Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe

Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe is a federally recognized Native American tribal government based in King William, Virginia, that acts as a prime recipient of federal grants and a prime contractor (94% of recent awards) across environmental management, tribal health and nutrition programming, and community infrastructure development. The tribe operates as a tribal government entity with two for-profit subsidiaries — Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe Technologies, LLC and Umit Services LLC — both of which carry designations as minority-owned, tribally owned, and Indian Economic Enterprise entities.

The tribe's federal footprint centers on grant work rather than contract primes. Environmental protection and natural resource management dominate the award portfolio, with EPA Region 3 funding six awards covering water quality monitoring, data management systems, air quality assessment, and capacity building for environmental programs. Concrete examples include a project grant (awarded October 2024, completion September 2028) for EPA Region 3 supporting environmental capacity building through professional development, trainings, and program development for water resources and air quality; a competitively selected cooperative agreement (awarded April 2023, completion March 2027) for ambient air monitoring in communities with environmental and health disparities, which includes subawards for university student research stipends from Virginia Tech and George Mason University; and a project grant (awarded October 2022, completion September 2026) to develop water quality data systems with automated submission services and quality assurance procedures. The tribe also received a $146,678.61 block grant from the Federal Highway Administration (CFDA 20.205) in March 2025 for transportation infrastructure planning activities through December 2027.

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living (Administration on Aging) funds six formula grants for nutrition services and caregiver support under the Older Americans Act, with FY2026 awards (April 2026, completion March 2029) for nutrition services incentive programming, Title VI Part C Native American caregiver grants, and Title VI Part A grants for Native Americans. The Indian Health Service awarded a single purchase order ($29,250, September 2026, completion September 2027) for deployment and inventory of software licenses for the National American Indian Health System PDQ system, with performance at Window Rock, Arizona. The Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs Eastern Region funds five awards supporting tribal courts, environmental management, and fisheries restoration. HUD's Public and Indian Housing Office has placed four awards; the Administration for Native Americans funded a project grant (September 2022, completion September 2026) titled "Sovereign Promise: Realizing the Upper Mattaponi Future."

The tribe also acts as sub-recipient on two grant awards: a land conservation and restoration project through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (subaward May 2024) to acquire and restore 866 acres of ancestral lands and watershed in King William County, Virginia, and a NOAA coastal zone management acquisition and conservation subaward (July 2023) through the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality for 854.58 acres of historic tribal lands along the Mattaponi River within the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Activity has been sporadic across the 2022–2026 window (four awards in 2022, eight in 2023, four in 2024, three in 2025, four in 2026 year-to-date), with eight awards totaling $29 thousand in combined potential value reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months. The combined dollars obligated ($20.9 million) substantially exceed the combined potential value ($29 thousand) reported in the portfolio, reflecting the source data's limitation to recent awards while capturing substantial invoiced spend on grant programs running through 2027 and 2028. Fifteen distinct federal agencies have funded the tribe's work, concentrated among EPA, HHS, and Interior. The tribe does not hold seat on government-wide contract vehicles; its federal engagement operates through direct agency grants and single-award contracts rather than IDIQs or GWACs.