Chitimacha Tribe Of Louisiana

Chitimacha Tribe Of Louisiana, a federally recognized tribal government headquartered in Jeanerette, Louisiana, operates as a prime recipient of federal grants across human services, community development, transportation, and public safety programs, with no federal contract prime footprint. The tribe acts exclusively as a grant recipient rather than a contractor, receiving awards directly from federal agencies to support tribal governmental functions and community services for its members and the Saint Mary Parish region.

The tribe's customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, which accounts for 68 of 173 total awards in the source record. The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education follows with 19 awards, and the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration with 10. These three agencies represent 56% of award volume. Grant programs anchor the portfolio: Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) formula and block grants from the Office of Child Care recur across multiple fiscal years; Child Welfare Social Services (CWSS) and Promoting Safe and Stable Families (FPSS) grants from Administration on Children Youth and Families are recurring formula awards; Indian Education Formula Grants to Local Educational Agencies from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education span multiple years; and Tribal Transportation Program grants from the Federal Highway Administration (CFDA 20.289) support on-reservation infrastructure and road maintenance. Recent concrete examples include a $1.76 million Tribal Transportation Program award from FHWA dated November 13, 2025, a $3.35 million Indian Housing Block Grant (CFDA 14.867) from HUD's Public and Indian Housing Office awarded January 3, 2025, a $1.72 million Tribal Climate Resilience block grant (CFDA 15.156) from the Bureau of Indian Affairs dated July 18, 2024, and a $708,054 Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grant (CFDA 16.710) from the COPS Office dated October 1, 2024, to fund law enforcement hiring and tribal community policing capacity.

The tribe operates three tribally owned subsidiaries: Sitimaxa Holdings LLC (tribally owned, minority-owned nonprofit); Keta International LLC (tribally owned, Indian Economic Enterprise, self-certified small disadvantaged business); and Keta Group LLC (tribally owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business). The subsidiary structure reflects the tribe's leveraging of federal small business and minority-owned enterprise designations, although the source does not detail specific capabilities or contracting roles these entities perform.

Activity has grown modestly from 8 awards in 2022 to a peak of 16 in 2024, with 15 awards in 2025 and 2 recorded in 2026 (reflecting the recency of the source snapshot). Fourteen awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating recompete opportunity for the tribe to renew recurring formula grants from ACF, HHS, and DOEd. The tribe's combined obligated dollars across all awards total $76.1 million against a combined potential value of $24 thousand, indicating the portfolio is heavily weighted to realized spending rather than future task-order capacity. The tribe does not hold seats on federal contract vehicles (GWACs, IDIQs, BPAs) — its revenue model is entirely grant-based, flowing from federal agencies directly to tribal governmental operations for service delivery within reservation boundaries and to the surrounding community.