Kodiak Area Native Association

Kodiak Area Native Association, a tribally governed Alaska Native health and social services organization headquartered in Kodiak, Alaska, operates as a prime recipient of federal grants focused on health, behavioral health, elder services, family support, environmental protection, and community development across ten federally recognized tribes in the Kodiak region. KANA is not a federal contractor; the organization functions exclusively as a federal grant recipient, with 92 percent of its 362 awards coming as prime grants and 8 percent as sub-recipient positions under state and tribal prime grantees.

KANA serves approximately 5,700 Alaska Native and American Indian residents under authority of P.L. 93-638, the Indian Self-Determination Act, operating through resolutions from nine regional tribal governments. Founded in 1966, the organization has built a multiprogram footprint spanning primary medical, dental, and behavioral health services; family welfare and child protection; elder services and nutrition; substance use and suicide prevention; victim services; environmental monitoring and waste management; and workforce development. The organization received 362 awards totaling $214.3 million in obligated funding as of the source date, with annual award activity spanning from 1990 through September 2026 and peaking at 24 awards in 2023.

Customer concentration reflects KANA's role as a Title VI recipient under the Older Americans Act and a direct-service provider to federal health and family-support programs. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 60 percent of awards: the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (72 awards), HHS Administration for Community Living (47 and 44 awards across distinct programs), and HHS Public Health Service (19 awards). Recent representative grant work includes a $950,000 Office on Violence Against Women Rural Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking grant (October 2025–September 2028) supporting victim advocacy, counseling, and crisis intervention; a $528,000 EPA Region 10 Indian Environmental General Assistance Program award (October 2025–September 2027) for environmental office operations, water quality and harmful algal bloom monitoring, and solid waste management capacity building; and a $386,226 HHS Administration for Community Living Elder Justice Act cooperative agreement (September 2025–September 2027) establishing a multidisciplinary elder abuse case review team and training service providers on elder abuse prevention. KANA also holds recurring formula grants under Older Americans Act Title VI programs (Part A, Part C caregiving support, and Nutrition Services Incentive), MIPPA mineral rights protection, family violence prevention and services, child welfare social services, tribal opioid response, special diabetes program for Indians, and workforce innovation and opportunity act youth programming. Additional grants support economic development planning across six Kodiak archipelago villages, solid waste infrastructure and recycling, harmful algal bloom monitoring and shellfish testing, farm-to-school programs, consolidated clinic facility design, library cultural revitalization, and public safety community policing equipment and training.

Sub-recipient positions track through Alaska state agencies and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, with representative sub-awards including workforce and youth development passthrough from the State of Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development; WIC nutrition program administration from the State Department of Health; early intervention and infant learning programs from state health authorities; harmful algal bloom research and environmental technician deployment through University of Alaska Fairbanks; and colorectal cancer screening and epidemiologic partnership work through the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. Fifteen awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete opportunity in existing program areas. KANA competes within tribally reserved and set-aside funding streams designed exclusively for federally recognized Indian tribes; the organization does not compete in full-and-open federal contracting.