Village Of Whitehall

The Village of Whitehall, a U.S. local government entity and municipality, receives federal grants as a prime recipient focused on rural water infrastructure and community development programs administered by the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service. The village operates exclusively in the grant space rather than federal contracting, with all recent activity routed through USDA Rural Development funding mechanisms serving rural populations under 10,000.

The village's award footprint is narrowly concentrated with a single customer agency — the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service accounts for all five prime grant awards in the source data. The largest recent award is a $900,000 Emergency Community Water Assistance Grants program (CFDA 10.763) prime grant dated September 23, 2025, running through September 23, 2027. This award funds assistance for residents of rural areas experiencing significant decline in quantity or quality of water, targeting projects serving populations of 10,000 or less with median household income not exceeding 100 percent of statewide nonmetropolitan income. The village also appears as a sub-recipient on three subordinate awards issued April 2, 2026 and November 19, 2025 — a water system improvements project and two separate demolition program allocations. The grant program prioritizes projects addressing significant declines in water quantity from private individual wells or acute shortages of quality water and requires recipients to maintain records under 2 CFR 200.334 to ensure authorized use of funds.

Activity across the past twelve years shows episodic engagement rather than sustained volume — one award in 2014, two in 2018, one in 2020, three in 2025, and one in 2026 — with $6.4 million in combined dollars obligated across all eight awards. One award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The village's grant role reflects its operational mission as a municipal water and community development provider serving a rural constituency, rather than a federal contractor or service provider; the federal relationship is driven by USDA Rural Development's mandate to fund critical infrastructure in underserved rural communities. The village operates as both a prime recipient (63% of awards) and sub-recipient (37%), with subordinate awards typically flowing through intermediary state or regional development entities.