Nenana Native Association

Nenana Native Association, doing business as Nenana Native Village, is a federally recognized Alaska Native tribe and tribal government headquartered in Fairbanks, Alaska, that acts as a prime recipient of federal grants focused on community infrastructure, environmental management, broadband connectivity, and social services for its rural tribal members. The organization competes exclusively under tribal set-asides and formula allocations; no federal contracts are present in its portfolio.

Nenana Native Association's capability footprint centers on community development and infrastructure delivery in rural Alaska. Recent representative work includes a $249,863 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service (CFDA 10.720) awarded September 2025 for comprehensive wildfire mitigation and risk reduction strategies in wildland-urban interface communities, encompassing prescribed-burn planning, ignition reduction, structure protection, landscape fuel management, and post-fire recovery planning. The organization received a $973,500 Cooperative Agreement from the Environmental Protection Agency (CFDA 66.920) in June 2024 under the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling program to purchase waste-management equipment—forklift, landing craft, trucks, trailers, and containers—to enhance solid waste and recycling collection, create six part-time jobs, and reduce environmental contamination from illegal dumping. On broadband infrastructure, Nenana Native Association secured a large Project Grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration in February 2025 to deploy high-speed fiber connectivity (minimum 100 Mbps download / 20 Mbps upload) serving 258 households (144 unserved, 114 underserved), 30 businesses, and eight community anchor institutions, with strategic workforce development generating 31 jobs including 13 for Alaska Native individuals. Earlier, the Bureau of Indian Affairs funded a $139,638 feasibility study (CFDA 15.032) in May 2023 to assess fiber-network deployment risks and design optimization for the community. Library and cultural services include a $55,000+ annual Native American Library Services Basics Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded August 2026 to sustain library operations, expand archival services, acquire materials, and provide community programming. Nenana Native Association also received a Project Grant from the Office of Victims of Crime (Tribal Victims Services Set-Aside formula, TVSSA) in October 2023 for victim-services delivery aligned with tribal community values, as well as Department of Energy formula funding (September 2023) for electric-grid resilience and an EPA environmental-planning grant (October 2023) to re-establish an environmental office and waste-management program with community outreach.

Customer concentration reflects tribal and federal grant-distribution patterns. The top five funding agencies account for 64% of awards: the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (15 awards across two program lines), the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (9 awards), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (5 awards), the Environmental Protection Agency (3 awards), and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Combined dollar volume across all 50 awards is $63.4 million. Five awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore face recompete exposure. The organization acts as a prime recipient on 49 of 50 awards (98%) and appears as a subrecipient on one grant sub-award from the State of Alaska related to renovation and construction of a health and wellness complex. No parent contract vehicles, IDIQs, or GWACs are present in the portfolio; all work flows through federal direct grant awards or formula allocations.