Seldovia Village Tribe

Seldovia Village Tribe, doing business as Alaska Tribal Cache, is a federally recognized Alaska Native tribe based in Seldovia, Alaska, that functions as a grant recipient delivering healthcare, transportation, social services, broadband connectivity, and community development programs to tribal and regional populations across Alaska. The tribe operates as a prime recipient in 98 percent of its federal grant footprint, with no federal contract vehicles or prime contract awards in the source data; instead, it receives formula grants and project grants from federal agencies supporting tribal health, aging services, public transportation, and infrastructure resilience.

The tribe's customer base spans thirty distinct federal agencies, with concentration among health and human services grantors. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living (20 awards), the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (20 awards), and the Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration (16 awards) together account for 42 percent of recent awards. The Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service contributes 15 awards. This concentration reflects the tribe's role as a direct operator of rural health clinics, senior services, and public transit infrastructure rather than a federal contractor.

Recent grant work spans multiple domains. The tribe holds formula and project grants for Older Americans Act Title VI services (Administration on Aging), nutrition services incentive programs (Administration on Aging), Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (Office of Community Services), and public transportation operations including the Seldovia Bay Ferry linking Seldovia and Homer (Federal Transit Administration). Health-focused awards include a $500,000 project grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration under the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program (CFDA 11.029) awarded August 1, 2026, for home networking equipment and subsidized broadband service to 100 tribal households through April 30, 2029; a Special Diabetes Program for Indians cooperative agreement from the Indian Health Service (Office of the Director) beginning January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2027, funding diabetes education and community health coaching; and a behavioral health service expansion project grant from the Bureau of Primary Health Care dated September 1, 2024, through August 31, 2026, supporting mental health and substance abuse treatment. The tribe also received a $1.354 million FEMA Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) project grant (November 3, 2022, through November 2, 2025) and a Homer Health Center expansion project grant from the Denali Commission (April 1, 2023, through June 30, 2026) for construction and renovation of rural health facilities. Library services grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services support the Seldovia Storybook preservation project ($135,374 award, September 1, 2024, through August 31, 2026) and Alaska Native Children's Library development.

The tribe's grant sub-award footprint is minimal (2 percent of total awards, five sub-awards). Sub-recipient relationships are limited to awards from the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, including epidemiology center funding and community health protective-factor programming.

Activity declined year over year across the five-year window: ten awards in 2022, declining to five in 2026. Seven awards are reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing near-term recompete or continuation decision points. Combined obligated dollars across all 204 awards total $126.3 million, with medical-managed healthcare dominating the PSC distribution (15 awards). The tribe does not hold parent federal contract vehicles, GWACs, or BPAs; its federal footprint consists entirely of grant awards with no contracting vehicle participation.