Copper River Native Association

Copper River Native Association, a tribally owned firm headquartered in Glennallen, Alaska, acts as a federal grant recipient delivering health, behavioral health, public safety, environmental, and youth services to Alaska Native communities in the Copper River region. The organization operates exclusively as a prime recipient on federal grants (97% of awards) across the Administration for Community Living, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Department of Justice, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Agriculture, with no federal contract prime or subcontract footprint. As a tribally owned entity serving the Ahtna Dene and five related Ahtna tribes, Copper River Native Association qualifies for federal set-asides and programs targeting Native American organizations.

The capability portfolio centers on delivering integrated health and social services through grant funding. Representative work includes a $1.79 million Administration for Native Americans grant (CFDA 93.612) awarded in September 2025 to establish licensed early childhood care and education incorporating Ahtna language and traditions, serving up to 24 children ages 0–5 annually over three years from the Glennallen facility. Copper River Native Association received a $1.8 million Bureau of Justice Assistance Tribal Justice Assistance grant (CFDA 16.596, obligated October 2025) to construct a prefabricated steel public safety facility in Glennallen with office spaces, training room, equipment maintenance shop, and two officer housing units for the Ahtna Dene Public Safety Program. A $499,509 Victims of Crime grant (CFDA 16.841, awarded October 2025) funds expansion of culturally responsive victim services for domestic violence and child abuse across six Ahtna communities through October 2028, delivering counseling, case management, victim navigation, and integrated behavioral health support. Additional work spans opioid response programming, environmental site assessment and cleanup under EPA Brownfields and GAP programs, rural healthcare expansion, EMS training and capacity building, and older adult nutrition services under Older Americans Act formula grants from the Administration for Community Living.

Customer concentration reflects the organization's focus on health and human services grant recipients. The top four federal agencies account for 47% of awards by count: the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living leads with 22 awards, followed by the Administration for Children and Families (14 and 9 awards across two line items), and the Environmental Protection Agency with 10 awards. The combined obligated value across all 155 awards totals $65.2 million, with consistent annual award volume holding at 7 to 10 awards per year between 2022 and 2025. Seven awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, representing recompete opportunity. Subgrant activity is minimal—the organization acts as a sub-recipient on three collaborative projects: a fish passage restoration workforce development subaward from the Copper River Watershed Project (May 2026), a Thriving Communities environmental justice project subaward from Philanthropy Northwest (September 2025), and two CDC diabetes and cardiovascular disease prevention subawards from the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (March 2024), plus a climate change coordination role under a University of Alaska Fairbanks grant (March 2023).