San Juan School District

San Juan School District, a local government K-12 public school district located in Blanding, Utah, serves as a federal grant recipient (40% of recent awards) and subrecipient (60%) focused on indigenous language preservation, cultural programming, and comprehensive educational services for Native American students. The district operates as a pure grant recipient with no federal contracts, drawing federal funding exclusively from Department of Education programs and smaller amounts from the Department of the Interior.

San Juan School District's federal portfolio centers on Indian education and Impact Aid formula grants from the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, which accounts for 71 awards across the source data. The district is the primary recipient of Indian Education Grants to Local Educational Agencies (CFDA 84.060), a recurring formula grant providing annual funding to support academic instruction, cultural programming, teacher professional development, and English language learning tailored to Native American students; the most recent award under this program was $360,282 for the period July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027. The district also holds a $9.338 million Impact Aid Program Title VII Section 7003 award (CFDA 84.041) from the Department of Education, running October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2031, which supports school operations where federally connected children (including those on Indian lands) comprise at least three percent of average daily attendance. In October 2025, the district received three competitive Project Grants under the Indian Education — Special Programs for Indian Children program (CFDA 84.299) totaling $2.612 million across three fiscal years (through September 30, 2027): "Our People Will Lead Our Children" ($758,800), "Our People Will Teach Our Children" ($858,475), and "Fostering Harmony of Heart and Mind for Our Children" ($894,758), each focused on indigenous education and cultural preservation through demonstration and professional development activities.

The district also operates as a subrecipient under the Utah State Board of Education on flow-through federal awards covering school meal programs (National School Lunch, School Breakfast, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, Child and Adult Day Care Program Meals), special education formula grants (IDEA flow-through allocations), Title I elementary and secondary education support, career and technical education, English language learner instruction, McKinney-Vento homeless education, and preschool special education. Recent sub-awards from Utah State Board of Education span from January 2024 to June 2026 and include National School Lunch Free and Reduced ($24 million), School Breakfast Program ($6 million), IDEA Flow-Through Formula for Special Education ($5 million), Title IA Flow-Through ($4 million), and Supporting Effective Instruction Flow-Through allocations.

The district holds three small purchase orders from the Department of the Interior for land rental services and heritage language resource center establishment. The Department of Interior Intermountain Region awarded $37,125 on June 28, 2026, for land rental services with performance in Price, Utah. The Bureau of Indian Education awarded $10,822 on July 18, 2023, for Heritage Language Resource Center establishment to preserve indigenous languages, and $19,700 on April 20, 2022, for Navajo-Diné language resources.

Activity has grown substantially year over year, from four awards in 2022 to sixty in 2024, though the award count in 2026 reflects only partial-year data as of July 1, 2026. The combined potential value across all 191 awards (prime and sub) in the source data is $383 thousand, with $185 million in combined dollars obligated, indicating that awarded federal funding significantly exceeds initially stated contract ceilings — a characteristic of formula grants and flow-through sub-awards where potential value represents only the initial award segment rather than the full multi-year commitment. The district's top five customer agencies by award count (Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service, Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Department of Education Office of Career Technical and Adult Education, and Department of Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Navajo Region) account for 87% of awards. Five awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating renewal opportunities for the district's core Indian Education and Impact Aid programs.