Hoonah Indian Association

Hoonah Indian Association, the federally recognized tribal government of the Huna Tlingit Tribe in Hoonah, Alaska, operates as a tribally owned firm and self-certified small disadvantaged business, receiving federal grants as prime recipient across natural resource management, community services, and infrastructure programs. The organization does not hold prime contracts and does not sit on federal contract vehicles; its federal footprint is entirely grant-based, with 99% of awards in prime recipient status.

Hoonah Indian Association's capability portfolio centers on subsistence fisheries management, stream and habitat restoration, tribal community services, and infrastructure development in Southeast Alaska. Recent representative work includes a five-year cooperative agreement with the Forest Service (Region 10 - Alaska Region) beginning June 2026 to monitor sockeye salmon escapement and water conditions on Neva Lake in partnership with a co-manager, supporting subsistence food security for Alaska Natives; a $1.585 million IIJA-funded cooperative agreement with the USDA Forest Service (awarded April 2024, completing April 2029) for the Game Creek Restoration Project encompassing revegetation and habitat restoration; and a $617,631 three-year project grant from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (October 2025 through September 2028, CFDA 16.587) to strengthen tribal justice interventions, victim services, transitional housing, and legal assistance addressing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and stalking in the tribal community.

Customer concentration is diffuse across federal agencies supporting rural tribal communities. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 46% of recent awards and include the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living (40 combined awards across two program lines), the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (13 awards), and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 10-Alaska Region (12 awards, $845 thousand combined potential value). The Forest Service ranks highest by combined potential value at $845 thousand across 12 awards, reflecting Hoonah's active engagement in ecosystem restoration and fisheries monitoring under IIJA funding. The organization does not concentrate work with a single customer; instead, it draws formula and project grants from age-and-disability services, transportation, natural resources, justice, and child care grantors.

Hoonah Indian Association's activity shows moderate recent volume with decline in 2025-2026 relative to 2024. The past five years yielded ten awards in 2022, nine in 2023, thirteen in 2024, seven in 2025, and five in 2026 (through June). Combined potential value across 169 awards totals $1.5 million, though combined dollars obligated across the portfolio reach $33.7 million, indicating that invoiced expenditures substantially exceed line-item potential values — a pattern characteristic of long-running formula grants and multi-year cooperative agreements where work is performed against prior-year obligations rather than current-year award ceilings. Ten awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure across victim services, child care, and fisheries programs. The organization also serves as a sub-recipient on one grant: a biocultural adaptation research project under the Rand Corporation (awarded November 2024) examining resource management traditions under climate-change scenarios.

Hoonah Indian Association's federal grant portfolio spans six cabinet departments and the Administration for Community Living. Recent formula and project grants include recurring Older Americans Act awards (CFDA 93.044, 93.045, 93.053) from the Administration for Community Living supporting Native American caregiver services and nutrition programs; recurring Federal Highway Administration Tribal Transportation Program grants (CFDA 20.205) for transportation infrastructure in Hoonah; Office of Child Care child-care development block grant awards (CFDA 93.575 and supplemental CCDBG funding); Office on Violence Against Women discretionary grants for tribal governments (CFDA 16.587) and continuation awards; Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside project grants (CFDA 16.841, $229,973 awarded January 2025); Community Oriented Policing Services equipment and training grants (CFDA 16.710, $597,529 awarded October 2024); and Bureau of Justice Assistance Tribal Youth Program formula grants (CFDA 16.731) for juvenile delinquency prevention. Environmental and natural-resource grants include USDA Forest Service IIJA Restoration/Revegetation cooperative agreements (CFDA 10.717); Interior Business Center and Fish and Wildlife Service cooperative agreements for subsistence salmon assessment, monitoring, and habitat restoration; National Park Service cultural resource stewardship cooperative agreements supporting co-management of Glacier Bay National Park; Denali Commission infrastructure grants (CFDA 90.100); EPA Region 10 environmental capacity-building grants addressing harmful algal blooms and water quality monitoring; and Department of the Interior Tribal Climate Resilience project grants (CFDA 15.156). Work is performed in Hoonah and across the Huna Tlingit tribal homeland, including Tongass National Forest and Glacier Bay National Park, with administrative oversight at the tribal government office in Hoonah, Alaska.