Nulato Tribal Council

Nulato Tribal Council, doing business as Native Village Of Nulato, is a federally recognized Alaska Native tribal government that receives federal grant funding as a recipient (100% of recent awards) across infrastructure, public safety, environmental, and community-development programs, with no federal contracting footprint. The tribal council operates from Nulato, Alaska, and competes exclusively in full-and-open grant programs available to tribal entities and local governments, without set-aside contracting activity.

The Nulato Tribal Council's grant portfolio spans twenty-five distinct federal agencies and reflects diversified infrastructure and community-service priorities. Top funding sources by award count over recent years include the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (14 awards), the Department of Housing and Urban Development Public and Indian Housing Office (10 awards), and the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (9 awards), accounting for 58% of recent awards. The tribal council has obligated approximately $35 million across all awards since 2006, with recent activity concentrated in transportation, port development, and public safety initiatives. The Federal Highway Administration is the largest funding source, delivering recurring project grants under the Tribal Transportation Program (CFDA 20.289) and the Highway Planning and Construction program (CFDA 20.205); recent awards include $3.05 million (March 2026) and $525 thousand (June 2025) for Nulato village transportation infrastructure, road construction, and maintenance. The Maritime Administration awarded $3.998 million (July 2025) under the National Infrastructure Investments program (CFDA 20.933) for planning, permitting, and engineering design of commercial port development, bank armoring on the Yukon River, and dock facilities in Mukluk Slough, with completion targeted for September 2028. The Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services awarded $554.4 thousand (October 2023) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) to hire tribal police officers and support community policing capacity through September 2028.

The Nulato Tribal Council's activity trajectory shows sporadic award flow — eight awards in 2023, four in 2024, five in 2025, and two in the first quarter of 2026 — with eight awards facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Beyond transportation and port development, the council manages grants for domestic violence shelter and supportive services ($389.664 thousand block grant through September 2025 from HHS Administration for Children and Families), wildfire hazard mitigation through fuel-break maintenance and defensible-space construction ($235.45 thousand cooperative agreement with the Bureau of Land Management through March 2026), environmental program capacity-building ($167.5 thousand cooperative agreement with EPA Region 10 through September 2026), and tribal library technology center installation for cultural preservation ($122.5 thousand project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services through February 2026). The council also received a $440.718 thousand project grant (May 2025) from the Denali Commission for boat garage installation, completing September 2026, and $320 thousand from the Department of Transportation Rural and Tribal Assistance Pilot Program (CFDA 20.943) for small port development project planning and design through May 2026. The tribal council does not hold federal contracts, IDVs, GWACs, or BPAs and does not function as a subcontractor to federal primes; its federal footprint is exclusively grant recipient activity at the tribal-government level.