Chilkoot Indian Association

Chilkoot Indian Association, a federally recognized Alaska Native tribal government based in Haines, Alaska, receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient across community development, environmental stewardship, cultural preservation, and aging services programs. The organization does not hold federal contracts or contract vehicles; its $106.8 million federal footprint since 2005 consists entirely of grant receipts from twenty-seven customer agencies, with no subcontracting footprint (116 of 117 awards are prime grants).

Chilkoot represents approximately 1,905 Tlingit and Haida community members and operates across a diversified grant portfolio anchored by formula and project grants addressing community infrastructure, subsistence resource management, and social services. Recent capability work spans port and dock infrastructure planning and design, environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring for fish and wildlife populations, tribal broadband connectivity, transportation infrastructure funding, aging services nutrition and caregiver support, library operations and collections, historic preservation of tribal structures, air quality monitoring, and marine diesel engine replacement for tribal member commercial fishing vessels. Representative awards include a $52.86 million Department of Transportation Maritime Administration grant (Feb. 2026) for environmental review, permitting, and engineering design of an intermodal terminal at Haines port; a $2.82 million Maritime Administration BUILD grant (June 2026) for dock reconstruction and parking analysis at Portage Cove; a $376,034 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Tribal Wildlife Grants award (Jan. 2025) for establishment of an environmental DNA laboratory to monitor fish and wildlife populations; and a $2.45 million National Telecommunications and Information Administration Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program grant (Jan. 2025) for broadband service delivery in partnership with Alaska Power & Telephone.

Customer concentration sits with federal agencies serving tribal, infrastructure, aging, and cultural-heritage missions. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living leads by award count with eighteen grants (formula grants for older Americans aging services under Title VI, OATA, OANT, OATC programs). The Department of Housing and Urban Development Public and Indian Housing Office places seventeen awards (Indian Community Development Block Grants, including emergency imminent-threat funding for a community greenhouse damaged in a December 2025 snowstorm). The Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration anchors sixteen awards (Tribal Transportation Program formula grants totaling $1.17 million for FY 2026 operations). The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science and the Institute of Museum and Library Services together account for twenty-one awards supporting library operations and materials acquisition. These five agencies account for 62 percent of recent awards. The portfolio spans diverse infrastructure and community-development grantor agencies including the Department of Agriculture Forest Service (eulachon population monitoring), the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 (environmental and air quality monitoring), the National Park Service (historic preservation), and the Administration for Native Americans (language and land-use initiatives).

Activity volume has oscillated moderately—seven awards in 2022, eleven in 2023, nine in 2024, six in 2025, and nine through August 2026—without marked growth trajectory. Seven awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months face recompete or renewal cycles. The organization has received one grant sub-award: a de-obligated Emergency Management Performance Grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (December 2023) with a final award value of $11,881 after recovery of unspent funds.

Chilkoot's mission integrates Tlingit culture and values into community life through programs supporting subsistence practices, environmental stewardship, transportation infrastructure, economic development, and aging-member services, with grant-funded activities performed in Haines and Northern Southeast Alaska.