Seldovia Village Tribe

Seldovia Village Tribe, doing business as Alaska Tribal Cache, is a federally recognized Indian tribe and self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Seldovia, Alaska that operates as a prime recipient of federal grants (98% of recent awards) across health, social services, infrastructure, and community development programs serving rural and remote Alaska communities. The tribe does not hold federal contracts or compete for procurement; its footprint is exclusively grant-based, anchored in formula and project grants from HHS agencies, the Department of Transportation, and specialized federal programs for tribal governments and Native American populations.

The tribe's grant portfolio spans health services delivery, aging services, energy assistance, public transportation, library and cultural preservation, environmental capacity building, and disaster resilience. Concrete representative work includes FY2026 formula grants from the Administration on Aging for the Older Americans Act Title VI (Grants for Native Americans) and the Nutrition Services Incentive Program, carrying forward from FY2023 awards; a $1.354 million FEMA Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) project grant (ultimate completion November 2025) for hazard mitigation; a $633 thousand congressional directed spending project grant from the Healthcare Systems Bureau (completion September 2026) for Homer Health Center expansion including physical therapy, dental services, and health education space; a $135.374 thousand Institute of Museum and Library Services project grant (completion July 2026) for the Seldovia Storybook project preserving tribal history through elder storytelling; and multiple Federal Transit Administration formula and project grants for the Seldovia Bay Ferry passenger system and the Seldovia passenger ferry dock replacement project. The tribe also operates three Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) under the name SVT Health and Wellness in Seldovia, Homer, and Anchor Point, Alaska, and receives grants from the Bureau of Primary Health Care for behavioral health service expansion, bridge access programming, and health center infrastructure support.

Customer concentration reflects the tribe's role as a direct recipient of federal social services and infrastructure grants rather than a federal contractor. The top five grantor agencies by award count account for 42% of recent awards: the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living (20 awards), HHS Administration for Children and Families (20 awards), the Federal Transit Administration (15 awards), HHS Public Health Service (15 awards), and a second count of HHS Administration for Community Living (15 awards). Award activity shows recent decline—ten awards in 2022, seventeen in 2023, nine in 2024, six in 2025, and two awards in 2026 year-to-date—with twelve awards reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure across aging services, transit, and health infrastructure grants. In its sub-recipient role, the tribe receives pass-through funding from the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium under health grants focused on community health assessment, protective factor building, and epidemiology support; sub-awards date from March 2024 forward.

The tribe's grant activity centers on direct service delivery to tribal members and rural Alaska residents: primary healthcare and behavioral health services at three rural clinics, nutrition and supportive services for older Americans and Alaska Native elders, low-income home energy assistance, public ferry transportation, library and archival services, environmental health and water quality monitoring, and infrastructure resilience. Unlike federal contractors, Seldovia Village Tribe operates as a tribal government entity leveraging formula and project grants to sustain community operations, health systems, and cultural preservation in geographically isolated communities accessible only by air or water.