevention and control program (Jun 2022–Jun 2027) supporting breast and cervical cancer screening, patient navigation, and electronic health records development across tribal clinics; and a 2022 Indian Business Incubators Program project grant supporting a Native American business incubator in Tumwater with workspace, training, and mobile services to the service area.

Award volume has declined from 13 in 2022 to 8 in 2026, averaging 8.6 awards per year over the past five years. Seven awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and will require recompete activity. South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency also receives sub-awards from state pass-through grantees: the Washington State Department of Health has passed USDA WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) client services contract funds in 2022, 2024, and 2026, and the State of Washington Department of Agriculture channeled local-food-procurement funds through SPIPA in 2022 to strengthen regional food systems and serve socially disadvantaged producers. The organization does not appear in Service Contract Inventory records above the $150,000 reporting threshold and operates no parent contract vehicles. Work is performed in Washington State, concentrated in the eight-county service area surrounding the tribal reservations, with administrative headquarters in Shelton, WA 98584.