Native American Connections, Inc.

Native American Connections, Inc., a Phoenix-based nonprofit established in 1972, operates as a prime contractor and grant recipient delivering culturally sensitive behavioral health, substance abuse treatment, and housing services to American Indian and Alaska Native populations through contracts and grants with the Indian Health Service and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The organization holds formal recognition as an Urban Indian Organization by the Indian Health Service since 2018, operates 25 sites across the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, and serves more than 10,000 individuals and families annually.

NAC's federal award footprint splits sharply between two customer agencies. The Indian Health Service holds 48 awards with $39.6 million in combined potential value, primarily through a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $3.415 million (awarded March 30, 2023, extending through March 31, 2028) under which IHS has issued 11 firm fixed-price delivery orders totaling $860 thousand since March 2023 for integrated behavioral health, alcohol and substance abuse residential services, and care coordination. Representative IHS contracts include a $115,385 definitive contract for alcohol and substance abuse services (July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027), a $100,980 delivery order for culturally sensitive integrated behavioral health and inpatient residential services (April 1, 2026), and an $8.451 million definitive contract under the American Rescue Plan Act (May 6, 2022, through February 6, 2026). The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development accounts for 79 awards under the Continuum of Care Program (CFDA 14.267); NAC receives annual project grants ranging from approximately $426,662 to $1.538 million, with recent awards including a $1.538 million grant (November 1, 2025, through October 31, 2026) and a $1.033 million grant (October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026) for permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, and homeless management information systems. These two agencies account for 91% of NAC's recent awards by count. NAC also received a $181,999 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.163) for "Reclaiming the Narrative: Learning the Truth About Indian Boarding Schools in Arizona," a weeklong professional learning workshop based at the Phoenix Indian School Visitor Center (October 1, 2023, through December 31, 2024), and a cooperative agreement from the Indian Health Service for the Special Diabetes Program for Indians running through December 31, 2027.

NAC operates as a prime on 96% of its awards, with limited subcontractor engagement — across SCI-reportable federal service contracts, the vendor performed 100% of contractor hours internally with zero sub-hours share. No subcontracts are named in the source. The vendor holds no positions on government-wide acquisition contracts, multiple-award schedules, or other IDVs beyond the two IHS Indefinite Delivery Contracts. Activity has remained consistent in recent years (nine awards in 2022, peaking at thirteen in 2023, declining to eight in 2025) with ten awards (combined potential value $737 thousand) facing ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and therefore subject to recompete in that window. SCI-reportable invoiced revenue totaled $5.5 million in FY2024 across 45.1 FTEs on federal service contracts, with government-paid median hourly rates around $54.78/hr and senior labor pricing through $65.71/hr; SCI coverage is limited to service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold and excludes goods, products, and grants, so these figures represent a subset of NAC's total federal services and enterprise revenue.