Organized Village Of Kake

Organized Village Of Kake, doing business as Keex-Kwaan, is a federally recognized Tlingit tribal government located in Kake, Alaska (population fewer than 600) that receives federal grants as a prime recipient to deliver community development, public safety, cultural preservation, and environmental management services to tribal members in this remote Southeast Alaska village. The tribe does not hold federal contracts or sit on contract vehicles; all federal activity is grant-funded and recipient-driven. Kake is accessible only by boat or small plane and sits in the Tongass National Forest on Kupreanof Island.

The tribe's federal grant footprint spans thirty-two distinct grantor agencies and 156 total awards (154 as prime recipient, 2 as sub-recipient of grant awards), with combined potential value of $1.2 million and combined obligated dollars of $52.4 million — a ratio indicating substantial multi-year formula and block grant activity. Activity has remained roughly flat over the past five years (7 to 9 awards annually), with seven awards reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore facing renewal or continuation decisions in that window.

Customer concentration sits with federal domestic agencies. The top five grantor agencies by award count are the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living (18 awards, including Older Americans Act Title VI Native American grants and OAA nutrition and caregiver-support formula grants); the National Park Service National Office (11 awards related to historic preservation and tribal historic preservation office operations); the Institute of Museum and Library Services (11 awards for library services, archives, and cultural programming at the Charles "Topsy" Johnson Tribal Library and Archive); the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Education (9 awards); and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (multiple awards for tribal court development, justice system planning, and victim services). By potential value, the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 10–Alaska Region leads with six awards totaling $864 thousand, primarily watershed restoration and forestry partnerships.

Capability framing derives entirely from grant-funded work rather than contracted service delivery. Representative recent prime-recipient activity includes a $732,883 Administration for Native Americans grant (awarded September 2025, completion September 2028) to establish and operate the Keku Furs Tannery, a year-round commercial operation processing sea otter hides for traditional hunters and artisans throughout Southeast Alaska, projected to employ two full-time tribal citizens and up to twenty-eight part-time residents; a $546,353 Bureau of Justice Assistance Tribal Youth Program grant (October 2025 through September 2030) supporting youth mentoring, after-school tutoring, STEM programming, cultural activities with elders, and mental health counseling; a $810,000 Office on Violence Against Women continuation grant (October 2025 through September 2028) to expand domestic violence support groups, community training, and outreach addressing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in partnership with AWARE; a $1.235 million Bureau of Justice Assistance Tribal Justice Assistance grant (October 2024 through September 2029) to renovate a five-thousand-square-foot tribally owned building to create a permanent tribal court space with courtroom, judge's chambers, administrative offices, and waiting area; and a $470,129 Bureau of Justice Assistance grant (October 2023 through September 2028) to establish a tribal court system, develop tribal codes, and add staffing. Additional work spans environmental management capacity-building under the EPA Indian Environmental General Assistance Program ($133,995, October 2025 through September 2026), watershed restoration and kelp mariculture feasibility under the Department of Agriculture Forest Service ($206,503.75 cooperative agreement, September 2024 through December 2027), library services and tribal archival preservation through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, historic preservation office operations under National Park Service Historic Preservation Fund grants, Native American youth mental health and cultural programming under SAMHSA, and victim services under the Office for Victims of Crime Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Program. As a sub-recipient, the tribe received a feasibility-study sub-award from the Southeast Conference in 2024 for a mariculture program; no contract sub-awards are present in the source.

Organized Village Of Kake operates exclusively as a tribal government grantee and does not compete for federal contracts, hold contract vehicles, or participate in set-aside programs — its federal activity is limited to grant awards directed at tribal governance, community services, and cultural preservation within Kake and, where applicable, to regional Indigenous networks in Southeast Alaska. The tribe's two sub-recipient grants link it to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the Southeast Conference on specific natural-resource and economic-development initiatives.