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Aid To Tribal Governments

Program Information

Popular name

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Program Number

15.020

Program objective

To provide funds to Indian tribal governments to support general tribal government operations, to maintain up-to-date tribal enrollment, to conduct tribal elections, and to develop appropriate tribal policies, legislation, and regulations.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2020

    Indian Affairs (IA) successfully fulfilled program objective; a combined 278 Self-Determination and Self-Governance awards issued to Indian Tribes in FY 20.

  2. 2021

    Indian Affairs issued 200 new awards and modifications to existing awards to 161 recipients.

  3. 2022

    Awards 46 grants to entities to complete the goals and objectives of the program.

  4. 2023

    This award funded 669 program to provide funds to Indian tribal governments to support general tribal government operations, to maintain up-to-date tribal enrollment, to conduct tribal elections, and to develop appropriate tribal policies, legislation, and regulations.

  5. 2024

    This award funded 240 program to provide funds to Indian tribal governments to support general tribal government operations, to maintain up-to-date tribal enrollment, to conduct tribal elections, and to develop appropriate tribal policies, legislation, and regulations. in addition, to allocate American rescue plan act (ARPA) funding to provide financial assistance suffered by the tribe due to the COVID 19 pandemic.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

25 CFR Part 900

  1. Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, Public Law 93-638, as amended, 25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.

Program details

Eligible beneficiaries

  • American Indian
  • Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments
  • Native American Organizations

Additional resources