Squaxin Island Tribe

Squaxin Island Tribe, a federally recognized Indian tribe headquartered in Shelton, Washington, receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient across social services, natural resources management, public health, and tribal infrastructure programs. The tribe operates approximately 3,000 acres of trust lands with roughly 1,112 enrolled members and serves a broader community of approximately 2,629 people in Mason, Thurston, and Grays Harbor Counties. The tribe does business as Little Creek Casino Resort and is structured as a tribal government entity; it holds no federal contracts as a prime or sub contractor, but operates exclusively through grant vehicles.

The tribe's federal funding footprint reflects concentrated activity in tribally-focused social and health services alongside environmental stewardship and infrastructure work. Recent grant recipients include the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living (20 awards), Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 (18 awards), Federal Transit Administration (15 awards), and Department of Housing and Urban Development Public and Indian Housing Office (15 awards). These five customers account for 34 percent of the tribe's award count. The tribe also works with the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office on Violence Against Women, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Park Service, FEMA, and the Office for Victims of Crime.

The tribe's recent grant portfolio spans domestic violence prevention, tribal youth development, victim services, elder nutrition and supportive services, brownfields response and environmental management, tribal transit operations and capital infrastructure, historic preservation, and substance abuse treatment and recovery support. Representative work includes a $895,949 Bureau of Justice Assistance Tribal Justice Assistance grant (CFDA 16.596) for criminal justice and substance abuse intervention, effective October 2025 through September 2030; a $981,794 Office on Violence Against Women continuation award (CFDA 16.587) for domestic violence services through September 2028; a $546,353 Bureau of Justice Assistance Tribal Youth Program grant (CFDA 16.731) supporting teen development and leadership training through September 2030; a $600,000 EPA Region 10 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 66.121) for Puget Sound fish population recovery and GIS-enabled natural resource management through September 2030; a $411,795 Federal Transit Administration grant (CFDA 20.509) for bus facility design and construction, completing December 2026; and a $157,530 Administration on Community Living grant (CFDA 93.047) supporting elder nutrition and caregiver services through March 2029. The tribe also receives recurring formula grants from the Administration on Aging for Native American nutrition and caregiver support under CFDA 93.047, historic preservation funding from the National Park Service under CFDA 15.904, and victim services set-aside awards from the Office for Victims of Crime under CFDA 16.841.

Activity has averaged roughly eleven awards per year over the past five years, with a total of 236 awards (prime and sub) in the source dataset spanning from 1998 to the present. The combined potential value across all awards is $56,000, though the combined obligated amount across all awards is $157.4 million, indicating substantial prior-year spending against formula and multi-year grant authorities. Eight awards are scheduled for ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete opportunity. The tribe acts as prime recipient on 91 percent of its federal awards and as sub-recipient on 9 percent, primarily through pass-throughs routed via the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission for salmon recovery and ESA-listed salmonid habitat protection work under NOAA and Department of Commerce authorities, and through Washington State health and commerce department intermediaries for behavioral health services and victim services funding.