Native Village Of Fort Yukon

Native Village of Fort Yukon, a federally recognized tribal government located in Fort Yukon, Alaska, is a federal grant recipient operating as a prime recipient across 129 awards (98% of its footprint) in social services, transportation infrastructure, public safety, environmental management, and community development programming. The tribe does not hold prime federal contracts and operates exclusively in the grant space, with no federal contract vehicles or IDVs in its portfolio.

The tribe's grant footprint concentrates heavily in three customer agencies that collectively represent 58% of recent award activity: the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living (19 awards focused on nutrition services and caregiver support under Older Americans Act programs); the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (16 awards supporting the Tribal Transportation Program); and the Department of Housing and Urban Development Public and Indian Housing Office (15 awards for housing and community development). The Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration rounds out the active set with 11 awards for transit operations. Across its 132 total awards (prime and sub), the tribe has worked with 25 distinct federal agencies since 1990, with activity running at four to eleven awards annually over the past five years.

Recent representative grant work spans multiple federal programs. The tribe holds FY2026 formula grants from the Administration for Community Living for nutrition services (CFDA 20.205), caregiver support (OATC), and Title VI Native American grants (OATA), each running through March 2029. Transportation funding flows from the Federal Highway Administration under the Tribal Transportation Program (CFDA 20.205) with awards dating to at least 2022, most recently a $174,232 project grant in May 2025. The Department of Justice has awarded the tribe a $900,000 five-year Tribal Justice Assistance project grant (CFDA 16.596) effective October 2025 through September 2030 to expand tribal court operations, expand victim services, and hire a peace officer. Under the Violence Against Women Discretionary Grants for Indian Tribal Governments program (CFDA 16.587), the tribe received a $750,000 three-year award in October 2025 for domestic violence response, victim services, and missing and murdered Indigenous persons initiatives, implemented in partnership with the Alaska Native Women's Resource Center. The Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service awarded the tribe a $765,347 cooperative agreement (CFDA 10.182) in September 2024 for the Fort Yukon Healthy Foods Distribution Program, targeting 205 food-insecure households through purchases from local and socially disadvantaged producers. The Institute of Museum and Library Services funded a $50,000 project grant (August 2025 through July 2026) for Native American Library Services basics. The tribe also holds a Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund formula grant from the Department of the Treasury (awarded May 2023, completing December 2026) for broadband and critical capital projects, a Department of Energy grid resilience formula grant (CFDA 81.226, September 2023 through April 2028), and a $219,402 Victims of Crime tribal victim services award (CFDA 16.841, January 2025 through December 2026).

The tribe acts as a sub-recipient on three recent awards: two emergency management sub-grants from the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs totaling $3.8 million for tribal hall and building damage recovery (December and November 2025), and a health gap project sub-award from Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (August 2025). Eight grants face completion or recompete within the next twenty-four months. The tribe's grant portfolio reflects direct service delivery and infrastructure management across aging services, transportation, public safety, food security, and community resilience — all directed toward tribal member and Fort Yukon community beneficiaries, with no subawards enumerated in most award descriptions.