Yampa Valley Sustainability Council

Yampa Valley Sustainability Council, doing business as Western Resilience Center, is a Colorado-based tax-exempt nonprofit that serves as a federal grant recipient and sub-recipient in rural economic development and watershed management programs. The vendor operates exclusively in grant work, not contracts, with a split footprint of one prime grant and two sub-grant awards across the past several years.

The vendor's federal footprint is sparse and geographically targeted. As a prime recipient, Yampa Valley Sustainability Council holds a Rural Business Cooperative Services Rural Business Development Grant (RBDG) awarded July 31, 2023, with an ultimate completion date of July 31, 2025. In its sub-recipient role, the organization staffs a Watershed Coordinator position under the National Forest Foundation's Headwaters of the Colorado initiative (sub-award dated January 1, 2026) and deploys regional coordinators for the Colorado Energy Office's Accelerator Program to provide community outreach and technical assistance around emissions-reduction initiatives (sub-award dated June 10, 2025). Funding sources span the Department of Agriculture's Rural Business Cooperative Services, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, and the Environmental Protection Agency (both headquarters and Region 8). Combined federal dollars obligated across all four awards total $239 thousand. Activity is episodic rather than sustained — one award in 2019, one in 2023, and one each in 2025 and 2026 — with no indication of recurring vehicle placement or pipeline beyond the current sub-grants. The vendor does not hold seats on government-wide contracts, BPAs, or agency IDIQs. As a nonprofit regional organization, Yampa Valley Sustainability Council's federal engagement centers on small rural development and watershed coordination grants in the Mountain West, with no set-aside designation or commercial contracting posture.