Assistance program
Tribal Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
$90.1 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Project Grants (Discretionary)
- CFDA number
- 15.066
- What it does
- The BIA Tribal GLRI Program provides financial assistance to Great Lakes tribes to protect, enhance, and restore the Great Lakes. Priority actions are to: identify, protect, conserve, manage, enhance, or restore species or habitat, as well as to build tribal capacity to manage natural resources within the Great Lakes Basin.
- Who benefits
- Federally-recognized Indian Tribes and Native American Organizations authorized by Indian tribal governments
- Who applies
- Federally-recognized Indian Tribes and Native American Organizations authorized by Indian tribal governments
- Authorized by
- Public Law 93-638, Indian Self-determination and Education Assistance Act, as amended; 25 US Code §450f, Self-determination contracts; 25 CFR Part 900, Contracts under the Indian Self-determination and Education Assistance Act
- Program site
- https://www.glri.us/ ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Direct payments
$89.7M
99%
Grants
$483.9K
<1%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments