Gambell Native Village Of

Gambell Native Village Of, doing business as I R A Council, is a federally recognized Alaska Native tribe operating as a grant recipient (93% of recent federal awards) across aging services, environmental remediation, and community infrastructure programs, with no contracting prime footprint. The entity is headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana and competes for federal funding as a tribal government under Native American set-aside streams rather than as a commercial contractor.

The vendor's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward aging and community-support funding. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living accounts for 32 of the entity's 57 total awards (56% of recent awards) through repeating formula grants under the Older Americans Act Title VI, Part A (grants for Native Americans), the OAA Nutrition Services Incentive Program for Native Americans, and OAA Title VI Part C (Native American caregivers support). The Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Education provides 7 awards, the National Science Foundation 4 awards, and the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers 4 awards. Three additional federal agencies complete the active set. The potential-value ranking mirrors the award-count distribution — dollar magnitudes are not materially differentiated across the top-tier customer set.

Recent prime grant work spans aging services, environmental management, infrastructure resilience, and climate adaptation. Representative awards include three Administration for Community Living formula grants (FY2026 Older Americans Act Title VI Part A, OAA Nutrition Services Incentive Program, and OAA Title VI Part C), all awarded April 1, 2026 with completion dates of March 31, 2029; a $134,000 EPA Region 10 Indian Environmental General Assistance Program (CFDA 66.926) project grant (October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026) supporting environmental capacity-building, solid waste management planning, and community outreach; a $743,108.50 Department of Defense Native American Lands Environmental Mitigation Program cooperative agreement (September 26, 2025 through September 24, 2027) funding environmental remediation and restoration on Defense-affected tribal lands in Gambell, Alaska; and an August 16, 2024 Department of Energy Bipartisan Infrastructure Law formula grant for electric-grid resilience (completion April 30, 2032). A Treasury Department Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund formula grant (May 30, 2023 through December 31, 2026) supports broadband infrastructure deployment at 100 Mbps symmetrical speeds to enable remote work, education, and health monitoring.

As a subrecipient, the entity receives research funding through University of Alaska Fairbanks and Arizona State University. Gambell Native Village participates as a sub-recipient in the Alaska Coastal Cooperative (funded through NSF awards to UAF in January 2026, July 2025, and April 2024) and in Arizona State's NNA Track 1 Arctic Robust Communities collaborative research award (July 2024). Activity volume has been sparse and episodic — one award in 2022, five in 2023, three each in 2024 and 2025, and four in the first quarter of 2026. Three awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months.