Native Village Of Point Hope

Native Village of Point Hope, a federally recognized Indian tribe headquartered in Point Hope, Alaska, is a tribal government recipient of federal grants focused on aging services, environmental capacity building, broadband infrastructure, and community development. The tribe does not hold federal contracts or serve as a prime contractor; its federal footprint is exclusively grant-based, with the tribe acting as a prime recipient on 63 of 64 recent awards and as a sub-recipient on one environmental justice project.

The tribe's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living, which accounts for 41 of 56 awards listed in the top-customer block (88% coverage) across recurring formula grants under the Older Americans Act and related caregiving programs. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Housing and Urban Development Public and Indian Housing Office round out the active grantor set. The bulk of the award portfolio consists of formula grants with multi-year terms, including three annual allocations from Administration for Community Living running through March 2029: OAA Title VI Part A (grants for Native Americans), OAA Title VI Part C (Native American caregiver support), and OAA Nutrition Services Incentive Program. Concurrent with these recurring aging-services grants, the tribe received a $195,521 formula grant from the Department of Energy (CFDA 81.254, Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience program) awarded August 13, 2024, to improve electric grid resilience and climate adaptation for the remote community through April 2032. The tribe also holds an EPA Region 10 project grant (awarded October 1, 2024, completing September 30, 2026) to develop tribal environmental capacity and an EPA Tribal Environmental Plan, focused on subsistence research, mining oversight, and local regulatory participation. A Treasury Department Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund award (May 30, 2023, through December 31, 2026) supports broadband infrastructure deployment meeting 100 Mbps symmetrical speeds to enable remote work, education, and health monitoring. Additionally, the tribe received a Department of Housing and Urban Development Indian Community Development Block Grant (December 17, 2021, through September 30, 2027) for community development purposes. The tribe's single sub-award (May 6, 2026) is a Thriving Communities subaward from Philanthropy Northwest, focused on environmental justice and pollution abatement within the Point Hope community. Activity has been episodic — four awards in 2021, one in 2022, five in 2023, three in 2024, and four in 2026 — with four awards reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Combined dollars obligated across all sixty-four awards total $21.7 million.