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Native American Affairs: Emergency Drought for Tribes

Award ceiling
up to $500,000
Closes
Apr 11, 2024
Last verified
2026-09-27

Awards up to $500,000 per recipient for native american tribal governments (federally recognized), closing Apr 11, 2024.

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Native American Affairs: Emergency Drought for Tribes awards up to $500,000 per recipient, open to native american tribal governments (federally recognized) in AZ, CA, CO, ID, KS, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, OK, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WY, closing Apr 11, 2024.

Record fields
Program pool (total)
$12,500,000
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$500,000
Award floor
Not confirmed
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Apr 11, 2024
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
Dec 12, 2023
Status
Closed
Eligible entities
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Geography
AZ · CA · CO · ID · KS · MT · ND · NE · NM · NV · OK · OR · SD · TX · UT · WA · WY
Matching funds
No
Disbursement
Not stated
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
Mitigate drought impacts · Increase drought resiliency · Reduce reliance on declining water sources · Increase the efficiency of water deliveries · Mitigate the loss of water and related Tribal trust resources · Address drinking water shortages · Direct financial assistance to address drinking water shortages and to mitigate the loss of Tribal trust resources
Currency
USD

How much money is available?

Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle
$12,500,000
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$500,000

Who can apply?

level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
Source field: entity types
state
AZ, CA, CO, ID, KS, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV
+7more, OK, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WY
Source field: states
industry
Source field: industries
demographic
Federally recognized Indian Tribes, Tribal organizations as defined in 25 U.S.C. Section 5304
Source field: demographics
use
Address drinking water shortages, Direct financial assistance to address drinking water shortages and to mitigate the loss of Tribal trust resources, Increase drought resiliency, Increase the efficiency of water deliveries, Mitigate drought impacts, Mitigate the loss of water and related Tribal trust resources, Reduce reliance on declining water sources
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Eligible ApplicantsTo be considered for this program, applicants will meet all the following eligibility requirements:The Tribe must be a federally recognized Indian Tribe or tribal organization, as defined in 25 U.S.C. Section 5304,The…

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Apr 11, 2024ClosedDeadline type Fixed date

What can the money be used for?

7 categorys
The source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
Mitigate drought impactsIncrease drought resiliencyReduce reliance on declining water sourcesIncrease the efficiency of water deliveriesMitigate the loss of water and related Tribal trust resourcesAddress drinking water shortagesDirect financial assistance to address drinking water shortages and to mitigate the loss of Tribal trust resources

These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.

How hard is the application?

2 fields
Effort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not stated
Matching funds
No
None of the funds provided by this section shall be subject to cost-sharing or matching requirements.

What comparable notices state

79 records
Stated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Environment & Water, 79 of 205 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$300,000
  • Median$1,000,000
  • 75th percentile$3,925,000

A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.

Common questions

7 questions
Every answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
Up to $500,000 per recipient.
How much funding is available in total?
$12,500,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
When is the application deadline?
Apr 11, 2024.
Who is eligible to apply?
Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized).
Which locations are eligible?
AZ, CA, CO, ID, KS, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, OK, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA, WY.
What can the funding be used for?
Mitigate drought impacts, Increase drought resiliency, Reduce reliance on declining water sources, Increase the efficiency of water deliveries, Mitigate the loss of water and related Tribal trust resources, Address drinking water shortages, Direct financial assistance to address drinking water shortages and to mitigate the loss of Tribal trust resources, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
No. The source states that no matching funds are required. None of the funds provided by this section shall be subject to cost-sharing or matching requirements.

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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-09-27
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-27

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