Susanville Indian Rancheria

Susanville Indian Rancheria, a federally recognized tribal government headquartered in Susanville, California, receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient across health services, transportation infrastructure, child care, cultural preservation, and community development programs. The Rancheria operates as a tribal government entity (98% of recent awards as prime recipient) and acts as a sub-recipient in a minimal capacity (2%), with no federal contract prime or subcontract awards in the source data. The Rancheria is tribally owned and operates subsidiary entities including Terra Solutions & Services Inc. (tribally owned firm, minority-owned small disadvantaged business), Susanville Indian Rancheria Housing Authority (tribal government, housing authority), and the parent Susanville Indian Rancheria tribal government itself.

The Rancheria's grant portfolio centers on four principal capability areas grounded in recent awards. Health and social services dominate by award count: the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families funds child care and development block grants and discretionary grants; the Rancheria serves as the designated lead agency providing child care subsidies and early childhood development infrastructure to tribal members under the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CFDA 93.575) with a $262,271.20 award dated October 1, 2025, running through September 30, 2028. Transportation infrastructure represents the second-largest category: the Federal Highway Administration funds recurring Tribal Transportation Program awards under CFDA 20.289 (formula and project grants); recent FY 2026 awards total $380,014.96 (December 4, 2025, through September 30, 2026) for tribal road construction, preservation, and maintenance on reservation and tribal lands. Cultural and historical preservation work includes Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) consultation grants from the National Park Service (CFDA 15.922) to identify and repatriate cultural collections and remains, and Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid (CFDA 15.904) supporting tribal historic preservation office activities under the National Historic Preservation Act. Library and educational enrichment programs are funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Native American Library Services Basics Grant (award date August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2027) for library materials acquisition, staff training, and community programming; this work includes after-school tutoring and summer enrichment for transitional kindergarten through twelfth grade with Native art and science-based gardening components connected to the four anthropological groups comprising the Rancheria (Maidu, Northern Paiute, Pit River, Washoe). Substance abuse treatment and prevention work is funded through the SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Treatment under the Tribal Opioid Response Grant program, with the "Back to the Circle" project (awarded September 30, 2024, through September 29, 2029) providing case management, harm reduction services, and culturally defined recovery training targeting opioid and methamphetamine use disorders in Lassen County and surrounding rural northeastern California. Infrastructure and environmental remediation work includes a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement from EPA Region 9 under the Brownfields program (CFDA 66.818, July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2027) to remediate multiple brownfield sites and deploy qualified environmental professionals, and a broadband infrastructure deployment project from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (awarded November 1, 2022, through October 31, 2027) to install microwave base station towers and provide 1 Gbps fixed wireless service to 300 unserved Native American households plus tribal health, education, and administration facilities.

Customer concentration is broadly distributed across thirty-five distinct federal agencies. The top five funding sources by award count (Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration, and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs) account for 43% of awards. The Rancheria receives recurring formula and project grants from the Federal Highway Administration for tribal transportation infrastructure and from the Office of Child Care for child care block grants and discretionary funding as recurring, multi-year vehicles. Activity has tracked at six to twelve awards per year over the past five years (2022–2026), with eleven awards reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure. The Rancheria operates with minimal sub-award activity; two sub-awards in the source data include a state homeland security planning and equipment award (August 29, 2024) and a street outreach shelter data collection award (February 25, 2022), both indicating pass-through grant administration from higher-tier federal recipients rather than Rancheria-led procurement.