Tulalip Tribes Of Washington

Tulalip Tribes Of Washington Grants & Self-Governance Division, a federally recognized tribal government and parent entity headquartered in Tulalip, Washington (UEI ELUVLMGA6RD1), operates as a prime recipient of federal grants across social services, environmental management, criminal justice, and tribal self-governance programs. The Tulalip Tribes—successors to the Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Skagit, Suiattle, Samish, and Stillaguamish tribes under the Treaty of Point Elliott (1855)—represent a sovereign tribal government serving over 5,000 tribal members, with approximately 2,700 residing on the 22,000-acre reservation in Snohomish County, Washington, north of Everett and Marysville. The Grants & Self-Governance Division manages the tribe's federal grant portfolio and self-determination initiatives.

The Tulalip Tribes operate predominantly as federal grant recipients rather than federal contractors. Recent federal activity spans 567 total awards (493 prime, 87%; 74 sub-awards, 13%) across 57 distinct customer agencies, with combined potential value of $1 million and combined obligated dollars of $467.6 million. The portfolio is heavily weighted toward grant funding rather than contracts—the single named federal contract vehicle is an indefinite delivery contract (N6247486C0991) with two task orders. The only named prime federal contracts are five annual Tribal Employment Rights Ordinance (TERO) service awards from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, ranging from $30 thousand to $33.6 thousand per fiscal year (FY 2022–FY 2026).

Grant work dominates the Tulalip Tribes' federal footprint. Top customer agencies by award count include the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (82 awards), the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Education (40 awards), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (32 awards), EPA Region 10 (30 awards), and the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (29 awards); these five account for 38 percent of awards. Potential value concentration mirrors this distribution, with HHHS/ACF, DOI/BIA, EEOC, EPA Region 10, and NOAA anchoring 45 percent of combined potential value. Recent awards span formula grants, project grants, block grants, and cooperative agreements across child care (CFDA 93.575, 93.596), child support enforcement (CFDA 93.563), older Americans Act services (CFDA 93.047), environmental protection (CFDA 66.001, 66.038, 66.046, 66.121, 66.605, 66.817), tribal justice (CFDA 16.025, 16.585, 16.596, 16.710, 16.838, 16.841, 16.590), and broadband infrastructure (CFDA 11.029).

Representative grant awards demonstrate the Tulalip Tribes' scope and scale. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration awarded a $31.47 million project grant (CFDA 11.029, March 1, 2025) for fiber-to-the-premises broadband infrastructure serving 669 unserved households on the reservation, executed by Salish Networks, the tribally owned competitive local exchange carrier. The Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded a $899.5 thousand project grant (CFDA 16.596, October 1, 2025) to fund the Mental Wellness Alternatives Program addressing co-occurring mental illness, developmental disabilities, and substance use among justice-involved individuals. The Department of Health and Human Services awarded a $2.01 million block grant (CFDA 93.563, October 1, 2025) for comprehensive tribal child support enforcement services. EPA Region 10 awarded a $215.4 thousand formula grant (CFDA 66.001, January 1, 2027) for air pollution control program support addressing PM2.5 from woodstoves, wildfires, and diesel emissions. The Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded a $421.6 thousand project grant (CFDA 16.841, October 1, 2025) for a Child Advocacy Center strengthening child abuse investigation and prosecution capacity.

The Tulalip Tribes act as sub-recipients on federal grants from state and local prime grantees and national non-profit organizations. Recent sub-award relationships include awards from the Health Care Authority (multiple sub-awards for behavioral health services and crisis response teams), the Superintendent of Public Instruction (child nutrition programs), the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (salmon recovery and ESA-listed species restoration activities), The Recreation & Conservation Office (floodplain reconnection, barrier removal, and habitat acquisition projects), NOAA (through state partners for fish barrier removal in the Snohomish and Stillaguamish basins), the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (forage fish habitat mapping), and the University of Washington (collaborative research on intergenerational learning and natural resource decision-making). Sub-award work emphasizes environmental restoration, salmon habitat recovery, behavioral health service delivery, and victim services coordination.

Activity has contracted year over year, from 45 awards in 2024 to 30 in 2025, 8 in 2026, and 1 in 2027 in the source data window; this trajectory reflects the temporal distribution of grant cycles rather than declining federal engagement. Twenty-three awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $33 thousand and face recompete risk. Top NAICS/PSC categories reflect the tribal government service mandate: Human Rights Organizations (23 awards), all other professional services (3), Social Direct Aid To Tribal Governments under Public Law 93-638 (34 awards), Support Professional Legal services (36), and Medical Managed Healthcare (12). Corporate structure includes two named subsidiaries: Tulalip Casino Inc. and Salish Networks, Inc., a tribally owned competitive local exchange carrier certified as a minority-owned business and self-certified small disadvantaged business that executes broadband infrastructure projects on behalf of the tribe.