Federal contractor · CASS LAKE, MN

LEECH LAKE BAND OF OJIBWE

LEECH LAKE BAND OF OJIBWE received $3.2M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (+46% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $6.1M. Its largest customer was Agricultural Marketing Service ($2.9M). It also received $43.6M in federal grants and other assistance in FY2026.

Obligations · FY2026
$3.2M
New awards
5
Sole-source
11%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
EBFFR37CPL55
Other than small businessNative-owned
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 32KFY2017
  2. 61.8KFY2018
  3. 1.9KFY2019
  4. 91KFY2020
  5. 73KFY2021
  6. 97.7KFY2022
  7. 198KFY2023
  8. 66.5KFY2024
  9. 2.2MFY2025
  10. 3.2MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Agricultural Marketing Service$2.9M89%
    1 awards
  2. Indian Health Service$307.9K9.5%
    3 awards
  3. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission$33K1.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$2.9M90%
  2. Education & social services$250K7.7%
  3. Transportation & logistics$47.9K1.5%
  4. Professional services$33K1.0%

Where the work was performed

  1. Cass County, MN$3.2M100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition11%
    US 39% · $340.9K
  • Sole-source awards11%
    US 30% · $340.9K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Indian Health Service$307.9K
    Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards
  2. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission$33K
    Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000011200/4100033873/RICE WILD PKG-25/1 LB$2.9M
    Agricultural Marketing Service· Cass County, MN· Other equipment & supplies· Mar 3, 2026 – Mar 3, 2026· 123J1426C0805
  2. BASE PLUS 3 OPTION YEARS IAW TERMS AND CONDITIONS.$500K
    Indian Health Service· Cass County, MN· Education & social services· Feb 26, 2025 – Feb 10, 2026· 75H70525C00005
  3. BEHAVIORAL TRANSPORT$245.4K
    Indian Health Service· Cass County, MN· Transportation & logistics· Jul 13, 2022 – May 27, 2026· 75H70522C00013
  4. FY 2026 TERO LEECH LAKE RESERVATION$33K
    Equal Employment Opportunity Commission· Cass County, MN· Professional services· Jun 3, 2026 – Jun 3, 2026· 45310026C0099
  5. CLSU SOLID WASTE RECYCLING AND DISPOSAL$10K
    Indian Health Service· Cass County, MN· Other equipment & supplies· Sep 1, 2026 – Sep 1, 2026· 75H70526P00041

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

LEECH LAKE BAND OF OJIBWE received $43.6M in federal assistance in FY2026, on 122 actions (38 new awards), −35% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 15.022 · Tribal Self-Governance ($8.4M).

Assistance · FY2026
$43.6M
New awards
38
Actions
122
Since FY2021
$401.2M

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 140.8MFY2021
  2. 33.7MFY2022
  3. 57.1MFY2023
  4. 58MFY2024
  5. 67.4MFY2025
  6. 43.6MFY2026
  7. 587.5KFY2027

By type

  1. Direct payments$22.9M52%
  2. Grants$14.8M34%
  3. Other assistance$5.9M14%

Top programs

  1. 15.022 · Tribal Self-Governance$8.4M19%
  2. 93.441 · Indian Self-Determination$6.4M15%
  3. 20.205 · Highway Planning and Construction$5.5M13%
  4. 93.600 · Head Start$4.9M11%
  5. 15.046 · Administrative Cost Grants for Indian Schools$3.3M7.6%
  6. 15.035 · Forestry on Indian Lands$2.3M5.3%
  7. 84.010 · Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies$1.8M4.2%
  8. 20.509 · Formula Grants for Rural Areas and Tribal Transit Program$1.5M3.5%

Awarding agencies

  1. Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education$23.6M54%
    Department of the Interior
  2. Indian Health Service$7.4M17%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  3. Administration for Children and Families$6.9M16%
    Department of Health and Human Services
  4. Federal Transit Administration$1.5M3.5%
    Department of Transportation
  5. Environmental Protection Agency$1.2M2.8%
  6. Food and Nutrition Service$806.1K1.8%
    Department of Agriculture
  7. Federal Emergency Management Agency$460.7K1.1%
    Department of Homeland Security
  8. Forest Service$418.1K1.0%
    Department of Agriculture

Largest awards

  1. AIAN HEAD START AND EARLY HEAD START$23.2M
    93.600 · Head Start· Administration for Children and Families· Project grant· Mar 31, 2021 – Jul 1, 2026· 90CI010076
  2. THE BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE DEPLOYMENT PROJECT PROPOSES TO INSTALL FIBER AND FIXED WIRELESS TO DIRECTLY CONNECT 4,399 UNSERVED NATIVE…$18.8M
    11.029 · Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program· National Telecommunications and Information Administration· Project grant· Dec 8, 2022 – Sep 15, 2026· NT23TBC0290017
  3. LEECH LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA TRIBAL TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM (TTP) AGREEMENT, AS AMENDED BY THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF…$15.1M
    20.205 · Highway Planning and Construction· Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education· Other financial assistance· May 13, 2024 – Sep 16, 2026· A24AV00641
  4. SELF-GOVERNANCE COMPACTS FY 2025 CR1 (@22.19%) TPA BASE DISTRIBUTION.$8.1M
    15.022 · Tribal Self-Governance· Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education· Direct payment for specified use· Nov 7, 2024 – Aug 28, 2026· A25AV00050
  5. ADD FUNDS TO BUG O NAY GE SHIG SCHOOL 2025-2026$7.2M
    15.046 · Administrative Cost Grants for Indian Schools· Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education· Direct payment for specified use· Aug 6, 2025 – Jun 8, 2026· A25AV00931
  6. SELF-GOVERNANCE COMPACTS FY 2026 CR1 (@33.42%) TPA BASE DISTRIBUTION.$5.9M
    15.022 · Tribal Self-Governance· Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education· Direct payment for specified use· Nov 24, 2025 – Aug 25, 2026· A26AV00054

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2021–FY2027.

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $1.3M (6 subawards)

4 primes

  1. NATIONAL FUND FOR EXCELLENCE IN AMERICAN INDIAN ED$602K48%
    WASHINGTON, DC · 1 subaward
  2. MN DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES$476.9K38%
    SAINT PAUL, MN · 2 subawards
  3. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE MINNESOTA$146.8K12%
    SAINT PAUL, MN · 2 subawards
  4. MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH$40K3.2%
    SAINT PAUL, MN · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $2M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $2.2M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $3.6M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $5.7M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $4.3M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $1.3M received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

10 companies · $19.1M reported

  1. MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES$15.7M
    SAINT PAUL, MN · 80 subawards
  2. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE MINNESOTA$931.4K
    SAINT PAUL, MN · 43 subawards
  3. EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA$708.9K
    SAINT PAUL, MN · 1 subaward

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 5 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. BEAUMONT RICE MILLS, INC$5M
    BEAUMONT, TX · 88% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAgricultural Marketing Service · Grain and oilseed milling
  2. CHASITY PRITCHETT, LLC$5.2M−100% in FY2026
    CHESAPEAKE, VA · 88% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAgricultural Marketing Service · Grain and oilseed milling
  3. WHITE EARTH MARKET, LLC$6M−33% in FY2026
    WHITE EARTH, MN · 88% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAgricultural Marketing Service · Grain and oilseed milling

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Matched organizations

  • Leech Lake Band of OjibweAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$120K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$420K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$120K
    4 reports
  2. 2024$120K
    4 reports
  3. 2025$120K
    4 reports
  4. 2026$60K
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Indian and Native American affairs14 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES14 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE14 reports
  3. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)11 reports
  4. Interior - Dept of (DOI)11 reports
  5. Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)8 reports
  6. Treasury - Dept of4 reports
  7. Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS)3 reports
  8. Transportation - Dept of (DOT)2 reports
  9. U.S. Forest Service2 reports
  10. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)1 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. Mapetsi Policy Group$420K
    14 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.