Tipmont Rural Electric Membership Corporation

Tipmont Rural Electric Membership Corporation, a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Linden, Indiana, operates as a sub-recipient on federal broadband infrastructure and disaster recovery grants rather than as a prime contractor or federal vendor. The organization has received 13 federal grant sub-awards over the past five years, with 92% of its federal footprint routed through sub-recipient roles under state and federal grantees; it holds no prime federal contracts and no seats on government-wide acquisition vehicles.

Tipmont's federal grant work centers on broadband infrastructure deployment and fiber optic replacement across rural Indiana. The bulk of recent sub-award activity (eleven of thirteen awards) flows through the Department of the Treasury's Departmental Offices, with the remaining work split between the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In April 2022, Tipmont received multiple sub-award tranches totaling $3.268 million (each) from the State of Indiana as prime grantee for a broadband infrastructure project encompassing 938 service passings in parts of Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe, and White County, designed to deliver symmetrical download and upload speeds of 100 Mbps with a local match of $3.268 million per project tranche for a total project cost of $6.537 million per tranche. Most recently, in October 2025, Tipmont received a sub-award from Indiana Department of Homeland Security for fiber optic replacement work under FEMA disaster recovery grant DR4882. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $37.1 million, though the source does not specify dollar values for individual 2020 or 2025 awards. Activity bunched heavily in 2022 (eleven awards) and has been sparse before and after that cycle, with only one award each in 2020 and 2025 in the available data. Tipmont's positioning as a nonprofit electric cooperative sub-recipient rather than a federal prime places it outside standard federal contractor competition and procurement vehicles; potential teaming value lies in rural broadband and infrastructure grant execution rather than federal contract procurement.