Wiyot Tribe

Wiyot Tribe DA ROU Gawok (Administration) Division, a federally recognized tribal government based in Loleta, California, operates as a grant recipient delivering elder services, child care and development programs, environmental management, energy infrastructure development, cultural and historic preservation, victim services, and natural resource restoration to federal agencies across the health, interior, energy, commerce, transportation, and justice portfolios.

The Wiyot Tribe is a tribal government entity with no federal contracts in its recent footprint — all 171 awards in the source data are federal grants, with 98 percent held as prime recipient awards and 2 percent as sub-recipient work. The tribe acts as direct recipient rather than contractor, administering formula grants, block grants, and project grants from grantor agencies. Recent representative work includes a $206,840 Administration on Aging formula grant under the Older Americans Act Title VI, Part A (CFDA 93.047) for nutrition and supportive services to Native American elders (awarded April 1, 2026, running through March 31, 2029); a $750,000 Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women project grant (CFDA 16.587) for domestic violence victim services and legal assistance in partnership with Indigenous Women of Wonder (awarded October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028); a $267,888 EPA Region 9 Performance Partnership Grant (CFDA 66.605) for environmental programs including water quality monitoring, hazardous waste management, and wetlands monitoring at the Table Bluff Reservation (awarded October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026); and a $245,519 Bureau of Indian Affairs Minerals and Mining on Indian Lands project grant (CFDA 15.038) for final-stage development of a Front of the Meter solar microgrid to serve tribal critical facilities (awarded September 22, 2025, through September 21, 2027).

Customer concentration in the award portfolio is fragmented across health, interior, and cultural agencies. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living and three distinct Administration for Children and Families sub-offices collectively represent 74 awards in the portfolio, spanning formula grants for child care and development (CCDF and CCDD programs), family violence prevention and services, and elder nutrition. The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science accounts for 12 awards. The remainder is distributed across the Department of the Interior (Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service), Department of Commerce (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), Department of Transportation (Federal Highway Administration), Department of Energy, Department of Justice (Office on Violence Against Women), and other federal grant programs. Activity has averaged 10–14 awards per year over the past five years, with twelve awards (primarily child care, family violence, and elder services grants) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and facing potential recompete or renewal cycles.

The tribe's grant work spans elder and caregiver support services, child care and development programs (serving low-income families and tribal children), environmental management (water quality, hazardous waste, wetlands monitoring, composting, hazard mitigation), energy infrastructure (solar and hybrid solar-biomass microgrids to reduce tribal energy costs and increase resilience), cultural preservation (Wiyot language recovery through video projects and oral history documentation, historic preservation planning under the National Historic Preservation Act), victim services (domestic violence shelter and support, crime victim services under the Tribal Victims Services Set-Aside), natural resource restoration (Pacific salmon and steelhead habitat restoration in the Eel River watershed, Pacific lamprey monitoring, invasive species management), broadband access (fiber internet pre-payment at three tribal locations), and youth education programs. In its limited sub-recipient role, the tribe receives pass-through funding from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and California Department of Social Services for Samoa Dunes and Wetlands coastal resilience work and the Child and Adult Food Care Program.