Toiyabe Indian Health Project, Inc.

Toiyabe Indian Health Project, Inc. (Toiyabe Indian Health Project Division) is a tribally owned, federally recognized Indian tribe–controlled health care organization based in Bishop, California, operating as the primary recipient of federal health and aging grants from the Administration on Aging, the Public Health Service, and related HHS components. The organization does not hold federal contracts or serve as a prime contractor; it receives formula grants and project grants focused on aging services, nutrition, behavioral health, opioid intervention, and public health workforce development for American Indian and Alaska Native populations across the Inyo and Mono County service area.

The vendor's federal footprint centers on grant work across Health and Human Services, with the Administration for Community Living (formerly Administration on Aging) dominating the award count. Of 186 total awards (prime recipients and sub-recipients combined), 138 stem from HHS Administration for Community Living programs under various Older Americans Act titles. The combined potential value is $5.1 million, though obligated dollars across all awards total $77 million—a 1522% ratio reflecting the vendor's long-standing participation in formula grant programs with annual renewals and multiple tranches per fiscal year. The Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service has issued 26 awards, primarily related to opioid intervention and suicide prevention programming. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service has awarded 12 grants tied to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (CFDA 10.557), where Toiyabe acts as a sub-recipient under prime grants from the California Department of Public Health.

Representative prime grant awards include two Older Americans Act Title VI, Part A grants for Native Americans ($OATA awards, April 2026, ultimate completion March 2029) and two OAA Nutrition Services Incentive Program awards ($OANT awards, April 2026, ultimate completion March 2029), all from Administration for Community Living; a Community Opioid Intervention Prevention Program project grant from SAMHSA (awarded February 2025, completion January 2030) addressing opioid-related deaths and treatment access across rural tribal communities; an Increasing Native Resilience through Local Public Health Workforce Development cooperative agreement from HHS Office of the Director (awarded July 2024, completion June 2027) establishing LVN-to-RN bridge programs and community health representative training; and a Toiyabe Suicide Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention Program grant from HHS (awarded May 2022, completion April 2027) serving youth and adults at risk. A $991,240 project grant from the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service (awarded August 2022, completion August 2024) supported facility improvements at the Toiyabe medical center in Bishop. On the sub-recipient side, Toiyabe receives monthly WIC funding tranches through the California Department of Public Health (CFDA 10.557) and serves as a sub-grantee under a National Council for Behavioral Health grant focused on harm reduction and overdose prevention in rural communities (awarded March 2025).

The organization's grant activity shows modest year-over-year volume—6 awards in 2022, 11 in 2023, 5 in 2024, 11 in 2025, and 8 in 2026 through April—with formula grants accounting for the bulk of the count through recurring Older Americans Act tranches. Four awards have ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and therefore face recompete risk. The vendor operates exclusively in the grant domain and does not pursue federal contracts or seats on government-wide acquisition vehicles; its positioning is as a tribally controlled, direct-award health services recipient for programs specifically reserved for federally recognized Indian tribes and tribal consortia serving American Indian and Alaska Native populations.