DOI TRB WA Upper Skagit Indian Tribe

The Upper Skagit Indian Tribe, a federally recognized Indian tribal government headquartered in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, receives federal grants as a prime recipient across social services, environmental protection, healthcare, education, and disaster resilience programs, with no federal contracting footprint. The Tribe operates predominantly under formula grants and block grants reserved for federally recognized tribes, with 94% of recent awards as prime recipient and 6% as sub-recipient through pass-through arrangements with state and regional intermediaries.

The Tribe's customer concentration is driven by social-services and health-services agencies. The top five funding federal agencies account for 54% of recent awards, led by the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Education (48 awards), the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (34 awards), and the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living (22 and 18 awards across two sub-office structures), with the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education rounding the set (18 awards). Activity has remained flat at roughly 10 awards per year through 2024, declining to 7 in 2025 and 6 in the first five months of 2026; eight awards are due to complete within the next twenty-four months.

Representative prime grant work includes a $731,500 FEMA Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) project grant (CFDA 97.047) awarded November 2023 for hazard mitigation through November 2026, a $600,000 EPA Cooperative Agreement under the Geographic Programs—Puget Sound Protection and Restoration: Tribal Implementation Assistance Program (CFDA 66.121) awarded October 2025 for watershed protection and salmon recovery across the Skagit and Samish River watersheds through September 2030, a $398,000 EPA Performance Partnership Grant (CFDA 66.605) awarded January 2026 for environmental program operations and water quality monitoring through December 2027, a $173,664 HHS Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant (CFDA 93.558) awarded October 2025 for direct financial assistance and employment services through September 2026, and three Older Americans Act grants from the Administration on Aging (Title VI Part A, Title VI Part C, and Nutrition Services Incentive Program) awarded April 2026 through March 2029 for caregiver support and nutritional services to tribal elders. Additional active grants include Indian Education Formula Grants to Local Educational Agencies (CFDA 84.060), the Native Employment Works Program (NEWP), a National Telecommunications and Information Administration project grant for broadband deployment to 76 unserved Native American households, and a Special Diabetes Program for Indians cooperative agreement from the Indian Health Service through December 2027.

The Tribe operates as a sub-recipient through pass-through awards managed by the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (salmon and steelhead habitat restoration and monitoring under ESA recovery authorities, with most recent sub-award April 2024) and the Washington State Health Care Authority (behavioral health and mental health services, with most recent sub-award May 2026). The combined potential value across all 260 awards in the source portfolio is reported as $5 thousand, which is a data artifact reflecting formula-grant and block-grant record structures; obligated dollars across all awards total $72.4 million, reflecting the Tribe's actual federal revenue stream. The Tribe's federal grant portfolio is characterized by formula-based entitlements rather than competitive procurements, reflecting its status as a federally recognized tribal government eligible for set-aside grant programs across HHS, Interior, EPA, FEMA, NTIA, and Education.