Confederated Tribes Siletz Indians

Confederated Tribes Siletz Indians (doing business as C T S I), a federally recognized tribal government headquartered in Siletz, Oregon, operates as a prime recipient of federal grants across 57 customer agencies, serving an 11-county service area in western Oregon. The tribe does not hold prime federal contracts but receives the vast majority of its federal funding (86% of awards) as direct grant recipients rather than subrecipients, with a subsidiary, Siletz Tribal Business Corporation, designated as a tribally owned, minority-owned Indian economic enterprise.

The tribe's grant portfolio spans social services, health, environmental protection, broadband infrastructure, and community development. Recent representative work includes a $11.71 million Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grants award from the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service (CFDA 10.855) for broadband infrastructure deployment in rural Siletz, Oregon, running through January 2028; a $152,915 Safe Streets and Roads for All grant from the Federal Highway Administration (CFDA 20.939) for roadway safety initiatives through August 2028; a $358,589 Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program grant from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (CFDA 16.024) for victim services expansion through December 2028; and a $394,000 Environmental Protection Agency Performance Partnership Grant (CFDA 66.605) for water quality planning, monitoring, and environmental program capacity-building through December 2027. The tribe also received a $825,000 Bureau of Land Management Good Neighbor Authority cooperative agreement (CFDA 15.015) for fish passage restoration and watershed connectivity improvements, completing September 2030. Child care, nutrition assistance, energy assistance, and aging services formula grants from the Department of Health and Human Services represent recurring, multi-year funding streams tied to Title VI of the Older Americans Act and the Child Care and Development Block Grant.

Customer concentration is distributed across social services and interior department programs. The top five funding categories by award count—Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (74 awards), Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Education (28 awards), Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (25 awards), and Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living (23 awards)—account for approximately 40% of recent awards. Award activity shows variability: 19 awards in 2022 rising to 35 in 2023, then declining to 29 in 2024, 20 in 2025, and 18 in 2026. Nineteen awards with ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months face recompete risk, representing ongoing operational funding cycles across child welfare, nutrition services, transit, and caregiving support programs.

As a prime grant recipient, the tribe also partners as a subrecipient with state and federal pass-through entities. Sub-award work includes sea otter reintroduction planning in partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, habitat restoration and watershed improvements through multiple Oregon state agencies, and emergency management and public health initiatives flowing through Oregon Health Authority and Oregon Department of Justice. The tribe's federal grant management footprint reflects capacity across infrastructure deployment, environmental restoration, tribal social services delivery, and emergency preparedness across its western Oregon service territory.