Village Of Aniak

Village Of Aniak, a federally recognized tribal government located in Aniak, Alaska, is a federal grant recipient that administers multi-agency grants as a prime grantee serving a Yup'ik community of approximately 526 tribal members in western Alaska. The Village operates exclusively as a grant recipient (99% prime awards) with no federal contract prime activity and no seats on contract vehicles; its federal footprint comprises 71 awards since 2005, with $12.7 million in combined obligations obligated across 19 distinct federal agencies.

Village Of Aniak's customer concentration centers on mandatory grant programs administered by HHS and library-focused grants. The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families leads the award count at 24 awards, driven primarily by recurring formula grants under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP, CFDA 93.568) and supplemental energy-assistance block grants running across two-year cycles. The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science and the Institute of Museum and Library Services together account for 18 awards focused on library services and operations, including recurring Project Grants for Native American Library Services acquisition of materials, staff wages, and community programming. These two customer streams account for approximately 72% of the award count. The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime provides a smaller but sustained stream of formula-based Project Grants under the Tribal Victim Services Set-Aside Program (CFDA 16.841), with three awards visible in the recent pipeline (Jan 1, 2023 through Dec 31, 2027; Jan 1, 2024 through Dec 31, 2025; and Jan 1, 2025 through Dec 31, 2026). The Environmental Protection Agency and its Region 10 office support environmental capacity-building and community wildfire protection planning.

Recent grant work spans community infrastructure, victim services, and energy assistance. Concrete examples include a $221,659 Project Grant from the Federal Transit Administration (CFDA 20.509) awarded December 9, 2025, establishing scheduled public transit service in Aniak via an ADA-compliant all-wheel-drive van with studded snow tires, serving the airport, clinic, grocery store, tribal offices, school, and riverboat landing through October 15, 2026; a $134,000 Project Grant from EPA Region 10 (CFDA 66.926) under the Indian Environmental General Assistance Program (Oct 1, 2025 through Sep 30, 2026) supporting environmental staff technical training, solid waste management strategy implementation, and air quality enhancement; a $217,038 Project Grant from the USDA Forest Service (CFDA 10.720) for Community Wildfire Defense Grants supporting a Community Wildfire Protection Plan and hazardous fuel reduction (Sep 26, 2023 through Mar 20, 2028); and a $378,215 Formula Grant from HHS Office of Community Services under LIHEAP (CFDA 93.568) providing direct utility bill assistance, emergency energy crisis intervention, and weatherization improvements for approximately 526 eligible tribal households (Oct 1, 2025 through Sep 30, 2027). Village Of Aniak also receives a Department of Energy formula grant for Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates (HEAR) under IRA Provision 50122 (awarded Jan 1, 2025, currently conditional pending award negotiation, through Dec 31, 2029).

Activity has remained modest and stable, ranging from four to seven awards annually over the past five years, with nine awards (including LIHEAP cycles and victim services grants) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The Village operates as a grant administrator without contractor partnerships or sub-award activity in the source data, except for a single sub-grant award from The Trust For Public Land (Feb 13, 2026) for forested community school yard development. Grant administration focuses on direct service delivery to the tribal community, compliance reporting, and capacity-building through EPA and DOJ formula programs that prioritize tribal environmental and victim services infrastructure.