Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc.

Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc., an Alaska Native Corporation and tribal government organization headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit recipient of federal grants across violence against women services, behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment, child welfare, education, and workforce development. The organization operates as a prime grant recipient (90% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient on pass-through grants from state and federal agencies, with no federal contract or IDV activity in the source data.

Cook Inlet Tribal Council's federal footprint is dominated by grant funding from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 61% of recent awards, with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) anchoring the portfolio across multiple funding lines (87 awards), followed by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (38 awards), additional ACF programs (31 awards), and further ACF funding (23 awards), and the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (22 awards). The combined potential value across all 330 awards in the source data totals $10 thousand, though the organization has obligated $467.2 million across its award portfolio—indicating substantial real invoiced activity masked by a potential-value reporting gap in the source data. This concentration reflects Cook Inlet Tribal Council's core identity as a comprehensive social services provider to Alaska Native and American Indian communities in Southcentral Alaska, not a federal contractor.

Cook Inlet Tribal Council's recent grant work spans behavioral health and opioid response, victim services, early childhood education, and tribal sovereignty. Representative prime grants include a $500 thousand cooperative agreement from the Office on Violence Against Women (awarded August 2026) for the Alaska Special Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction Technical Assistance Project, which provides training and technical assistance to Alaska tribes planning or exercising special tribal criminal jurisdiction under VAWA 2022 (CFDA 16.526); a $999 thousand Cooperative Agreement from the Administration for Children and Families for the Victims of Human Trafficking in Native Communities Demonstration program serving Alaska Native youth ages up to 25, with Covenant House Alaska as a sub-recipient (October 2025); a $1 million Project Grant from the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration for workforce development and community enhancement initiatives (July 2025); and a $527 thousand Project Grant from the Office on Violence Against Women's Legal Assistance for Victims program to provide comprehensive legal services to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking survivors across Alaska (November 2025, CFDA 16.524). Cook Inlet Tribal Council also holds multiple active Tribal Opioid Response grants from SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, including a five-year Strategic Prevention Framework award (September 2024) and a residential treatment expansion award (September 2024) serving the Anchorage metropolitan statistical area.

The organization's sub-recipient activity is primarily pass-through from Alaska state agencies. Cook Inlet receives recurring Child and Adult Care Food Program funding (meals and cash-in-lieu) from the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development multiple times per year, and holds sub-awards for Native Family Assistance and community-based behavioral health treatment referrals from the State of Alaska Department of Health. The organization is named in sub-awards from the Alaska Department of Military and Veteran's Affairs related to disaster recovery (FEMA).

Activity has fluctuated year over year—20 awards in 2022, 15 in 2023, 10 in 2024, 21 in 2025, and 15 in 2026—with 23 awards (precise dollar magnitude not specified in source) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore subject to recompete. Cook Inlet Tribal Council operates a named subsidiary, Clare Swan Early Learning Center, a nonprofit American Indian-owned entity, indicating early childhood education integration into the broader service delivery structure. The organization's grant portfolio is fundamentally focused on tribal self-determination, victim advocacy, behavioral health capacity-building, and culturally specific service delivery for Alaska Native populations, with no evidence of federal contract competition or commercial procurement involvement in the recent award record.