Susanville Indian Rancheria

Susanville Indian Rancheria, a federally recognized tribal government headquartered in Susanville, California, serves as the prime recipient of federal grants across health, social services, transportation, education, and environmental programs, operating 98% of its recent awards as a prime grant recipient rather than as a federal contractor or subrecipient. The Rancheria competes without set-aside restrictions as a tribally owned government entity and houses three named subsidiaries: Terra Solutions & Services Inc. (a tribally owned for-profit firm certified as a minority-owned small disadvantaged business), Susanville Indian Rancheria (the tribal government itself), and Susanville Indian Rancheria Housing Authority (a tribal housing authority).

Susanville Indian Rancheria's federal grant footprint centers on formula and block grant funding from the Office of Child Care, the Federal Highway Administration, the National Park Service, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Recent representative work includes a three-year Child Care and Development Block Grant (CFDA 93.575) awarded by the Office of Child Care in October 2025 for $103,745, under which the Rancheria acts as the designated lead agency providing child care subsidies and early childhood development infrastructure to tribal members through September 2028. The Rancheria received a $500 thousand EPA Brownfields Multipurpose Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 66.818) in July 2023 to conduct remediation activities on brownfield sites in Susanville through June 2027, with a sub-recipient performing technical documentation. A Tribal Opioid Response Project Grant from the SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, awarded in September 2024 and running through September 2029, funds prevention and harm reduction services targeting opioid and methamphetamine use disorders among tribal members and Alaska Native/Hawaiian Native populations across Lassen County, with case management and culturally grounded recovery activities. The Rancheria also acts as a recipient of recurring Highway Planning and Construction grants (CFDA 20.205) from the Federal Highway Administration for tribal transportation program funding, with awards in 2026, 2025, 2024, and 2023 supporting road infrastructure projects.

Customer concentration is broad across 35 distinct federal agencies. The top five funders by award count account for 43% of recent awards: the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (17 awards and 14 awards in separate program lines), the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (14 awards), the Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration (13 awards), and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Education (11 awards). Awards cluster most heavily in Medical/Managed Healthcare (9 awards) and Social/Direct Aid to Tribal Governments under Public Law 93-638 (7 awards), reflecting the Rancheria's role as a community health and social services provider. Activity has remained steady — eight awards in 2022 rising to twelve in 2024, with five in 2025 and one in 2026 — though eleven awards (combined value not specified in source) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and thus enter recompete window.

Recent grant work includes a $198 thousand Highway Planning and Construction grant from FHWA for FY24 tribal transportation funding, a Native American Library Services Basics grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded in August 2026 for library operations and archival services through July 2027, education enrichment and after-school tutoring grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supporting STEM and cultural learning through March 2026, National Park Service Historic Preservation Fund grants (CFDA 15.904) for tribal historic preservation office activities protecting sacred sites and heritage sites across the Rancheria's trust lands, and Victims of Crime Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside funding for culturally appropriate victim services. The Rancheria also received a $500 thousand Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund grant from the Department of the Treasury in May 2023 for broadband infrastructure deployment, including microwave base station installation and fixed wireless service connecting 300 unserved tribal households plus key facilities (health center, education building, library) through December 2026, and an Indian Health Service Cooperative Agreement beginning January 2023 for diabetes prevention and treatment services at the Lassen Indian Health Center. Sub-award activity is minimal — only three sub-awards in the source, including a homeland security strategy implementation sub-award in August 2024 and street outreach shelter data collection work in February 2022 — confirming the Rancheria's primary role as a direct federal grant recipient administering tribal and community benefit programs rather than as a subcontractor or sub-recipient.